Nice catch!
Posted on 08/28/2006 8:27:36 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
BAGHDAD - An alleged Al-Qaeda militant suspected of bombing the office of President Jalal Talabani's party in northern Iraq has been arrested near the oil hub of Kirkuk, the US military said.
US military spokesman Major General William Caldwell said the militant, an Iraqi Kurd, was arrested on August 19 and is a "bombmaker suspected of orchestrating some of the most horrific bomb attacks" in Iraq.
Caldwell said he is considered an "explosive expert producing suicide vests, improvised-explosive-devices and detonation devices and is known to have facilitated the movement of high level leaders of Al-Qaeda in Iraq."
He said the captured individual was also close to the Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who allegedly took charged of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi subsididary following the June 7 death of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
During the operation, five suspected "terrorists" were killed and another five detained, he told reporters.
"Intelligence does indicate that the captured terrorist was also involved in the bombing of a Kurdish political party headquarters in Mosul on August 15," Caldwell said, referring to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
On August 15 a truck bomber detonated his load of explosives near the PUK office and killed eight Kurdish peshmerga militiamen and wounded 51 others.
Caldwell said in a series of operations against the Al-Qaeda network in the month of August, US forces conducted "140 assaults, killed 17 individuals, wounded five and detained 300 suspects."
08/28/2006 13:23 GMT
A bullet would've served the a-hole better.
lets have him test one of his own bombs in an empty field..
Getting close to al-Masri?
Hey,....could be!
Nice catch!
Hunt em, find em, sniff em out, kill em. Laugh over their rotting corpses. Take video of laughing over rotting corpses. Send it to Al Jazeera, CBS, NBS, Reuters.
He might have useful information....see Blam's comment!
While wearing it, I trust?
This is getting good.......
I hope he was turned over to the Iraqi'a for interrogation. This is a job for pliars and blowtorch.
They should have shot him dead.
Bump! Good news.
There is actually far more Kurdish extremists then one might think. The Peshmerga are quite good at keeping them down whereas the Shia militias version of hunting terrorists is finding a bunch of Iraqi civilians in a Sunni part of Iraq and killing them.
I have long said that two thirds of all Kurds are our best friends, while one third of Kurds are our worst enemies.
Tough people.
The Apache have not had any "fun" for 150 years.
Let them rejoice!
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Hardcover)
Just reading the Amazon comments....sounds like Thomas E. Ricks (Author ) is going after the actual Military Leadership....that would be new....I think?
Probably because this Kurd is PKK.
The PKK, are Commies so are the natural darlings of the US Press.
The MSM is not likely to publish anything showing a connection between Commies and Al Qaeda.
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