Posted on 05/01/2007 6:24:03 AM PDT by bedolido
THE leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was killed today in an internal fight between insurgents north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Brigadier-General Abdul Kareem Khalaf told said "we have definite intelligence reports that al Masri was killed today". Another source in the ministry also said Masri had been killed. Khalaf said the battle happened near a bridge in the small town of al-Nibayi, north of Baghdad.
Both Gen Khalaf and the other source in the ministry said the authorities did not have Masri's body.
The US military said it could not confirm the reports.
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These are people fighting on the side of the new Iraqi nation. They are fighting against those who don’t want the Iraqi nation to unify and thrive. In which alternative universe can they be called “rebels”?
PING-A-LING!
I think you give these guys too much credit. It was a tribal fight. Rag #1 probably insulted Rag #2’s pet camel and things erupted into a firefight. I wish it were something more profound along the lines of what you’re suggesting, but I’d bet a month’s salary that my version is closer to the truth - no matter what the Iraqi government or U.S. military says.
No, I don’t think I have. Maybe I’m just a little more cynical than you after reading for the umpteenth time how US troops have taken and then retaken and then retaken and then retaken villages in Anbar and after receiving 28 different news flashes in the last year about some “high level Al Qaeda Lt.” being killed or captured.
These guys fight everyone. And when they pause from killing each other, they head right back to killing our troops. There’s an arab saying that goes something like this: My country against your country. My village against your village. My tribe against your tribe. My family against your family. Me against my brother.
I’ll believe that this Al Qaeda leader was killed by Iraqis for the love of peace and puppy dogs when the group claiming responsibility stands up and says so. Until then, I stand by my view that it was just a street fight.
No body? No DNA? No fat lady singing, yet....
We should have learned that Islamists lie simply to avoid telling infidels the truth....
NEVER trust, but verify...
Expect the Democrat party to have a “Perspective on A Great Man” presentation from Michael Moore at the next Democrat Convention. Either that, or a video perspective on the dead terrorist to the tune of Garth Brook’s “The Dance”.
I think not. I would use the term "more clear-headed." You're right.
Egyptian militant Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who trained in Afghanistan, formed al Qaeda's first cell in Baghdad. Like Zarqawi, Muhajir is vehemently anti-Shi'ite.
I think it's a good sign that Zarqawi's former number two man, an Egyptian, who became number one, couldn't even protect himself. We are hearing more and more that outsider terrorists are being targeted by local Iraqi insurgents.
If in fact the bastard was killed at all!
There is a difference between being cynical and wary....
Cynical - Is doubting the bastard is dead until you DNA the body..
Wary - Is what the bastard should be if he is NOT dead.
The announcement of his death could be an attempt by the coalition to have him make the mistake of raising his head to dispute the "announcement", and then whack his ass..
Believe NONE of what you hear from Isalmists, and only half of what your lying eyes observe..
Aint' nothing wrong with being cynical, it kept a lot of us alive...
The tribe is being reported to hail from Fallujah. If this turns out to be true, the death of Abu Ayyub al-Masri would have come at the hands of none other than Sheikh Abdul Sattar al-Risha’s Anbar Salvation Council. As we’ve noted in the past, the 1920s Revolution Brigades and other Sunni insurgent groups have signed on with the Anbar Salvation Council to fight al Qaeda and secure Anbar province.
IF, and I emphasize the IF, the bastard is dead and was killed by "insurgents", it was ONLY because the Egyptian bastard was killing more Iraqis than American infidels...
Frankly - so long as Islamists are killing Islamists, that in my mind in the preferred and natural order of things...
If the bastard was killed, it simply means the Islamists in Iraq wish to focus their attention on killing American and coalition troops.. THAT is not a desirable scenario....
Whomever is working toward the bleeding white of the Islamists in Iraq or ANYWHERE in the middle east -- is doing "God's work" --- to add a little blasphemy.....
masri has been reported killed several times over the past year or so by iraqui officials without american confirmation. until american confirmation comes this news is just white noise.
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