Al Qaeda-tied terrorist nabbed in Iraq

CNN ^ | Tuesday, April 29, 2003 Posted: 4:35 PM EDT (2035 GMT) | From David Ensor

[Guardian_John]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senior Bush administration officials Tuesday said a member of an al Qaeda-affiliated terror group operating in Iraq has been captured by U.S. forces.

[68skylark]

This mope (or an associate of his) was mentioned by Secretary Powell at his UN presentation a few months ago, right?

[Guardian_John]

Yes he was, and Iraq said her wasn't there

[doug from upland]

Zarqawi was said to have received medical treatment in Baghdad in May and June of 2002 after being wounded in Afghanistan during the war. His leg was amputated, U.S. officials say, by a surgeon in Iraq.

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His associates ran away but because he could only hop, he didn't have a chance. Monty Python where are you with a punch line?

[SwinneySwitch]

Impossible! My left leaning sources assure me there are no ties between Saddamn and Al Qaeda!

[January24th]

Something might satisfying about taking out the trash...

"Beer For My Horses"
Toby Keith

Well, a man come on the 6 o'clock news,
Said somebody's been shot, somebody's been abused.
Somebody blew up a building, somebody stole a car.
Somebody got away. somebody didn't get too far, yeah.
They didn't get too far.
Grandpappy told my pappy: "Back in my day, son,
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hang them high in the street,"
For all the people to see that:

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We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds,
We've got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets.
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground.
Send 'em all to their maker and he'll settle 'em down:
You can bet he'll settle 'em down 'cause,

Justice is the one thing you should always find.
You got to saddle up your boys,
You got to draw a hard line.
When the gunsmoke settles, we'll sing a victory tune.
We'll all meet back at the local saloon,
We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces,
Singing: "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses."

[Bonaparte]

If Zarqawi's left leg was the one amputated, then he would now be taking a right-leaning stand.

[sharktrager]

I hate CNN getting hits:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senior Bush administration officials Tuesday said a member of an al Qaeda-affiliated terror group operating in Iraq has been captured by U.S. forces.

Sources said the individual is a member of a group operating in western Baghdad under the leadership of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian believed by the United States to have been the mastermind behind the assassination of American diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman last October.

Zarqawi was said to have received medical treatment in Baghdad in May and June of 2002 after being wounded in Afghanistan during the war. His leg was amputated, U.S. officials say, by a surgeon in Iraq.

Before the war, Secretary of State Colin Powell pointed to Zarqawi's al Qaeda-affiliated group that he said was operating inside Baghdad, as evidence of ties between al Qaeda and Iraq.

Powell told the U.N. Security Council in early February that after al Qaeda and the Taliban were ousted from Afghanistan, Zarqawi established a camp in northeastern Iraq to train terrorists in using explosives and poisons.

During Zarqawi's stay in Baghdad, nearly two dozen of his associates set up a base of operations in the capital to move people, money and supplies throughout the country, said Powell.

The United States, using another international intelligence service as an intermediary, twice gave the Iraqi government information it could have used to apprehend Zarqawi and break the Baghdad cell, but "Zarqawi still remains at large to come and go," Powell said. "From his terrorist network in Iraq, Zarqawi can direct his network in the Middle East and beyond."

Mohamed Aldouri, Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations before the war, denied Powell's charges, saying Iraqi officials never met with Zarqawi.

Administration officials say they do not know yet whether the newly captured individual -- as yet not named by U.S. officials -- had any connections with the government of Iraq.

[Colofornian]

Previous thread: Comment was: See? It was all about the oil

"What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers? Wastin' time w/all the chatroom yakkers?..."--Weird Al

What y'all wanna do? Wanna be 'fraid-o'-al Qaeda? Wanna be a Chirac French Maid-a? No raid-on-al Qaeda?

It's all about the oil, baby

It's all about the oil, baby

It's all about the oil!

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"Workin' at a desk w/a dumb little placard?

Yeah, payin' the bills w/my mad programming skills

Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills

I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM

I never feed trolls and I don't read spam

Installed a T1 line in my house

Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse

Upgrade my system at least twice a day

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I'm down w/Bill Gates, I call him 'Money' for short

I phone him up at home & I make him do my tech support

It's all about the Pentiums, what?" --Weird Al

Workin' at a anti-war rally with a dumb little placard?

Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad sloganeering skills

Defraggin' 'Publicans for thrills

I got me a hundred media soundbytes to RAM

Up into whatever cam we can e-spam

Installed a cable line in my house

Always at my PC, lamenting war wins that douse

Previous slogans--Upgrade 'em down at least twice a day

I'm down with George Bush, I call him 'Oil' for short

I phone him up at home and I make him do my gas station fillin'

It's all about the oil, what?

"Ya gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen

You've got White-Out all over your screen

You think your Commodore64 is really neato

What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?

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You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette

You're the biggest joke on the Internet

Your database is a disaster

You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster

Hey, fella, I bet you're still livin in your parents' cellar

Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar

And postin' 'Me too!' like some brain-dead AOL-er

I should do the world a favor & cap you like Old Yeller

You're just about as useless as JPEGS to Helen Keller."--Weird Al

You gotta be the dumbest news newbie I've ever seen

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Hey fella, I bet you ain't livin in Berkeley or Boulder

Downloadin' pix of the Dixie Chix

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Your oilless eyes are as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller

It's all about the oil!

[Mister Baredog]

Tom Dashole is saddened, deeply saddened by this news.

[RonF]

I hate CNN getting hits:

Which justifies violating their copyright rights?

[Kay Soze]

Dont let Robert Scheer and the other America haters find out about this!!!!

[demnomo]

Dang. If only I had been more patient and read down to your post #8, I would not have given CNN the hit.

Next time...

[sharktrager]

If you don't like the way this site runs, talk to Jim Rob.

There's a list of sites not to post in full from, and CNN ain't one of them.

[sharktrager]

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Do you see CNN mentioned?

[Howlin]

Which justifies violating their copyright rights?

I looked at your other posts.

You post on a lot of threads.

I don't see you making that complaint anywhere else.

Why?

[RonF]

This statement:

I hate CNN getting hits:

My problem with this is not political. My problem is that it appears to me that you are specifically stating that you copied their material so as to enable people to avoid using CNN's site. It's one thing to excerpt information, which may or may not be enough information for people to not reference the original article on www.cnn.com. It's quite another to explicitly seek to copy copyrighted material from CNN so as to keep people from going to the source and denying the copyright holder revenue.

Seems to me that this puts FR at risk from inordinate attention from CNN.

[RonF]

That statement you quote means that a settlement was reached with those particular organizations. That doesn't mean that people are free to violate other sources' copyrights.

[sharktrager]

Either you are unfamiliar with the action involved, or intentionally obtuse.

For years Free Republic has posted whole stories. Don't like that? I don't give a damn.