Iraqis kill al-Qaeda lieutenant in Mosul

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[jmc1969]

A lieutenant of al-Qaeda terror boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed by Iraqi security forces in Mosul, the US military said.

Mohammed Salah Sultan, also known as Abu Zubair, was killed on Friday, the US statement said.

The statement said Abu Zubair was a "known member of al-Qaeda in Iraq" and an al-Zarqawi lieutenant who was sought for his role in a July suicide bombing of a police station in Mosul in which five Iraqi police were killed.

Abu Zubair was wearing a suicide pack with explosives when he was killed, the US statement said.

"He was also suspected of resourcing and facilitating suicide bomber attacks against coalition, Iraqi security forces and Iraqi citizens throughout the country," the statement said.

The statement said that last week, US and Iraqi forces captured three bomb makers and six foreign fighters as well as finding and clearing 101 improvised explosive devices in the Mosul area.

[txrangerette]

Biden is politicizing this, as is his want.

It's like setting up a straw man, and then crying out for the world to pay attention while you knock it down.

What is the meaning of his statement? There aren't very many armed forces, in third-world type situations, that could sustain operations totally on their own with absolutely no involvement whatsoever by American forces. So freaking what??? What does that mean??? That they are of little or no use? Absolutely ridiculous.

Fie on Biden and all his ilk. Without the braindead Liberal Media to prop them up, they would melt away(from their politicized terminal stupidity) like the wicked witch of the West in Wizard Of Oz. Oh woe is me, I'm melting, I'm melting! What a world, what a world!

It would be a laugh riot like no other to watch.

[csvset]

Abu Zubair was wearing a suicide pack with explosives when he was killed

I wonder if he was shot in the head?