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[The Long War Journal] Abu Ayyub al Masri, al Qaeda in Iraq’s leader, reported captured ...: A close confidant of Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command, al Masri was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the group that folded into al Qaeda under Zawahiri’s leadership. Egyptian Islamic Jihad is a core element of al Qaeda and includes many former members of the Egyptian military.
[The Frontier Post --- Top Stories] Al-Qaeda?s Zawahri says US war on Iraq a failure: This is what Bush has chosen for his army and his people, who elected him twice.” Bush endorsed this month a recommendation by his commander in Iraq to complete the withdrawal in July of about 20,000 extra combat forces deployed last year, but then imposed a 45-day freeze on the remaining 140,000 troops to assess the security situation before considering more cuts. “This is a stupid drama to cover up the failure in Iraq and for Bush to escape from the decision of withdrawing his forces, which would be considered an announcement of the defeat of the Crusader invasion of Iraq, and to pass the problem to the next president,” Zawahri said.
[Cannabis.com Forums Message Boards - Medical Marijuana, Cannabis Club, Dispensary, News] US military says man held is not Iraq al Qaeda leader: Senior Iraqi security officials had earlier said a captured associate of Masri took Iraqi forces on Wednesday to where he was thought to be hiding. After being detained, the man said he was the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, who is also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, they said.
[mothanskin.blog-city.com] "News From The Two Iraq War Fronts": After the offensive against the Mahdi Army is concluded, amnesty should be given to any remaining Mahdi Army fighters if they join the Iraqi army and security forces. Whatever troops that remain in Iraq after the two year phased withdrawal that Clinton and Obama are promising should be placed with some sort of coalition forces whose sole mission would be to guard the Iraq and Iran border, thus cutting off Iranian weapons and fighters from getting into Iraq.
[Infowars] Pentagon: CIA Operative al-Muhajir Captured in Iraq: No need for any of that now because the military is doing a smashing job having caught Hamza al-Muhajir, thus demonstrating progress in Iraq — or rather something spun to resemble progress, not that most Americans notice, having long ago turned away from their responsibility to speak out on what is most certainly a massive war crime.
[The Long War Journal] Targeting al Qaeda in Iraq’s network, April-May 2008: Of the 10 senior al Qaeda leaders identified, US and Iraqi forces have captured four emirs, or leaders, two cell leader, and four facilitators and bomb makers. The capture of these 10 leaders will allow the Coalition and Iraqi forces to conduct interrogation and strike further at al Qaeda in Iraq's network.
[PoliticalGroove Forums] The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder: On March 7, 2003, Mohamed ElBaradei told the UN Security Council that “based on thorough analysis” his agency concluded that the “documents which formed the basis for the report of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger are in fact not authentic.” Indeed, author Craig Unger uncovered at least 14 instances prior to the 2003 State of the Union address in which analysts at the CIA, the State Department, or other government agencies that had examined the Niger documents “raised serious doubts about their legitimacy — only to be rebuffed by Bush administration officials who wanted to use them.”
[Biodun Iginla's Weblog] Al-Qaeda Iraq leader ”˜arrested’: Interior ministry spokesman Maj-Gen Abdul-Karim Khalaf told al-Iraqiya TV that security forces had “arrested one of al-Qaeda’s leaders at midnight and during the primary investigations he admitted that he was Abu Hamza al-Muhajir”.
[SWJ Blog] Abu Ayyub al-Masri Captured (Or Not - Updated): Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the confusion arose because the commander of Iraqi forces in northern Ninevah province was convinced that he had arrested al-Masri ”” also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.
[The Congress Blog] Pentagon: CIA Operative al-Muhajir Captured in Iraq: “I am putting my colleagues in both the House and Senate on notice that whether the House acts or not next week, the Senate Appropriations Committee will move forward with a mark-up of the Supplemental Appropriations bill,” warned Byrd. Add to the bureaucratic quandary the fact a handful of anti-war Democrats, pretty much an endangered species in Congress these days, want a chance to vote on language that would require the Iraq money to be spent only on troop withdrawal.
[CTD Weblog] THE THIRD GREAT JIHAD: The war on Iraq also met a very strategic necessity in that no one knew how much collaboration existed between Saddam Hussein and the master planners of the Third Jihad or his willingness to hand off WMDs to terrorist groups including the PLO in Israel. What was known, were serious indications of on-going collaboration, as Saddam funneled money to families of suicide bombers attacking the Israelis and others in Kuwait.
[Abdulkarems Blog] George Bush Is This One Truth Away From Total Popularity In America: Despite the truth, President Bush continues to tell the American people that the war on terror is a fight against a fringe group of radical Muslims who are perverting the peaceful religion of Islam. The truth that could gain him total popularity and rally the Western World behind him is this: The war on terror is a war on mainstream Islam and 1.3 Billion Muslims who are united in their quest for World Domination just like Adolf Hitler went on a mission to conquer the world for Germany and the white skinned blue eyed human beings.
[Iraq Reviews] The Local Costs of the Iraq War: Iraq War Today In Today's News - Saturday, May 3, 2008: Six al-Qaeda suspects detained in central Iraq 14 al-Qaeda suspects captured in northern Iraq Iraqi Citizens Capture Criminal Responsible for Detonating Bomb .
[Biodun Iginla's Weblog] US denies Iraq claims of terror leader’s arrest: Iraqi security sources, speaking to Reuters, had already begun to cast doubt on the earlier announcement that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, had been captured in an operation in Mosul on Wednesday. One senior security source in Mosul told Reuters the man seized in that raid was an Iraqi.
[Global News Blog] Iraq - Iraqi Soldiers Warn Residents in Embattled Sadr City to ...: The UN’s refugee agency just released its May 2008 update on Iraq’s refugee crisis, and the situation is grim. More Iraqis need food assistance, health care, cash handouts and education, according to the UN agency’s survey of the vast Iraqi refugee community …
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