[Coop]

Word on the street is that Al Qaeda in Iraq is supposedly going to tone it down a bit, moving away from Zarqawi's methods. However, the multiple beheading video would seem to refute that rumor.

On a side note, I saw an article earlier this morning where Jordan has arrested two of its Parliament members (IIRC) for attending Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's wake held by his family in Jordan.

[Coop]

Good info throughout entire article

[Straight Vermonter]

I think I will steal this for the round-up. Good find.

[Peach]

For the media trying to pretend that Al Qaeda wasn't in Iraq or working with Saddam until we went to war, this is a list of the articles the mainstream media wrote in the 1990's about the world's alarm at the growing relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts?page=212#212

[dalight]

Back in the day, there were 55 Cards. 9 or 10 of these Ba'ath party and Saddam loyalists are still unaccounted for. Presumably, among these names are the "real" insurgent leaders. There isn't much discussion about them, but its now time to clear them off the face of this moral coil if they are still in Iraq.

I looked everywhere for the current list and could only find it at Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006

6.Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri LTG
Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) Vice-Chairman / Northern Region Commander / Inner Circle/ Deputy Secretary General, Ba’th Party Regional Command / Deputy Commander, Armed Forces

At Large

7.Hani abd al-Latif al-Tilfah al-Tikriti COL
Director, Special Security Organization (SSO) And Responsible For Security And Investigations (MUDIRIYAH NUMBER TWO); Assistant To Qusay; Saddam's Nephew

At Large

14.Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hasan Taha al-Rawi LTG
Chief Of Iraqi Republican Guard (RG)

At Large

15.Rafi abd al-Latif Tilfah al-Tikriti MG
Director, Directorate Of General Security (DGS)

At Large

16.Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti LTG
Director, Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS)

At Large

21.Rukan Razuki abd al-Ghafar Sulayman al-Nasiri Bg
Saddam’s Senior Bodyguard/head-Tribal Affairs/inner Circle

At Large

40.abd al-Baqi abd al-Karim al-Abdallah al-Sadun
Central Ba'ath Party Regional Command Chairman, Diyala Region

At Large

44.Yahya abdallah al-Ubaydi
Central Ba'ath Party Regional Chairman, Basrah Governorate

At Large

45.Nayif Shindakh Thamir Ghalib
Ba'ath Party Regional Chairman An-Najaf Governorate

At Large

49.Rashid Taan Kazim
Central Ba'ath Party Regional Chairman, Anbar Governorate

At Large

Its impossible to look at this list and not see that Saddam's henchmen are still possibly out there pulling the strings.

[Wiz]

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