US forces arrest top Kurdish Al-Qaeda 'bomb-maker' ~ near the oil hub of Kirkuk,

TurkishPress.Com ^ | Published: 8/28/2006 | US military - Major General William Caldwell

[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

[jmc1969]

Yes, I saw that one.

It is one of about a dozen such books that have come out lately. All of them neglect the fact that war is always trial and error. The American military has learned more about how to wage insurgent war in its three years in Iraq then it has learned in the 30 years since Vietnam.

[Southack]

The problem wasn't the war, war leadership, or execution...but the artificially-high standards set by the news media.

How many wars 50 or 100 or 1000 years ago would have books printed declaring them to be a failure if they conquered a country in 3 weeks and lost only 1 or 2 soldiers per day during their post-invasion occupation?!

Lightning kills more Americans per year (759) than does the terrorists in Iraq (737), yet the news media gets away with calling Iraq "chaotic" or in anarchic "civil war" or other such nonsense.

[WOSG]

From MR NEAL BOORTZ"

WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE SITTING THIS ONE OUT

It should be clear that the Democrat Party simply does not want to be engaged in the war against Islamic fascism. The Democrat Party is clearly becoming the Democrat-Appeasement Party. Good for the Islamic murderers. Bad for us.

Why, though, do the Democrats find it so terribly difficult -- almost impossible -- to even so much as admit that we are actually in a hot, shooting war with Islamic fascism? They simply view this as something that can be settled if we just sit down, be nice, and talk a lot.

Noodle it out. It's all about power. Political power. Regaining power and then retaining it.

Democrats know that the voting public views the Republicans as more likely to act to defend our country when we are under threat. The trick, then, is to make sure that the voters don't feel we're under a threat. Democrats know that if the voters come to understand that there is a grave threat to the security of the American people -- a threat, for instance, from Iran's nuclear program, and from Islamic radicals around the world -- then these voters are not going to be likely to vote for a party that they view as weak on defending America.

Democrats like John Kerry are trying to convince the people that Islamic terrorism is no more than a simple law enforcement problem. Find them. Arrest them. Try them. Jail them. Oh, and by the way, make sure they get their full plate of Constitutional rights in the process ... even though they most certainly aren't entitled to them.

Listen to these appeasers! "The war in Iraq is wrong." "We need to talk to Iran." "We need to make Israel stop killing all those innocent civilians."

Listen, friends. There is no "war in Iraq." There is no "War in Afghanistan." There's the Iraq front and the Afghan front in the world-wide war against Islamic fascism. Instinctively, you know this.


That's what scares the Democrat-Appeasement party so much

[nopardons]

Interesting news. But how come we have to always find this kind of stuff out by reading foreign newspapers?

The MSM NEVER prints any of this information.

[WOSG]

U.S. Military take Al-Qaeda terrorist who 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.

HUH.

But the Democrats will claim Iraq has nothin to do with the war on terror ... NONSENSE.

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From MR NEAL BOORTZ"

WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE SITTING THIS ONE OUT

It should be clear that the Democrat Party simply does not want to be engaged in the war against Islamic fascism. The Democrat Party is clearly becoming the Democrat-Appeasement Party. Good for the Islamic murderers. Bad for us.

Why, though, do the Democrats find it so terribly difficult -- almost impossible -- to even so much as admit that we are actually in a hot, shooting war with Islamic fascism? They simply view this as something that can be settled if we just sit down, be nice, and talk a lot.

Noodle it out. It's all about power. Political power. Regaining power and then retaining it.

Democrats know that the voting public views the Republicans as more likely to act to defend our country when we are under threat. The trick, then, is to make sure that the voters don't feel we're under a threat. Democrats know that if the voters come to understand that there is a grave threat to the security of the American people -- a threat, for instance, from Iran's nuclear program, and from Islamic radicals around the world -- then these voters are not going to be likely to vote for a party that they view as weak on defending America.

Democrats like John Kerry are trying to convince the people that Islamic terrorism is no more than a simple law enforcement problem. Find them. Arrest them. Try them. Jail them. Oh, and by the way, make sure they get their full plate of Constitutional rights in the process ... even though they most certainly aren't entitled to them.

Listen to these appeasers! "The war in Iraq is wrong." "We need to talk to Iran." "We need to make Israel stop killing all those innocent civilians."

Listen, friends. There is no "war in Iraq." There is no "War in Afghanistan." There's the Iraq front and the Afghan front in the world-wide war against Islamic fascism. Instinctively, you know this.

That's what scares the Democrat-Appeasement party so much

[WOSG]

General George Washington lost more men in Valley Forge than we lost in combat in Iraq so far, yet George 1 is revered while George 43 is not- yet.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Just posted:

Winds Of Political Change Beginning To Favor Republicans

[SandRat]

He is the beloved of the left. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas E. Ricks is a Washington Post Pentagon and military correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winner. Ricks lectures widely to the military and is a member of Harvard University's Senior Advisory Council on the Project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. Ricks is the author of the bestselling books Making the Corps, A Soldier's Duty, and Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq. Ricks lives outside Washington, D.C. with his wife and children.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He probably donates regularly to the ACLU as well!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nite all!

[Grampa Dave]

Good catch and thanks for the pings.

[beachn4fun]

GOOD NEWS PING

[luvie]

Yay! We can always use good news like that. Hope they string him up by his thumbs! Just wishful thinking....sort of....:D

Thanks for the ping-a-ling!

[Coop]

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.

Five cowardly sleazeballs assumed room temperature, another six off the streets - including one biggie who may lead us a step closer to Zarqawi's successor.

Job well done, American and Iraqi forces!!

[beachn4fun]

by the thumbs? hmmmmm.....I can think of better parts to string him up by.....I know....I know....I'm not being nice. But, hey, I'm moody today! LOL

[luvie]

I was trying to be nice, too...but I totally agree with your decision! :D

We are much to polite with the terrorist monsters, IMHO! They don't deserve civil, legal or any other kind of rights!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[GodBlessUSA]

Thanks for the ping Beachn

[Marine_Uncle]

The L/MSM are grinding their teeth into dust. All they can do at this point is not broadcast/write anything. As usual. They do not provide info on anything unless it is a negative sensational event. It is how they operate. They are not in the business to really inform. Never have been, unless it fits their agendas. But alas. I like you, and hundreds of other Freepers, continue to say the same thing over and over again.
We have become broken records, heh heh.
At any rate. Glad to see they did not kill him. He shall, after his surfs up lessons, divulge a lot of info on remaining goons.

[StarCMC]

You know what I always say....