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U.S. military: Top al Qaeda member captured
CNN ^ | June 23, 2006

Posted on 06/23/2006 3:18:20 AM PDT by bd476



CNN

Iraq: Transition of Power

U.S. military: Top al Qaeda member captured


Friday, June 23, 2006; Posted: 5:36 a.m. EDT (09:36 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Less than two weeks after al Qaeda in Iraq leader Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike, coalition forces detained a senior member of the terrorist network, according to the U.S. military.

A military statement Friday did not identify the man who was captured during a raid on Monday. That raid came two days after another senior member of the network -- Mansur Sulayman Mansur Khalif, also known as Sheikh Mansur -- also was killed in a coalition airstrike.

Monday's raid took place southwest of Baquba, not far from where al-Zarqawi's safehouse -- north of Baquba -- was bombed on June 7.

The man detained along with three other suspected terrorists "is reportedly a senior al Qaeda cell leader throughout central Iraq, north of Baghdad," the military statement said.

"He is known to be involved in facilitating foreign terrorists throughout central Iraq, and is suspected of having ties to previous attacks on Coalition and Iraqi forces," it said.

The military said the raid also turned up an AK-47 and several magazines of ammunition that the coalition forces destroyed on site.

Several women and children, who were present at the sites of the raid, were all returned to their homes, unharmed, after the forces determined the area was secured, the statement said.




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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; iraq; oif; wot
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

BTTT


121 posted on 06/23/2006 9:25:39 AM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Thanks for the ping!


122 posted on 06/23/2006 9:27:31 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: bd476; ASA Vet; BIGLOOK; Dog; Dog Gone; Straight Vermonter; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Squantos; Coop

Sounds like those intel gifts we "inherited" after killing Zark Pig are still paying off.

Or this is a result of more new intel gained when our guys took out the garbage listed in Zark Pigs little portable finger disk.


123 posted on 06/23/2006 9:43:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Grampa Dave; bd476; ASA Vet; BIGLOOK; Dog; Dog Gone; Straight Vermonter; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

I was too lazy to post 'em, but today the Saudis killed 6 AQ terrorists and captured another, and the Pakistanis captured 5 foreigners suspected of AQ ties.


124 posted on 06/23/2006 9:47:29 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Coop

"Roday the Saudis killed 6 AQ terrorists and captured another, and the Pakistanis captured 5 foreigners suspected of AQ ties."

Good news. Many of us felt that the Saudis would be doing these one way roundups after we shared AQ intel with them after Zark Pig was Zotted. Jordan and Saudi land may not be safe havens for any AQ serial killers.


125 posted on 06/23/2006 9:51:37 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

WOW.. thanks for the list. Will pass it on.


126 posted on 06/23/2006 9:57:57 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Thank! Too bad the legacy media does not report it.


127 posted on 06/23/2006 10:00:06 AM PDT by Ptarmigan (Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
accentuating the positive in Iraq


Bump!
128 posted on 06/23/2006 10:21:12 AM PDT by Gucho
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To: bd476
Jane (Harmon),

See..."Whack a mole" DOES work.
129 posted on 06/23/2006 10:42:02 AM PDT by CDB ("Mogadishu Jack" Murtha: "Retreat? Hell Yes"--running in a different direction)
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To: samtheman
Kerry is depresses because he could not get the pullout and save these al qaeda members.
130 posted on 06/23/2006 11:11:17 AM PDT by mountainlyons (Hard core conservative)
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To: CDB

What a lot of these idiots don't realize is that most whack-a-mole games *do* have a predetermined end, if you are good enough and fast enough. At some point, the machine gives up and says "you win," rather than continue to pay out tickets. (One of my friends is actually good enough to get to this point on just about any machine he's ever seen.)

But obviously, none of these idiots were good enough or stuck around long enough to find this out.


131 posted on 06/23/2006 11:53:46 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: bd476

Meanwhile.....back at the ranch, the NYT and the LAT don't think it's right that we should be cutting off funds of the poor terrorists. I WANT THOSE PUBLICATIONS SHUT DOWN! Treasonous bastards!


132 posted on 06/23/2006 11:59:43 AM PDT by Just Lori (To everything, there is a season.........Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion?

Ah! But do they have a Jack Bauer?

;^)

Good info; thanks.

133 posted on 06/23/2006 11:59:53 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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To: mainepatsfan

Maybe the New York Times should write a front page article on this very subject:"IRAQ SAFE HOUSES ARE NO LONGER SAFE."


134 posted on 06/23/2006 12:08:19 PM PDT by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: frogjerk
MURTHAbeheadedTwoSoldiers.

135 posted on 06/23/2006 12:08:29 PM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Bump, good post Tonkin!


136 posted on 06/23/2006 1:01:38 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: bd476

Sorry, Dems only care about Osama.

Of course, 5 seconds after we catch Osama, they will say he doesn't matter anymore.


137 posted on 06/23/2006 1:12:38 PM PDT by Democratshavenobrains
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To: Spktyr
Great comment!
138 posted on 06/23/2006 1:29:49 PM PDT by CDB ("Mogadishu Jack" Murtha: "Retreat? Hell Yes"--running in a different direction)
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To: bd476
Sheikh Mansur is pronounced Sheikh Man - sewer'.
139 posted on 06/23/2006 3:57:21 PM PDT by oyez (Appeasement is insanity)
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To: bd476

Lets just hope they find those bastards that tortured our two soldiers.


140 posted on 06/23/2006 4:00:28 PM PDT by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion have been born. Ronald Reagan)
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