Posted on 11/23/2004 5:42:50 AM PST by Ironfocus
Kirkuk - Security forces were on Tuesday focussing their hunt for Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on an area in north-central Iraq after receiving a tip-off, an Iraqi national guard officer said.
"We received concrete information from very reliable sources that Zarqawi was transferred today (Tuesday) to Tuz Khormatu and is heading to Baquba," staff brigadier general Anwar Hamad Ameed, the national guard chief in the northern city of Kirkuk, told AFP.
He gave no further details.
Tuz Khormatu lies about 180km north of Baghdad.
The US military believes Zarqawi, who has a $25m bounty on his head, had been using the rebel stronghold of Fallujah, west of the capital, as a safe haven but that he escaped the city before a US-led assault this month.
In October his group pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and changed its name from Al-Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) to The al-Qaeda Group of Jihad in the Country of Two Rivers (Iraq).
Zarqawi's group has claimed responsibility for many of the most ferocious attacks in Iraq, including car bombings, kidnappings and beheadings.
git him
The noose is tightening.
....He gave no further details.....
How many more detail did you want?
Find him, kill him, don't tell anyone about it!
Jimmy Hoffa that POS!!!
Time to start checking all the spider holes near Baquba.
So, INFORM THE WORLD?
It's time to send Haman to his own noose.
If the coalition is getting tipped off, why are we letting him know?
I don't understand that.
"Loose lips sink ships."
Ping
Ping
Well exactly! And as they are forced out of their nests and out, on the run they are in the open for all to see and to snitch on. And possibly one lucky snitch will receive that 25 million dollar reward. That's all it takes! And that amount is more than enough to raise the average Iraqi out of poverty.
This would be bigger than nailing Oday, Qusay and Saddam all together. The regime of the Ba'athists has never surrendered, not even Saddam himself, who still considers himself to be President of Iraq, just going through a rough patch at the moment. The Ba'athists we just have to chase down and kill. Their especially belligerent erstwhile allies, the foreign fighters that claim ties to al-Qaeda (in utter defiance of the knowledgeable liberal military 'experts'), have largely displaced the Ba'athists in the command and control of the "insurgent" guerrilla forces. And their allegiance is not with the nation of Iraq, but some greater pan-Islamic entity, that has tentacles spread across the world.
So that his head falls off, I hope.
I want him captured. The filty little coward will squeal like a pig!
Frankly, I hope he doesn't survive the firefight.
help me out here. How many times did we get info like this on Bin Laden only to have it fail to come through. I still am not convinced Bin Laden's alive but it is very bad PR. It sets things up to look like incompetence if we don't get him.
Emergency prayer ping for the soon capture and/or termination of Zarqawi.
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