U.S. military: Top al Qaeda member captured

CNN ^ | June 23, 2006

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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.

[HereInTheHeartland]

More "flash drive in the pocket" returns.

[GretchenM]

The word "detained" strikes me funny. Like he's being held with bail pending.

Go ahead, guys. Just say it. You captured him.

[jhw61]

wow..I didn't know any of this. THANK YOU!

[tutstar]

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[eleni121]

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[eleni121]

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http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007239.php

[ohioWfan]

Did they find out where this guy was in that little thumb thing in Zarqawi's pocket? :)

Treasure trove of info........and it's going to keep snowballing.

[vigilante2]

Hooah!

Are you sure this story came from cnn?

[ohioWfan]

BEAUTIFUL post, Tonk! Thanks!

I'm stealing it! :)

[Niuhuru]

"They intimidate complete neighborhoods when they arrive, like Mexican bandito's in a bad 1950's western......"

Well then, let's get some cowboys out there! :)

[Choose Ye This Day]

Jack Murtha is deeply troubled.

[musicman]

Great #116 Post TGYC !!! BTTT !!

[Question Liberal Authority]

What would a top Al Qaeda member be doing in Iraq?

Are you sure you didn't mean "Okinawa"?

[Question Liberal Authority]

It has been part of the plan all along, and now it's bearing fruit: get all the terrorists around the world to come to Iraq (instead of having to chase them all over the world) where our boys and girls are, waiting for them.

The feds had the exact same opportunity at that Kos convention, but they blew it.

[Question Liberal Authority]

An anonymous member of the state department said he is harmless and merely a nice guy who was trying to start a local boy scout troop.

Well, that explains it. In the PC world, the Boy Scouts are a hate group while Al Qaeda are simply one man's freedom fighters. So naturally, they would want to see someone arrested if they were trying to spread the hateful ideology of the Boy Scouts.

[Question Liberal Authority]

The dominoes keep falling. Zarqawi must have had his entire Christmas list on his laptop.

Odd that it wasn't destroyed by the bomb vest he was allegedly wearing 24/7.

For that matter, we sure are capturing alive an awful lot of those who love death more than we love life.

[American in Singapore]

Isn't it funny how the Dims always choose to be on the opposite side of reality, truth, patriotism, honor...

Very well put; 'choose' is the key word.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Just proving Murtha's point that we do not need troops on the ground but can keep them over the horizon!

"A senior Al Qaeda member in Iraq turned himself in to local authorities when he received a phone call from Okinawa requesting that he give himself up."

[Question Liberal Authority]

I hate the word 'detained'. I would much rather read that 'Coalition forces roughed-up, bitch slapped, punched, kneed in the groin and knocked the teeth out of a senior member of the terrorist network'.

In CNNspeak, all that is implied by the word "detained".

[Gator113]

"More good news for America and bad news for Democrats."

I really like how you worded that.