Thursday, May 08, 2008

Breaking News - Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been arrested

Breaking News -
Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been arrested in Northern City of Mosul
Thursday, May 08, 2008
4:15pm CDT

File photo courtesy of CENTCOM
FowNews.com is reporting that the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman is saying the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been arrested in the northern city of Mosul...
Read the report HERE
(Fox News should update their link as new info comes in)

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The NZHerald.co.nz has this early Friday morning update and it starts off like this... Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping in a house in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said today... The US military in Baghdad said it was checking the reports that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, had been detained...
Read the full report at link below...
Suspected al Qaeda leader in Iraq arrested

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Caught him ALIVE...
Good News... Good News!!!

. You get the Board... I’ll bring the Water!!!!
AubreyJ.........
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Iraqi Army: Al-Qaida in Iraq Leader Arrested

News Video posted on YouTube by AssociatedPress

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* UPDATE *
Friday
, May 09, 2008

Another False Alarm...?

* FOXNEWS.com is reporting this (should have known) news this morning...
The U.S. military denied Friday that the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq - Abu Ayyub al-Masri - had been captured, saying instead that a man with a similar name was arrested in the northern city of Mosul... Iraqi authorities on Thursday said Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul... "Neither coalition forces nor Iraqi security forces detained or killed Abu Ayyub al-Masri. This guy had a similar name," said Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, a U.S. military spokeswoman in northern Iraq...She added that no additional details were being immediately provided...
Read Fox’s full report at link below...
U.S. Military: Al Qaeda Leader in Iraq Has Not Been Captured
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More on this story if news warrants
AubreyJ..........

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