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Iraq refuses to say if Zarqawi detained
The Jerusalem Post ^ | Jan. 22, 2005 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 01/22/2005 2:38:51 PM PST by AliVeritas

Iraq's interior minister on Saturday refused to comment on rumors that the top terror leader in the country had been taken into custody.

"I wouldn't like to comment for the time being," Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib said when asked about rumors that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been arrested. "Let's see. Maybe in the next few days we will make a comment about it."

Pressing him, a reporter asked, "Does that mean he is in custody?"

"No comment," the minister repeated.

The rumors about al-Zarqawi followed an interview aired on an Arab television station earlier this month in which a Saudi man arrested for a deadly truck bombing claimed that he heard from other insurgents that al-Zarqawi had been arrested by Iraqi police in Fallujah but released because authorities didn't recognize him.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: Y0K

"The sweet sounds of hiding behind the civilian populace is now gone and so will half of his insurgents shortly."

With so many "captures" I'm a bit reluctant to believe the evil scum has been caught but let us pray that's the case.


41 posted on 01/22/2005 3:10:09 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
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To: SeaBiscuit

When both Dan Rather and DEBKA both confirm this story, then I'll believe it.


42 posted on 01/22/2005 3:21:22 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: AliVeritas

They would like to take him into custody and make him president. We are wasting our money and soldiers on these terrorists.


43 posted on 01/22/2005 3:28:58 PM PST by CaptainAwesome2
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To: True Republican Patriot

Someone referred to her as al-Quatie Qu'uric the other day.


44 posted on 01/22/2005 3:42:45 PM PST by jjmcgo
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To: AliVeritas

This "no comment" from the Iraqi official is more encouraging than the last instance of a report of his capture. The last time Iraqi officials and Centcom were quick to deny the initial reports.


45 posted on 01/22/2005 3:50:53 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: new cruelty; NorCalRepub

Yes, "more info", "election timing", makes sense. Although, I would think if they really did have him the news of that would be near impossible to keep secret. In any event, I hope the "no comment" is not out of embarassment "for letting him go" as an earlier poster mentioned. That's one scenario I wouldn't care to think about.

We shall see..


46 posted on 01/22/2005 3:58:01 PM PST by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
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To: SauronOfMordor
because they didn't recognize who they had...

note to self: scrutinize all detainees that are missing a leg!

47 posted on 01/22/2005 4:29:13 PM PST by Wake75
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To: Rudder
"If the perp is still at large, it might bring him out to dennounce the 'false' message, and that exposes him to tracking. "

But then the Iraqi government leaks to the press that they tortured and forced him to make the video saying he's still at large. (They did it to keep the cells from going to ground before they could be rounded up.)

Then Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will have to make another video saying the government is lying about forcing him to make a video saying he wasn't captured.

Then...

48 posted on 01/22/2005 5:55:15 PM PST by bayourod (America, the greatest nation in history is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants are an asset.)
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To: bayourod

An ever-thickening plot.


49 posted on 01/22/2005 6:52:33 PM PST by Rudder
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