[FairOpinion]

I hope it's true. We know there were earlier news articles that the Marines were hunting him. He was a very important target, hope we got him. From earlier news reports:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_766088.html?menu=news.wariniraq

US marines target 'Chemical Ali'

US Marines have targeted Saddam Hussein's notorious henchman Chemical Ali in a raid using precision-guided bombs, tanks and helicopter gunships.

They launched a raid on Shatra, a town just north of Nassiriya, and their targets included Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of the Iraqi leader.

Al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, was responsible for using chemical weapons against Kurds in Iraq in 1988 and remains one of Saddam's most trusted and feared aides.

He was believed to be heavily involved in organising the current paramilitary resistance to coalition forces.

The US Marines struck in Shatra at dawn after tip-offs that Al-Majid and other senior Baath Party members were there.

They were believed to be organising raids on US supply lines.

The Marines who carried out the raid had been heading north for Baghdad but turned round to focus on Shatra to help secure the supply lines, military sources said.

Reuters reporter Sean Maguire, embedded with the US Marines, said precision bombs hit four targets in Shatra before tanks, armoured personnel carriers and helicopter gunships firing machine guns moved in.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

We will see. It is about time that one of these guys turns up dead.

[Sabertooth]

Is Targetedattack closer to Tikrit or to Baghdad?

[nevergore]

This guy is like a cockroach....

We keep killing him and he pops up alive somewhere else....

He's died in the bunker the first night, Basra the first week, a Bagdad raid and in the field a few days ago.....

Now this report....

Hope our Marines got him this time for good....

NeverGore

[xm177e2]

Because of DEBKAfile's repeated lack of credibility, it is best to put the word "DEBKA" into the headline, so people know it's just a rumor and not an actual fact.

That having been said, other news reports were about this attack on Ali, so the rumor just might be true. That doesn't change the fact that DEBKA probably just saw news about an attack on Chemical Ali and decided to dress it up as an inside scoop about his demise.

[AgentEcho]

Ummmm... Ananova and Debka as sources. Not holding my breath on this report, but hopeing it's true.

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[Lancey Howard]

This is where I wish I had a picture of Nelson Muntz saying, "HA, haaa...!"

[George W. Bush]

FR should ban posts from Debka. What a waste of time they are, time after time.

Nothing from DEBKA should ever be in Breaking News. I hate clicking an article and waiting for it to load and then finding out it's DEBKA fluff which is nothing but a tabloid mill posing as a news site.

[Bluntpoint]

Never believe Debka until the Highschool kids at Newsmax copy the story verbatim and add tidbits from their secret sources (Cable News).

Newsmax press room: A room at the Holiday Inn with access to cable news.

[CougarGA7]

I get the impression that DEBKA thinks that if they just keep reporting him dead over and over again that the guy will just drop off. Eventually they will be right because at some point he will at least die of old age.

[ChadGore]

Please don't quote debka as anything resembling a reliable source. They are a steaming cauldrun of jihadist bs.

[js1138]

If tre, this will be the third time I've read that he has been killed.

[Puddleglum]

Well, DEBKA was partly right about the helicopter offensive the other day, so I'm hopeful they're partly right again today, too. But I don't hope Ali is partly dead - I will hold out for the news that he is taking the big dirt nap/sand nap.

[irish guard]

>>>>targeted attack Monday on Iraqi military convoy near Ash Shatra<<<<<

Looks like he got his "Ash Shot"

[Lancey Howard]

"Excellent."

[Lancey Howard]

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ajntsa

[ChadGore]

Please don't post information from debka as a credible source.
They are not.