Posted on 10/28/2006 1:04:17 PM PDT by jmc1969
The Iraqi army captured a man said to have worked as the personal cameraman for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq, the country's most feared insurgent group, the defense ministry reported on Saturday.
Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari, told al-Iraqiyah television Khalid al-Hayani was captured by Iraqi army troops in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
He declined to say when al-Hayani was captured or give his nationality to avoid what he called future operations against terrorists. He would only add that video tapes and documents were found in al-Hayani's possession.
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I was going to suggest that he was probably a CNN stringer, but you beat me to it . . .
FYI
Is this the AP photographer in custody? AP/zarqawi same same who gives a rats ass.
I wonder who is on those videos...
No different guy..
I like the part about "future operations" . . .
Maybe they should have kept this quiet, given this cameraman some re-education, and then sent him back. These "cameramen" have done some interesting things, like the one trained by Bin Laden in his Afganistan days, to be used as fodder against his arch enemy.
I sure hope they considered all the possibilities. The article explicitly says the time of the capture was not given. That probably means they squeezed him for a good bit, and are now prepared to follow through on the intel.
Does he work for Rueters, AP, BBC, or CNN?
Has he been water boarded yet?
LOL! The element of truth in your cartoon is what makes it so funny . . .
But at a different level, the element of truth in it also makes me both indignant and sad.
CNN and the rest of the liberal media want us to lose this WOT.
If that were to happen, then these liberal women will all be wearing burkas...
and they will lose their rights to vote, go to school, hold a job, drive a car...
The death of Zarqawi PR wise was bad for the US public opinion on the war. After the US public no longer had a terrorist to look to for causing the problems they were increasingly willing to buy the DNC shit that Iraq is a Civil War and that it has nothing to do with the War on Terror or American security.
Juan Cole denied Zarqawi's existance until the day he died, because he knew he was a major justifying reason for the US being in Iraq.
I am not saying we shouldn't have killed Zarqawi. But, in my view his death long term helped the dems even though it was good for America, good for Iraq, and good for the world.
". . . his death long term helped the dems even though it was good for America, good for Iraq, and good for the world . . ."
Interesting perspective. Sort of like the idea that has gone around from time to time that we "keep OBL alive" to keep the WOT alive.
Nevertheless, it is largely the major "news" organizations that underpin the dynamics.
well, he needs to have his aperture cleaned and expanded while on "B" exposure.
Not CNN's headquarters, more likely the BBC's or AFP's.
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