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Iraqi Security Forces: al-Qaeda leader detained (The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq Captured)
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| 4 March 2007
Posted on 03/04/2007 12:12:42 PM PST by jmc1969
A suspected leader of the group Islamic State in Iraq, which has ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, was detained in northern Iraq on Sunday, Iraqi security forces reported. Muharib Mohammed Abdullah, aka Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was arrested in a joint raid by Iraqi and US soldiers in the city of Duluiya.
"This is a great success for the Iraqi security forces, comparable to the killing of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi," the Salaheddin provincial administration in the town of Tikrit said in a statement.
Abdullah is a former legal expert from the city of Balad, north of Baghdad.
The Islamic State in Iraq organization claimed responsibility Saturday for the murder of 18 policemen.
Al-Zarqawi, the former leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Iraq, was killed in the summer of 2006 by a US airstrike.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdullah; albaghdadi; alqaeda; baghdad; baghdadsurge; iraq; iraqsurge; terrorist
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To: Dog
Is this the fish you were teasing us about last night?
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posted on
03/04/2007 12:54:45 PM PST
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT ~~ "It always made me mad to have to beg for opportunities to win battles." Gen Patton)
To: jmc1969
". . . in this war symbolism and PR is just as important as anything else."
There is a lot of truth there. I think our biggest obstacle is apathy on the part of many, and venality on the part of the MSM.
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posted on
03/04/2007 12:56:59 PM PST
by
Cap Huff
To: jmc1969
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:00:25 PM PST
by
Chena
To: Jemian
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:00:36 PM PST
by
Dog
To: Cap Huff; Jemian
Abu Omar al-BaghdadiHoly freaking moly...they got the big one.
Jemian.....this is MR BIG in Iraq....YES!
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:02:35 PM PST
by
Dog
To: jmc1969
Iraq will solved in 6 months.
Faith, my friends.
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:05:13 PM PST
by
Finalapproach29er
(Dems will impeach Bush if given a chance.)
To: Dog
It certainly is the big one and what one might call Breaking News.
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:10:10 PM PST
by
jmc1969
To: Dog
You mean I actually informed YOU, Mr. On-the-Spot-With-the-Big-War-News, of a capture? I really did get up early!
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:10:55 PM PST
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT ~~ "It always made me mad to have to beg for opportunities to win battles." Gen Patton)
To: jmc1969
If it's truly comparable, his capture should lead to many additional arrests of al Qaeda sociopaths, which we all no doubt hope is true.
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:13:02 PM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Hagel, Obama, Voinovich and Biden making the world safe for Iranian terrorists.)
To: Jemian; Dog
Dog still owes me Zawahiri from his shift. :-)
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:13:19 PM PST
by
Cap Huff
To: jmc1969
Well I hope "DETAINED" means finding out everything they can from him using any method short of outright "REAL" torture and then let him escape into a HAIL of metal so that their are only small pieces left for the pigs to eat.
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:14:20 PM PST
by
PISANO
To: Jemian
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:15:19 PM PST
by
jmc1969
To: Jemian
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:21:44 PM PST
by
Dog
To: SJackson; Alouette; FARS; knighthawk
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:23:43 PM PST
by
elhombrelibre
(Hagel, Obama, Voinovich and Biden making the world safe for Iranian terrorists.)
To: jmc1969
I have to wonder why their big wigs always surrender and not go down fighting? I guess dying and going to their "paradise " is for chumps and not for a "leader" like this guy.
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:23:57 PM PST
by
csvset
To: jmc1969
Sure hope there is no identity mixup on this one.
And to think all it took was for Maliki to buy in for whatever reason. Now things can get done that should have been years back, e.g. ending the insurgency in all it's forms. A lot can be accomplished in the next six months.
To: jmc1969; Dog
JMC, yes, you did. I never would have found it. But I pinged Dog.
Dog, you snooze, you lose.
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:25:50 PM PST
by
Jemian
(PAM of JT ~~ "It always made me mad to have to beg for opportunities to win battles." Gen Patton)
To: jmc1969
To: jmc1969
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posted on
03/04/2007 1:32:20 PM PST
by
vandy
To: jmc1969
HUUUUUUGE defeat for the Democrats.
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