[SandRat]

Getting closer

[Dog Gone]

Let's have a moment of silence.

Okay, done. Where's the champagne?

[Texas Eagle]

Coalition and Iraqi forces killed a wanted extremist with high-level terrorism ties during an early morning raid March 27 near Baghdad's Abu Ghraib district, Multinational Force Iraq officials here announced today.

I don't remember hearing CNN report on this. I must've changed the channel for just a second.

[Marine_Uncle]

Remember your note from last week about a high value target being suspected in the "tent deal". Perhaps this is the goon the sought.

[Grampa Dave]

Great news. This is our official American Forces Press Service.

The delay in publishing this, probably means that DNA was used.

[luvbach1]

If bin Laden is killed and his carcass recovered, we had better put his head on display at the end of a pike at ground zero if we want the event to get publicity.

[Redcloak]

YANTG. (Yet another number three guy)

[texianyankee]

Hallelujah! Great kill.

[rod1]

Is it always obligatory for these guys to have multiple names??

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More details showing support by Saddam for Terrorists :

April 13, 2006
Coalition Forces Kill AQIZ Ambassador

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al-Kurdi also had extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization which spawned the modern terrorist organizations such as Egyptian Islamic Jihad, HAMAS, and al-Qaeda.

Strangely enough, it appears al-Kurdi was detained by the Kurdish Peshmerga in the spring of 2002, prior to the invasion of Iraq, and divulged connection between al-Qaeda and Ansar Al-Islam,and Saddam Hussein:

"Halabja [Northern Iraq] – Local security officials in Al-Suleimaniya warn that some members of 'Ansar Al-Islam' [previously named 'Army of Islam,' i.e. Jund Al-Islam], Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban who were driven out of Afghanistan by Operation Anaconda, have now joined the battle-front in northern Iraq… New information surfaces daily about ties between Ansar Al-Islam, bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. One of the security officials said that the Iraqi government has been providing secret financial support and training to Ansar Al-Islam in order to weaken the Kurdish opposition…" "Some Kurdish commanders are minimizing the danger of Ansar Al-Islam…" "The organization has only a few hundred fighters, but it controls several Kurdish villages in northern Iraq, close to the Iranian border and on the fringes of the area protected by the U.S."

"The information about the ties between Ansar Al-Islam and Al-Qa'ida came from Rafid Ibrahim Fattah {aka Abu Umar al-Kurdi , an Iraqi who was arrested by the forces of Jalal Al-Talabani [in northern Iraq]… He had fled from Baghdad in the mid 1980's and lived in a refugee camp in Tehran…"

Apparently al-Kurdi slipped the Kurdish net and was able to join al-Qaeda's terror campaign in Iraq. al-Kurdi joins the long list of experienced al-Qaeda 'middlemen' killed or captured, such as Suliman Darwish (Syrian), Abdullah al-Rashood (Saudi) and Abu Azzam and Abu Tahla (Iraqis).

By Bill Roggio | Posted April 13, 2006 |