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

Because of asbestos in the shingles which has been there since the house was built by HALLIBURTON.
161 posted on 06/24/2006 12:38:20 AM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Now that Zarqawi is dead, who will the Democrats nominate in 2008?)
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To: samtheman

Too funny! He's a damn traitor.


162 posted on 06/24/2006 8:29:24 AM PDT by DEM-SPOILER
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To: Choose Ye This Day

"Jack Murtha is deeply troubled."

Yep, American success in Iraq is his worst fear.


163 posted on 06/24/2006 8:39:20 AM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Gator113
"More good news for America and bad news for Democrats."

Sad, but true.

164 posted on 06/24/2006 9:00:13 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
LOL.....oh Murtha the military logistics expert!!!!

Joined by those two other military experts....McCain and Kerry.

165 posted on 06/24/2006 10:20:06 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
"OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T KNOW . .AND I DIDN'T KNOW!

WHY DIDN'T WE ?

OUR MEDIA WOULDN'T TELL US!"

Tonk, I've been thinking about this for a while. Of course our media didn't tell us! This was reported by military folks from the Pentagon, and it's all lies! Never, EVER trust a military person, you know? The media all know that!

We would do MUCH better to trust them, with their wide experience and broad knowledge of the world, wouldn't we? They know what is going on in the world, because they go out and look at it every day, of course, unlike all those military people... /sarc...
166 posted on 06/24/2006 11:24:48 AM PDT by Old Student (WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
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To: bd476
Suicide blast kills 2 at Iraq elderly home - CNN 6-20-2006

A senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader, Mansur Sulayman Mansur Khalif, also known as Sheikh Mansur, was killed Friday when coalition forces targeted a vehicle in which he and two others were riding, military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said Tuesday. Mansur led various cells in the Yusufiya area south of Baghdad, Caldwell said.

Military: Senior member of al Qaeda network killed - CNN 6/20/2006

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- A man described as a "very senior member of the al Qaeda network" was killed by coalition forces Friday, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.

Mansur Sulayman Mansur Khalif, also known as Sheikh Mansur, was killed when coalition forces targeted a vehicle in which he and two others were riding, spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said Tuesday. "They attempted to flee. Coalition forces pursued them and during that time engaged the vehicle and destroyed it."

Mansur, he said, was a leader of al Qaeda in Iraq "with excellent religious, military and leadership credentials within that organization." He was tied to the senior leadership of the organization, Caldwell said, and had relationships with leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month, and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who the military believes replaced al-Zarqawi as the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. (Posted 10:54 a.m.)

167 posted on 06/24/2006 11:46:33 AM PDT by TexKat
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To: bd476; Straight Vermonter

Dabaan is a top mufti, or religious authority, for most of Iraq's minority Sunni Muslim community, which was dominant under Saddam Hussein and now forms the backbone of the insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government.

His arrest came the day before Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is expected to present a national reconciliation plan to end sectarian tensions and defuse a Sunni insurgency.

An Iraqi security source at the joint Iraqi-U.S. coordination center in Tikrit 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad said Dabaan had been arrested along with two sons.

The Iraqi Islamic Party said another religious leader who had been a guest in Dabaan's home, Sheikh Abdalilah al-Hiti, was also arrested.

The U.S. military said it had not known beforehand that it was Dabaan's home and they had since released him. They made no mention of his sons or Hiti.

The deputy governor of Salahaddin said earlier that most provincial government offices had suspended work in protest at the arrest of Dabaan and were refusing to return to work until he was freed.

The U.S. military said one of the suspects detained was "directly associated with several senior-level al Qaeda members and reportedly plays an important role in the network between Baquba and Tikrit."

http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/549018/us_raid_sparks_outrage_among_sunnis/index.html?source=r_general


168 posted on 06/24/2006 12:10:03 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: American in Singapore
"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."

I think you are correct as far as your assessment goes, but the other half of plan for the WOT is to establish an overwhelming force in the ME for future needed operations. As our President has explained many times, this is a longterm strategy.

169 posted on 06/24/2006 1:11:48 PM PDT by VRWCtaz (Conservatism is about promoting opportunity and Liberalism is about controlling outcome.)
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To: rbg81
Looks like we've busted their network big time. Al Quaeda will loose many of their members and have to rebuild from scratch. That will be harder though, as they will be less able to intimidate and as most Iraqis doubtless like getting suicide bombed.

A New York Times story that ran in a number of papers today claims that Al-Mansour and other upscale neighborhoods outside the Green Zone are being encroached on by "insurgents" (always "insurgents," with Pinchy Sulzberger's rag).

Although we can't trust the Times not to spin the story grossly, it sounds like the good guys are just too thin to keep the Ba'athists or Al Q'aeda or Sunni militias or whoever it is from attriting local security in much the same way the Viet Cong did in 1961-1968 before the Hanoi politburo expended them in the two big offensives of 1968, Tet and the summer offensive, after which they basically ceased to exist and their place in the enemy OOB was taken by line units of the NVA, which thereafter began to operate in regimental and brigade strength.

170 posted on 06/24/2006 10:15:35 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: conservative blonde

In their case it would be more like "IRAQ SAFE HOUSES SAFE BUT DANGEROUS."


171 posted on 06/25/2006 4:38:10 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: OldFriend

Jimmy Carter's theory too. No human presence needed. We are just now starting to recover from his policy. By the fall of 2002, we hadn't, which is why we went into Iraq in Mach of 2003, right?


172 posted on 06/26/2006 9:02:48 AM PDT by jschwartz
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