An Iraqi soldier guards a checkpoint in Baghdad. Brigadier General Qassim Atta has revealed that Iraqi soldiers killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in a clash inside one of Baghdad's historic Sunni quarters.(AFP/Ali Al-Saadi)
Posted on 06/04/2007 1:38:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi soldiers have killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in a clash inside one of Baghdad's historic Sunni quarters, military spokesman Brigadier General Qassim Atta said Monday.
"He was from Al-Qaeda, they called him the 'Governor of Adhamiyah'," Atta told AFP. "He was killed during clashes with the 11th Division's first brigade this morning, and 11 of his aides were arrested."
Adhamiyah is a Sunni enclave in north Baghdad, a cluster of streets around an historic mosque surrounded by a US-built concrete security barriers and hostile Shiite districts roamed by militia fighters.
Atta said the alleged Al-Qaeda chieftain was an Iraqi citizen known as Abu Abdullah al-Adhab -- "Abu Abdullah with the crippled arm."
Abdullah's death is the second reported killing of an Al-Qaeda street captain since last week, when nationalist insurgents in the Sunni suburb of Amiriyah violently turned against Al-Qaeda's Islamists.
An Iraqi soldier guards a checkpoint in Baghdad. Brigadier General Qassim Atta has revealed that Iraqi soldiers killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in a clash inside one of Baghdad's historic Sunni quarters.(AFP/Ali Al-Saadi)
But, it seems the enemy is more like cockroaches than soldiers. Ther'e plenty more where that one came from
Now we’re picking on cripples, eh? /s
I thought Iraqis weren’t stepping up. Isn’t that what the dems have been saying?
Iraqi soldiers “stepping up to the plate” bump.
Good news from the Iraqi Army!
One more dead, smelly rodent.
Wipin' side or eatin' side?
Good news, indeed, today just got better.
What the hell! -- did we REALLY need to allow so many to achieve prisoner status?
Death is what these bastards worship, offer and pursue - we should literally move heaven and Earth to get them into that blessed state...
Funny!
They were arrested by the Iraqi Army. They likely won’t live long.
“get them into that blessed state”
‘Just thinking the same thing. Behead the bastards, just like they offer their opponents.
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Isn't it better to deny them what they pursue, and to make them sing like little birdies so that they're utterly humiliated? And then let it be known that they sang, and let them go, so that their former friends do the dirty work for us?
No I think we should put panties on their heads, dump them in rum, then pigs blood, stamp “I am a Jew” on the guy’s forehead and air drop him into mecca.
Iraqi soldiers have killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in a clash inside one of Baghdad’s historic Sunni quarters
Keeping them alive is depriving them of the death they seek, and thus humiliates them.
Humiliating them, according to Lib, Dem, MSM, the U.N., and the E.U. is the same as torture.
Torture is a violation of the laws of war.
Therefore, the only legally correct action is to kill them as soon as found.
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