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Top Al Qaeda operative taken into US custody [in late 2006...plotted to assassinate Pres. Musharraf]
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Posted on 04/27/2007 7:57:31 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Top Al Qaeda operative taken into US custody

10 minutes ago

The United States has taken into custody a top al-Qaeda operative who plotted to assassinate Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and other officials, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.

Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi, who was taken to the US navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba about a week ago, was intercepted while trying to reach Iraq to take over Al-Qaeda operations and to plot attacks from there against western targets outside Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

He is "one of Al-Qaeda's highest ranking and senior operatives at the time of his detention.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2006; abdalhadialiraqi; aliraqi; alqaeda; assassinationplots; iraq; muhammadsminions; musharraf; pelosiissaddened; reidissaddened
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To: Sub-Driver

Excellent news.


21 posted on 04/27/2007 8:16:59 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: kevkrom
Oh please give me a break! Do you know what is involved in Halal Food? When the cow is slaughtered someone has to say a muslim prayer when cutting it in order to become Halal meat. This should not happen in America, this is not a muslim country, period.
22 posted on 04/27/2007 8:20:06 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Sub-Driver
Big capture.....tremendous HUMINT value.

Zawahiri & UBLs freely breathing days just became less numbered.....

23 posted on 04/27/2007 8:21:00 AM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: jveritas
When the cow is slaughtered someone has to say a muslim prayer when cutting it in order to become Halal meat. This should not happen in America - do you feel the same about jews and kosher food?
24 posted on 04/27/2007 8:23:01 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Sub-Driver

CNN reported that the guy was ‘captured’ a few years ago and that the Pentagon was just releasing the info. Did anyone else hear this?

This will become the MSM template for this story if true.
“...nothing to see.... move along, etc.” Leahy will probably start asking questions about ‘secret prisons’, ‘torture’, blah, blah blah!


25 posted on 04/27/2007 8:23:04 AM PDT by penelopesire
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To: Sub-Driver

Guys like this just need to “disappear.”
That way, the al queda wanna-be’s will ask themselves,”what happened to asadullah?” Buddy: “I don’t know, he just went for a motorcycle ride and...”


26 posted on 04/27/2007 8:23:26 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: SolidWood
"Swift, hard and thorough interrogation followed by military trial and swift execution."
Around 1480, give or take, they detained some hermit on suspicion of being a would-be Lorenzo the Magnificent assassin. So, after the customary rack, they skinned the soles of his feet and kept them to the fire till the fat started dripping - and then they made him walk. The guy lasted for about 10-12 days under such interrogation, if memory holds.
27 posted on 04/27/2007 8:23:46 AM PDT by GSlob
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To: jveritas

As happens with Kosher foods ?


28 posted on 04/27/2007 8:24:17 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: SF Republican
I think the Jews in the US did not demand an act of Congress to make all food Kosher. They are not imposing their jewish traditions on anyone.
29 posted on 04/27/2007 8:26:16 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas
Oh please give me a break! Do you know what is involved in Halal Food? When the cow is slaughtered someone has to say a muslim prayer when cutting it in order to become Halal meat. This should not happen in America, this is not a muslim country, period.

Unless there's more to it than was quoted, the bill was to ensure that food marketed as "Halal" was actually "Halal". It doesn't force anyone to make "Halal" meats and other products, it just says that anyone who choses to market their products as such actually has to do what they're claiming.

Simple anti-fraud, as far as I'm concerned.

31 posted on 04/27/2007 8:26:35 AM PDT by kevkrom
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To: Blue Turtle
I still say a Dem President would backtrack on campaign promises and continue the war, albeit with reduced enthusiasm but certainly with the complicity of the media.
32 posted on 04/27/2007 8:27:32 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Sub-Driver
Harry Reid the Coward is not going to like this.

 

33 posted on 04/27/2007 8:28:32 AM PDT by scratcher
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To: kevkrom

If this is the case, then that is fine with me.


34 posted on 04/27/2007 8:29:04 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas
I think the Jews in the US did not demand an act of Congress to make all food Kosher - I must have missed that part, I was not aware the muslims were demanding that.
35 posted on 04/27/2007 8:30:25 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Sub-Driver

Another evidence of value of us being and staying in Iraq... Iraq is a mousetrap / roach motel for al-Qaeda big and little rodents and cockroaches.


36 posted on 04/27/2007 8:33:53 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: Sub-Driver
plotted to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf

That would have made me SO SAD. He's SUCH a great FRIEND! /s

37 posted on 04/27/2007 8:34:08 AM PDT by montag813
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To: tobyhill
According to the Rats if we leave the “few” Al-Qaeda will suddenly become peace loving law abiding people who just want to fit in the Iraqi culture.

Amazing, isn't it.

BTW add add a few R's like Hagel and Paul to the list.

38 posted on 04/27/2007 8:34:17 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: JackRyanCIA

I’m not, this guy works both sides of the aisle.


39 posted on 04/27/2007 8:34:47 AM PDT by deputac (NYPD & FDNY: The Other Twin Towers of New York)
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To: Blue Turtle
We are one signature away from ending this war - Barrack Hussein Obama

Please do not disrespect his Muslim heritage. His proper name is "Obama Al Husseini".

40 posted on 04/27/2007 8:35:09 AM PDT by montag813
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