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US military says al-Qaida lieutenant killed in Mosul
Hindustan Times / AP ^ | 8/14/05

Posted on 08/15/2005 6:40:51 AM PDT by Valin

Iraqi security forces in Mosul have killed a lieutenant of al-Qaida terror boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the US military said on Sunday. 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-Qaida 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 further statement said. "He was also suspected of re-sourcing and facilitating suicide bomber attacks against coalition, Iraqi security forces and Iraqi citizens throughout the country," the statement added.

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.


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuzubair; alqaedairaq; enemy; gwot; iraq; killed; oif

1 posted on 08/15/2005 6:40:52 AM PDT by Valin
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To: Valin

99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer on the wall, if one of those bottles would happen to fall there would be .......


2 posted on 08/15/2005 6:46:21 AM PDT by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
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To: Valin

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

Since we had to kill him, I assume there will be no virgins for him.


3 posted on 08/15/2005 6:49:23 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Valin

GREAT NEWS for the USA.

It the resident barking moonbat on Today wearing BLACK by chance.

Libs are probably in mourning over this.


4 posted on 08/15/2005 6:50:14 AM PDT by deadeyedawg (Crush our enemies, listen to their lamentations, and drive them before us!)
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To: Brilliant

5 posted on 08/15/2005 6:52:05 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: Valin
al-Qaida recruiting numbers must be down and dogs must be scarce,
to have an "al-Zarqawi lieutenant" wearing a suicide pack.
6 posted on 08/15/2005 6:55:47 AM PDT by stylin19a (In golf, some are long, I'm "Lama Long")
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To: FormerACLUmember

There had been a nagging thought in the back of my mind about Helen Thomas..."Who does she remind me of?"

When I saw all those faces..."Looks like a bunch of penguins" and then I realized, she looks like THE Penguin from the Batman movie.

Got any pics for "separated at birth" layout?


7 posted on 08/15/2005 6:57:39 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: Valin
Abu Zubair was a "known member of al-Qaida in Iraq" and an al-Zarqawi lieutenant . . .Zubair was wearing a suicide pack with explosives when he was killed

I thought AQ lieutenants sent others out to kill themselves, while they planned and strategized. Must be getting short of volunteer suicide bombers, huh?

8 posted on 08/15/2005 7:04:43 AM PDT by Don Carlos (Me cache en los Moros. (Ancient Spanish curse))
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To: wildbill

OMG! you're right.


9 posted on 08/15/2005 7:08:58 AM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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To: Allegra; Becki; Cap Huff; Dog; Deetes; Gucho; iso; pissant; ravingnutter; Reagan79; SandRat; ...

ping


10 posted on 08/15/2005 7:21:57 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: Valin

Another one bites the dust... I wonder how long Zarqawi's next "lieutenant" will last?


11 posted on 08/15/2005 7:29:26 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; Valin

Wearing a suicide vest? Recruiting must not be going too well.


12 posted on 08/15/2005 8:16:17 AM PDT by meema
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