Posted on 05/30/2006 11:10:47 AM PDT by Dog
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The Iraqi government said Tuesday it has captured a key terror suspect who allegedly confessed to hundreds of beheadings. Ahmed Hussein Dabash Samir al-Batawi was arrested by a terrorist combat unit on Monday in Baghdad, according to the prime minister's office.
The unit also seized documents, cell phones and computers that contained the names and addresses of other wanted terrorists and information on Islamic extremist groups, the government said in a statement.
"Al-Batawi is considered at the top of the terrorist list," the statement said, adding he had "committed the ugliest crimes against innocent civilians especially in Hurriyah neighborhood that witnessed many massacres."
The government said al-Batawi confessed under questioning that he beheaded hundreds of Iraqis in Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces.
I remember hearing about a group of Christians in North Korea during the reign of Kim il Sung who were discovered living underground to hide from the government. Work crews found them while preparing the ground for paving a new road.
The government executed them by running over them with a steam roller . . . feet first. As they were being crushed to death, these believers sang the hymm, "More Love to Thee."
True story.
BTW, the reason the road was being built is the Kim il Sung had a huge fear of flying, so the road was to allow him to visit a distant town.
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Hahahaha that is so funny!
How do you come up with these hilarious lines???
One more evil beast down! Hurray for the Iraqi troops, and God bless them and all our brave military .. keep it coming!
And how likely would it be to find all of those people and get them under surveillance in 48 hours? And if one of those people on the list is an asset, you then have the suspicion factor among all of them. They will begin to trace their own steps and figure it out. You've lost an asset. The biggest mistake we make is figuring these people are stupid.
The majority of the captured terrorists we hear about have been in custody for ages, have been interrogated and leads followed up.
Fire up the wood chipper
Get a dull bladed machete.
Bump for finding terrorist scum and the computers, cell phones and documents of terrorist scum.
Dear God .... would you puh-leeze stop doom and glooming over GOOD NEWS? You act as if you know they don't have a purpose to what they're doing and why. We know nothing except another evil monster is out of commission, and you're assuming the worst. Can you at least celebrate progress and a positive achievement in the WOT by the Iraqis who are working *with* the US military?
It's a moot point. Our own media already gave them the heads-up through the so-caaled "NSA Wire-Tapping" flap. CNN probably even sent Zarqawi a memo.
You're assuming that they value catching the terrorists more than embarrassing president Bush.
Feed him to the hogs!
Vacation? Gitmo?
LOL!!
I guess, compared to the treatment he's going to get, yeah, Gitmo WOULD be a vacation; a veritable paradise, in fact.
No, Gitmo is WAAAAY to lax for this little bundle of joy. Far better for all if he stays RIGHT there in Iraq; well out of reach of the ACLU and the anti-death-penalty cabal.
Actually, a plastic picnic knife would be better. The longer it takes the better.
Sometimes?
Thank you.
"I'm to the point I won't post these articles anymore."
Keep posting them. Those of us with loved ones over there will take any good news we can get.
It's human nature to make jokes and to find the humor even in the worst or most serious situations.
However there's nothing of human nature about Helen Thomas pics.
I think you read it right. The guy is completely terrified... so terrified, he's absolutely numb. (As he should be). Wish I could be a fly on the wall during his continued interrogation.
Just a few thoughts:
The technology we use "out there" beats the ever-living sin out of the technology we talk about openly.
Think: "Domestic Wiretapping". Cell phones. Call logs. Full transcripts. Iraq. "Your call may be monitored for, uh, 'quality control' purposes."
Now, have you got a bigger picture? Cross-index phone #'s from the confiscated phones and computer with time/dated recordings of conversations... Everything we want to know was already on tape, and the captured computer and phones just gave us the pointers to the relevant recordings to pull up.
So, we don't really need to watch where these people go, the recordings have already provided us with every important location in their operational scheme.
They're now hopelessly compromised and wide-open to infiltration. Organization members will either isolate themselves in hope of evading detection and capture, or unwittingly walk right into our hands. Either way, the disruption is virtually complete; the organizational paralysis near-total. Members aware of the degree of their exposure will be forced to rely on stone-aged methods of communication to avoid further compromise, which will exponentiate the difficulty in planning future operations.
And that's JUST from the phones, the computers have all kinds of traceable identifying data that will facilitate the compilation of further actionable data.
Fear not, the picture's far less gloomy than you think.
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