It pays to have enough troops to cover many different parts of Baghdad at once finally.
From the Blogosphere:
Looks Like US Nabbed Latest al Qaeda Leader In Iraq...misreported
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Update: Looks like the news was slightly mis-reported. It seems the man arrested was the deputy leader - so could the leader be far behind? Still a good catch, not as good as reported below. end update
More great news from Iraq, and another blow to the Democrats’ surrender monkey plan as al Qaeda’s successor to Zarqawi was captured Sunday.
A suspected leader of the group Islamic State in Iraq, which has ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, was detained in northern Iraq on Sunday, Iraqi security forces reported.
Muharib Mohammed Abdullah, aka Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was arrested in a joint raid by Iraqi and US soldiers in the city of Duluiya.
“This is a great success for the Iraqi security forces, comparable to the killing of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi,” the Salaheddin provincial administration in the town of Tikrit said in a statement.
Someone needs to remind Murtha, Pelosi and Reid these kinds of successes are not possible if we turn tail and have our troops hide out in Okinawa. And pity the liberal fool who claims NOW is the time to pull the funds from our effort to squash al Qaeda in Iraq and finally get some stability for the country. In other news, the US surge is now purging Sadr city as well:
More than 1,000 US and Iraqi troops launched a pivotal incursion into a Shi’ite militia bastion in Baghdad yesterday, meeting no resistance as they searched homes for illegal weapons and carried out patrols.
The operations in Sadr City, stronghold of the Mehdi Army of anti-American cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, could test Iraqi and US determination to enforce a security crackdown regarded as a last attempt to stop Iraq sliding into all-out sectarian civil war.
“Deliberate clearing operations have begun in Sadr City,” said US military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver. More raids will follow in the coming days, he said.
The success of this action could be in part by al Qaeda and the insurgents getting too confident the Democrats would surrender to them and being caught off guard and exposed. Surely they did not expect an increase in intensity, and probably are now stuck in hidey holes as Iraqi and US forces do their sweeps and pick these animals up.
Deputy leader of Iraqi militant group arrested
Posted on : Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:53:01 GMT | Author : DPA
Baghdad- The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced Monday it arrested the deputy leader of the Islamic state in Iraq militant movement, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, in Duluiyah, north of Baghdad, Iraq news agency reported. Al-Jabouri, known by the alias Abu-Abdullah, is the deputy of the movement's leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the self-titled "Emir of believers."
The Islamic State in Iraq is a Sunni movement linked to the al- Qaeda terrorist network. It was established in 2006 with the stated aim of protecting Iraqi Sunnis and is composed of a variety of insurgency groups aiming to found a caliphate in the Sunni Arab dominated regions of Iraq.
Where is that ol' sparky...you know the one that emits electrical charges....
I hear this guy had poor dentures and needs some work.
Militiaman? Sounds like such an honorable positon. On 9/11, was the WTC and the Pentagon entered by 19 militiamen?
How many of these "top" guys are there?
suppose there are 100,000 terrorist-job-positions in Bagdad.
coalition forces kill 100,000 terrorist in Bagdad.
Q. how many terrorists are then in Bagdad?
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A. 100,000