Posted on 05/08/2005 10:41:42 PM PDT by jmc1969
There will another reason for George Bush and the American led coalition to rejoice in Iraq! It seems Abu Musab al-Zarqawi can be caught any time. He is definitely on the run.
The Iraqi government announced on May 7 that Iraqi security forces captured an aide to the Jordanian-born leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Ghassan al-Rawi was arrested in late April, according to a statement issued by the Iraqi government. Iraqi officials said al-Rawi confessed to meeting al-Zarqawi in January 2005 and provided accommodations for the militant leader for five days. The Iraqi government statement claims that al-Rawi was also involved in the kidnapping of civilians for ransom, and that weapons and vehicles being prepared for suicide bombings were found at his location when he was arrested in the western Iraqi town of Rawa.
Militant leader Amar al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Abbas, was captured May 5 in Baghdad by security forces, Iraqi government officials said May 8. Al-Zubaydi is a key aide to al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who helped plan the April attacks against the Abu Ghraib prison and several other car bomb attacks in Baghdad.
These close aids to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi are providing extremely important information about the al-Zarqawi himself. Several time coalition and Iraqi forces have come very close to capturing al-Zarqawi. But now it seems either he hasd to flee from Iraq or he will be captured.
(Excerpt) Read more at indiadaily.com ...
LOL! When will we catch him? Real soon now!
Before we catch him, it would be a good time to go back to the U.N. and make sure it's OK that we do so. Ya know, take the old "Global Test" and see if France or Germany can help... ;^)
**Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may be caught any time**
Didn't they catch him a few days ago, or was that another one?
I think we are waiting for a first-nuclear strike from Iran or North Korea. We will absorb it, and then level half the world in response.
They caught him before they didn't catch him.
And who is al-Zarqawi?
Aren't we supposed to catch Osama bin-Laden?
Has our WoT failed completely?
We should go first for the big guys, not second and third ranked terrorists.
It's India Daily. Can we trust the source that claims UFO popping out of Himalaya mountains?
**They caught him before they didn't catch him.**
That don't make no sense.
Either they caught someone or they didn't, unless they caught him before and then he escaped. Is that what you mean?
They need to put the word out on the street that at noon May 15th Ghassan al-Rawi will be on the court house steps, available to answer any and all questions from those that have lost loved ones in recent bombings. Ghassan, at this point, states he knows nothing.
What say ya'll?
The War on Terror is bigger than just Al Zarqawi or Bin Laden. They are important, but the victory is in the reformation of the Middle East to no longer give such men safe haven to plan, grow, and operate against us.
Yes, we need to catch Bin Laden. There's the matter of a pound of flesh that he owes us, that he needs to be brought to justice for. Al Zarqawi has a lot to answer for too, but he needs to answer most to the Iraqi people, of whom his followers have killed in large numbers.
Bin Laden will answer for his crimes, but if we go haring after him and ignore the greater war on what Osama has built, then we fail in the long run to secure the peace, and liberate Muslims from the grip of terror that has oppressed them to the point where extremism runs rampant in their communities.
It sounds wierd to say this, but I hope the scenario is with one working nuke, that they fire, and miss. It'd be the kind of funny on par with someone blustering into a gunfight and squeezing on a squib round for the first.
At least until we obliterate them. Then the laughter stops.
Leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, IIRC. He's a pretty big fish.
**Look at the misspelled words and incorrect grammer. I call shenanigans on this "article".**
Don't expect perfect grammar from a tabloid newspaper.
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