Posted on 09/26/2005 1:10:12 PM PDT by jmc1969
The No. 2 al Qaeda leader in Iraq was killed Sunday night, U.S. officials say. Abu Azzam, reportedly the deputy to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, was shot during a house rain in Baghdad, according to Pentagon officials.
As the aide to Zarqawi, Azzam was reportedly in control of financing foreign fighters coming into Iraq, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
According to Pentagon officials coalition troops raided the house in response to a tip. When Azzam opened fire, these officials say, he was killed with troops' return fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Oceanview may well be right. Read:
http://billroggio.com/
This was to hot of a tip....it put us real time right into this safe house and caught Azzam flat footed.
Someone in the Zarqawi camp dropped a dime.
Sounds like all chiefs and no Indians to me
(can I say that anymore ? )
Our guys are shredding anyone that bothers to step up and take even part of the lead for AQ in Iraq and my hat is off to them. We seem to be getting more and more good intel from the Iraqi's as time goes by, so life is getting shorter and shorter for the average AQ @ss Munkee.
Thanks to everyone involved
Yeah, but look at all the times Zarqawi has been killed...Everytime these people get reincarnated, they come back as terrorists...What's up with that???
You guys don't understand. There are hundreds TIED for the #2 spot.
I agree with that. this just can't be some "man on the street" tip. like, "oh, I was having coffee with the AQ #2 this morning, he lives right over there". this has to be an insider, or perhaps some careless use of communications.
This A$$hole has more "AIDS" than Arafat
Another one heard from.
on meet the press yesterday, tom friedman from the NYT was on. now I know, he's a liberal. but he made some sanguine comments about this iraq situation - especially in response to Maureen Dowd who was basically saying "we lost". Friedman says that with respect to the political aspect of this, there is one more "cycle" left, one more chance to turn this politically for the administration. I agree with him, and the left is going to spin any troop reductions as a result of a shift as "cut and run".
Wonder what was found at the safehouse this went down at..
Measured in 9mm, 5.56, 12ga., 25mm & .50 caliber is it not, Mmm??
"Why does everytime we kill one of these guys..... the thread turns into a joke!"
Let your heart not be troubled. As long as you know their days are really numbered. Besides a lot of folks perhaps don't know what else to say. We'll go nuts if we had to read long profiles on each goon turned into fertilizer. Perhaps the next number two goon will be removed in a few days a provide more jokes. Z-Mans days are numbered. Of course he would be a damn fool at this point if he actually where moving about Al Anbar, Bibil, or Ninveh. He probably is one miserable bastard sitting at a key board in some run down hotel room in Syria.
how do these guys communicate there amongst themselves to coordinate attacks, planning, the movement of people and material? how do they do it? cell phones and sat phones are too easy to monitor. do they use radios? couriers?
I suspect its done over the net...emails and IM's.
but what is the state of the ISP network inside iraq? there can't be that many access points out of the country, they could all be sniffed.
"the next 6 months are going to be interesting. hopefully things will go well, and if they do, we will start to see troop reductions in 2006. the media will instantly spin it as "cut and run", and alot of freepers are going to buy into that. I am also worried that the administration is not going to do a good job expalaining to americans what is going on."
Along with wisdom, comes a steep price. Much heartache. But for those Freepers who understand the far reaching ramifications you elude to, we just have to bite the bullet, keep those chins up, and move forward.
.....maybe that's what's behind this
The operations continue. The Iraqi, US Army, US Marine intel units continue to become more effecient, more effective, and their G3's more potent. If I was a real betting man and had the bucks to spare, I would venture in six months or less Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi will be captured or killed if he indeed does travel the dangerous roads of Iraq. And whether he is in Iraq or not, his organization will be so decimated that Izzat el-Douri and other Baathist leaders may just write him off as a memory. Assuming they are still walking the earth.
No prob. ;-)
Then again, he could have some up and coming wiz kid that'll help his organization just as easily as some dunce who needs help tying his shoelaces.
Thinning their ranks is a good thing, but the media's portrayal of the significance of who they nailed is dubious at best.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.