Potentially Huge News
MSNBC is reporting that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been wounded in a shootout and is in custody. If true this is a devastating blow to al Qaeda.
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was wounded and an aide was killed in a clash Thursday with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
The clash occurred near Balad, a major U.S. base about 50 miles north of the capital, Brig. Gen Abdul-Karim Khalaf said.
Khalaf said al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded and his aide, identified as Abu Abdullah al-Majemaai, was killed. Sources tell NBC News that al-Masri is in custody.
This is not confirmed as of yet, so a grain of salt is in order. But it would be a very, very strong start to the new security initiative.
UPDATE: Pajamas Media is reporting that it is NOT al Masri based on DNA testing. Looks like a case of jumping the gun on a report. We'll see.
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By Dan Patterson, February 15, 2007 @ 8:03 pm
“If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting”. General Curtis LeMay.
I’ll be damned if he wasn’t right–If the enemy wants to survive, let him surrender. Fat chance of that policy being implemented, though, because our PC policies are far better at allowing the future killing fields to be prepared than defeating the enemy. Defeat, remember, allows the vanquished to re-build in a potentially stable environment where the possibility of liberty can be nurtured. To allow continued festering of the enemy is to damn thousands of his countrymen to lives of brutality and fear, and likely to murder as well.
Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel
By Bleepless, February 15, 2007 @ 9:00 pm
Whatever happened to fighting to the death? It certainly does not appear to be for leaders these days, just for the ignorant klutzes they boss around.
By old_dawg, February 15, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
Dammit! Don’t you read the news? There is NO Al Qaeda in Iraq. This is just another plot by BUSHITLERMCCHIMPYCHENEYRUMSFELD to invade the peace loving people of Iran.
By cfaller96, February 16, 2007 @ 1:15 pm
Speaking of al Qaeda (in Iraq and elsewhere), where’s that Osama guy? Oops, did I just commit a party foul?