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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Eight high-ranking al Qaeda leaders blew themselves up
debka file ^ | 11/20/05 | debka

Posted on 11/20/2005 7:56:48 AM PST by rang1995

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Eight high-ranking al Qaeda leaders blew themselves up after a large American force Sunday noon laid siege to a building in which they were barricaded in Mosul, northern Iraq.

November 20, 2005, 5:19 PM (GMT+02:00)

The US force, backed by helicopters and tanks, was led to the location by an intelligence tip. The troops had evacuated the area and were preparing to storm the building when the terrorists killed themselves.

Some Arab sources report that American unit is now busy trying to identify the 8 bodies, hoping against hope that Abu Musab al Zarqawi is among them. This is not confirmed by US military sources.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alzarqawi; debka; iraq; mosul; terror; terrorists; zarqawi
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To: smug
Focault's Pendulum, you got more toasting to do.

My policy is only to toast when we actually blow their heads off.

Okay...okay....this time I'll make an exception.

Somebody call my job and tell them I probably won't make it in tomorrow..

81 posted on 11/20/2005 10:56:56 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum (I'm not a curmudgeon!!!! I've just been in a bad mood since '73)
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To: Cap Huff

Thanks. Let's keep our fingers crossed and pray this time the speculation turns out to be true. But even if it doesn't, sounds like eight less terrorists are now polluting the world.


82 posted on 11/20/2005 11:10:46 AM PST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Bob from De

I'm very afraid you're right.


83 posted on 11/20/2005 11:14:24 AM PST by skr (Shopping for a tagline that fits or a fitting tagline...whichever I find first.)
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To: Coop

The fact that this story has been out there for at least 12 hours (I saw the WP item about that time - it may have been even a lot longer that 12 hours) and it has not yet been denied suggests that it still being checked out.

DoD has recently been quick to squelch rumors of HVT kills/captures. I don't think this time gap means it is true, but rather it is still not determined that he was NOT in that house.

Z has been talkative in recent weeks:

http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/11/new_zarqawi_tra.html

We'll have a pretty good idea by mid week whether he is still among the living.


84 posted on 11/20/2005 11:18:43 AM PST by Cap Huff
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To: Coop; jmc1969

jmc1969 also makes a good point here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1525620/posts?page=307#307


85 posted on 11/20/2005 11:23:18 AM PST by Cap Huff
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To: Cap Huff
I don't think this time gap means it is true, but rather it is still not determined that he was NOT in that house.

Oh, I agree. It's certainly not confirmed, but I've seen nothing to suggest the rumor is false.

86 posted on 11/20/2005 1:18:20 PM PST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Coop

"Rumor" in common parlance usually suggests grapevine time sources. Based on the AP story on Yahoo here I would think of it now as more a developing unconfirmed story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq


87 posted on 11/20/2005 1:24:44 PM PST by Cap Huff
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To: garyhope
always put "liberal" in quotes, because they are usually anything but truly "liberal". Actually they're usually always intolerant fascists and dictators. Like Teddy for instance

excellent, excellent point; socialists hijacked the word "liberal" long ago.

88 posted on 11/20/2005 2:41:02 PM PST by alrea (Truman, FDR, Kennedy, Reagan & Bush each caused strong economic growth by cutting taxes.)
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To: rang1995

Makes Saddam look even more like a mangy coward the way he was hiding in his spider hole in filth.


89 posted on 11/20/2005 2:54:22 PM PST by fish hawk (I am only one, but I am not the only one.)
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To: Focault's Pendulum
Okay...okay....this time I'll make an exception


In honour off ure idell I 2 haf toest'd .....oal day loong
90 posted on 11/20/2005 7:53:23 PM PST by smug (Tanstaafl)
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