Mar 04 2007

Looks Like US Nabbed Latest al Qaeda Leader In Iraq

Published by at 10:03 pm under All General Discussions,Iraq

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.

7 responses so far

7 Responses to “Looks Like US Nabbed Latest al Qaeda Leader In Iraq”

  1. Brutally Honest says:
    March 4, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    Blockbuster stuff coming out of Iraq…

    Via The Strata-Sphere, potentially incredible good news: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…

  2. Media Lies says:
    March 4, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    Apparently the Iraqi government is getting serious…….

    ….about security measures in Baghdad. A general who was abducted was rescued less than 24 hours later and his four abductors were jailed. In Sadr City, bulld……

  3. Bill's Bites says:
    March 4, 2007 at 10:59 pm

    Sadr City Sweep Underway, Major Action In Anbar,AQI Head Captured?…

    Coalition Forces Move Into Sadr CityGreyhawk (And other news from the first four days of March in Iraq) A new phase in the Baghdad security plan begins: Hundreds of U.S. soldiers entered the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Sunday…

  4. Dc says:
    March 5, 2007 at 2:00 am

    Not to diminish this great news if it holds….but….this was not AlQueda’s replacement for Zarqawi (Al marsi?). But, the leader of the Iraqi (or I should say sunni), political org that reps AlQueda in Iraq that seeks to form a caliphate out of various sunni tribes and areas within Iraq.

  5. Terrye says:
    March 5, 2007 at 5:47 am

    I think this is the new guy who runs operations in Baghdad, hence his handle…this is a very big catch.

  6. Soothsayer says:
    March 5, 2007 at 11:36 am

    Nothing llike that morning Kool-Ade is there? Meanwhile, the security report from IRaq, March 5, 2007 reads:

    BAGHDAD – A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded another in the western Adel district of Baghdad, police said.

    BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb exploded near pilgrims heading to the holy city of Kerbala, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others in central Baghdad, police said.

    BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces killed 10 insurgents and arrested 68, including five of Arab nationality, over the past 24 hours in and around Baghdad as part of Operation Imposing Law, the Joint Operation Centre for the plan said.

    DIWANIYA – Gunmen killed a former member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party in Diwaniya on Monday, police said.

    TIKRIT – The U.S. military said its forces detained 36 suspects in raids near the Syrian border, Tikrit, Falluja and Baghdad targeting foreign fighter and al Qaeda networks.

    BAGHDAD – A suicide car bomb exploded in Mutanabi Street, a Baghdad district lined with book shops, killing up to 26 people and wounding 54, a Reuters witness and police said.

    BAGHDAD – The bodies of six people, including children, were found in Adhamiya district of Baghdad, police said.

    KIRKUK – Gunmen killed a policeman while he was driving in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

    ISHAQI – Gunmen killed five policemen in a drive-by shooting in the town of Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

    ISHAQI – Gunmen wounded four policemen on Sunday while they were gathered in the garden of a friend in Ishaqi, police said.

    BAGHDAD – Gunmen opened fire on pilgrims heading to the holy city of Kerbala, killing five and wounding 17 others in two separate incidents in southern Baghdad, police said.

    SULAIMAN BEK – The bodies of four people, shot and tortured, were found in the town of Sulaiman Bek, 90 km (55 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.

    BAGHDAD – The bodies of 20 people were found shot dead and some showing signs of torture on Sunday in the western half of Baghdad known as Karkh, police said. Baghdad has become increasingly divided into Shi’ites on the east and Sunni Arabs on the west side of the Tigris, though there is a crossover.

    KERBALA – Iraqi security forces, with U.S. advisers, captured a suspected militiaman in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, during operations targeting what the U.S. military called rogue elements of the Mehdi Army militia.

    DHULUIYA – Iraqi forces arrested Muharib al-Jubouri, a local leader of an al Qaeda linked group called the Islamic State of Iraq, along with five of his aides on Sunday in the town of Dhuluiya, 40 km (25 miles) north of Baghdad, Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul-Kareem Khalaf told Reuters.

    DIWANIYA – Gunmen killed a former member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party in front of his house on Sunday in the city of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

  7. dennisa says:
    March 5, 2007 at 11:48 am

    Soothie – You really don’t have anything to say that isn’t negative, do you? Go drink your own damn koolaid. If you had been around at the time of the Civil War, we’d be two countries.