Posted on 06/15/2006 9:11:39 PM PDT by Enchante
HUNDREDS of insurgents have been captured or killed as a result of information gleaned from the hunting down of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, it was claimed yesterday.
Even as the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq reached 2,500, the military was trumpeting the success of its pursuit of al-Qaeda, revealing 452 raids carried out since Zarqawi's killing on 7 June had resulted in the deaths of 104 insurgents, the capture of 759 "anti-Iraqi elements" and the discovery of 28 arms caches.
US and Iraqi officials said large numbers of documents had been seized during the hunt for Zarqawi, giving key information about the militant group's net-work and the whereabouts of its leaders.
Mouwafak al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, called it "the beginning of the end of al-Qaeda in Iraq". He said: "Now we have the upper hand. We feel that we know their locations, the names of their leaders, their whereabouts, their movements, through the documents we found during the last few days."
The documents seized included one from a computer found in an al-Qaeda hideout used by Zarqawi, apparently setting out al-Qaeda's future tactics and acknowledging it was losing not only the military battle but also the propaganda war. One of its suggestions for redressing the balance was to encourage hostility between the US and Iran. The document also said Zarqawi planned to try to destroy the relationship between the US and its Shiite allies in Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.scotsman.com ...
Can't believe this is in the Scotsman of all places!
That's got to hurt. Plus many of the additional raids are probably yielding additional info.
In the last week alone, we've killed or captured 863 insurgents. or more than a third of the 2500 total US deaths during this war.
Great article. Great news! Thanks for posting.
It's time to pour it on ...
Apparently the terrorists are being captured, killed or run off.
Obviously, this is a signal that it`s time to leave. We might win and then what will the French think?
Sings (albeit, poorly):
"Bad boys! Bad boys!
Whacha' gonna' do?
Whacha' gonna' do
When they come for you?"
Dayumm. Next thing you know, al-jazzy is gonna claim a Coalition victory.
That's the ticket.
I even think that Sun Tzu said 'Pour it on'.
Don't they know that ONCE THEY'VE BEEN PULLED OVER, THEY'LL NEVER GET AWAY?
;-)
iirc, in counterespionage and counterinsurgency parlance, this is called "rolling up the network"
It is time to decorate some utility poles in Iraq with terrorists.
Follow the Vlad the Impaler model.
"We think that Abu Ayyub al-Masri is in fact, probably, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir. They are probably one and the same," Gen Caldwell said. Al-Masri, an Egyptian, trained in Afghanistan and formed al-Qaeda's first cell in Baghdad.
On John Batchelor's show he had the Fox News intel guy and he said that they captured a thumb drive on Zarqawi's person. It was the mother lode.
Sure the Sliming Media will be all over this great victory.
Hmm, no bias in this little turd of a sentence. I note that the article ends with the clear implication that Zarqawi was playing the U.S. like a puppet with respect to the Iranian nuclear situation.
No matter. The facts of the article speak for themselves. And Zarky ain't comin' back.
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