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.
The Arab media in Iraq and outside is all reporting that he and his number two have been nabbed along with his brothers.
We will see soon enough.
Well now we know.
I think AJStrata kind of jumped the gun at first reporting it like it was certain, and then drew back a bit too far in his update. Roggio was much more cautious from the outset in his commenting.
" . . . he and his number two have been nabbed along with his brothers . . ."
At this rate, I hope they also nabbed his mother-in-law's twin sister.
If that turns out to be true, it means we're rolling up a bunch of them. Intel avalanche maybe?