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Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq arrested: report
Reuters ^ | May 8 2008 | Reuters

Posted on 05/08/2008 2:22:04 PM PDT by balls

DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, has been arrested, the Arabic television station al-Arabiya reported on Friday, quoting the Iraqi Defense Ministry.

Arabiya said Muhajir had been detained in a joint Iraqi-U.S. operation in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The U.S. military said it had no information on the reports at this stage.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abuhamzaalmuhajir; almuhajir; alqaeda; alqaedainiraq; captured; iraq
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To: Dog; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Dna test time frame?


21 posted on 05/08/2008 4:21:08 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: BOBTHENAILER

That..... and we wait until we have an official US confirmation.....the Iraqis have a shaky track record on their claims of late.


22 posted on 05/08/2008 4:27:28 PM PDT by Dog
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To: balls

He looks like a gay arab freak if I have ever seen one, which I haven’t. If true this is great news.


23 posted on 05/08/2008 4:37:22 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: sanchmo

“We’re gonna need a hacksaw.”

Enough of that talk guys. We must be nice with him and set an example for al Qaeda by following international law /s


24 posted on 05/08/2008 4:47:48 PM PDT by balls
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To: balls
There must be a fitting punishment for this:

"...He called on al Qaeda fighters to provide "a head of an American as a present to the trickster Bush" in a month-long campaign that he called the "Attack of Righteousness".

25 posted on 05/08/2008 4:49:42 PM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Arrested in Mosul
Fox News | Thursday, May 08, 2008
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 05:33:29 PM by Tut
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013251/posts


26 posted on 05/08/2008 4:57:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: balls
MSNBC’s take on the capture. It's just a matter of time before he's nothing but an Al-Qaeda wannabe to the MSM.

****Any direct links are murky between al-Masri’s insurgents and the terror network of Osama bin Laden. But al-Masri has followed a path that brought him in contact with some of bin Laden’s top lieutenants.****

27 posted on 05/08/2008 4:59:47 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: shrinkermd; SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BOBTHENAILER
The plot thickens...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUKL0818912920080508

The Iraqis are claiming they rolled up someone who lead them to a house and a sleeping al-Masri.

After being detained, Masri confessed to being the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, he said, adding that his identity still had to be confirmed. Other Iraqi security officials said the suspect was in American custody for identification.

28 posted on 05/08/2008 5:05:36 PM PDT by Dog
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To: BOBTHENAILER

I’m at a five leaning to a six(with a bullet) on the scale that we got him.


29 posted on 05/08/2008 5:10:40 PM PDT by Dog
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To: Jeff Chandler; kristinn; tgslTakoma; trooprally

Seeing Rev. Wright’s exclamation for the umpteenth time it has occurred to me there is not much difference between that Reverend and the Rev. Fred Phelps.


30 posted on 05/08/2008 5:24:15 PM PDT by freema (Proud Marine Niece, Daughter, Wife, Friend, Sister, Cousin, Mom and FRiend)
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To: shrinkermd
There must be a fitting punishment for this: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

What backward thinking! We need to send a delegation to Iraq, headed by Barak Hussein Obama, who will sweet talk Al Masri into cooperating with the CIA, in exchange for a US Green Card,a pew in a certain church in Chicago, and a day job, cleaning the local mosque.( sarc off.)

They need to string this guy up by his cojones and get him debriefed. Dear knows how many American lives THAT would save!

31 posted on 05/08/2008 5:32:44 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing.)
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To: balls

He will have a thousand US attorneys volunteering to defend him.


32 posted on 05/08/2008 5:33:42 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: balls

EXCELLENT NEWS!!! ThX!


33 posted on 05/08/2008 5:39:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline—1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: ALASKA
Dust off the waterboarding equipment............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The commander of Ninevah military operations informed me that Iraqi troops captured Abu Hamza al-Muhajir the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq," al-Askari told The Associated Press by telephone.

If it's Iraqi troops that got him, he's going to beg to be water-boarded by comparison.

34 posted on 05/08/2008 6:09:51 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (We have people in power with desire for evil.)
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To: Carry_Okie

I think the Iraqi’s use diluted battery acid with their water board.


35 posted on 05/08/2008 7:02:39 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Dog
Whoa baby....that makes me getting ready to rock!!!

Make it a ten, then let's go out and do it again...

36 posted on 05/08/2008 7:02:51 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: Jeff Chandler
“Obama says he wants to talk with him and work out an understanding. He Obama is not frightened by people who look different than he; different doesn’t mean deficient.”

Obama just found his new ambassador to Iraq.

37 posted on 05/08/2008 7:05:36 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: freema

“Seeing Rev. Wright’s exclamation for the umpteenth time it has occurred to me there is not much difference between that Reverend and the Rev. Fred Phelps.”

That would make a great graphic.
Fred Phelps and Jerry Wright on the same poster with their quotes displayed side by side.


38 posted on 05/08/2008 7:08:24 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: HereInTheHeartland; devolve; potlatch

You’ve got a good point, Heartland.

devolve...potlatch.... You have a call on line one.


39 posted on 05/08/2008 7:11:35 PM PDT by freema (Proud Marine Niece, Daughter, Wife, Friend, Sister, Cousin, Mom and FRiend)
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To: balls

I wish they’d let me torture the SOB. I’d think of all kinds of things to do to the poor sucker. He’d wish he were dead.


40 posted on 05/08/2008 7:24:23 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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