Friday, March 09, 2007

The Leader of the Al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Has Been Captured Near Baghdad

FOXnews.com is reporting some GREAT NEWS...
The leader of the Al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq , Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, has been captured in a raid west of Baghdad, an Iraqi military spokesman said Friday...
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U.S. officials had no confirmation of the statement by Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, spokesman of the Baghdad security operation... Al-Moussawi said al-Baghdadi was captured Friday in a raid in Abu Ghraib on the western outskirts of Baghdad...
Read this great news in full at
FOXnews.com
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Note: Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who took over “al-Qaeda in Iraq” after the death of al-Zarqawi declared allegiance to al-Baghdadi last November.
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More on this story as new info comes out.
AubreyJ.........
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Updates...
Yahoo News has this report...
Insurgent leader nabbed in Iraq raid
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>>> As of 9:30pm CST, I can not come up with anything new on this report. I’m thinking it will be late tonight or sometime Saturday until anymore new news comes out. Maybe the MNF-I website will be posting something on it.
Check back later. I will update as soon as I can find something to update with...
AJ.........
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>>>3:50am CST, KhaleejTimes.com has this report out and it goes in part like this... “We captured a figure who was a senior Al Qaeda member and we suspected that he was Abu Omar Al Baghdadi but after initial investigations it was proven it was not Abu Omar Al Baghdadi. But he was a senior Al Qaeda leader,” said Iraqi military spokesman Qassim Moussawi...
Read the rest at link below...

Detained Qaeda man not Baghdadi: Iraqi officials
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Well... We’ll just have to wait and see how this report pans out over the next few hours...
AJ.........
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>>> 5:00am CST, The Guardian.co.uk website has this story out this morning and it goes along with the above story.
Click it out at link below...
Top al-Qaida Official Taken in Iraq Raid
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Being Al-Mousawi declined to give us the suspect's name today... It might be a day or two until we ever find out who they really caught.
If something new comes up, I will update...
AJ.........
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UPDATE late Saturday morning, March 10, 2007
11:00am CST: I ran across this report by the Site Institute website that had an interesting take on the Baghdadi story. It starts off like this... The Islamic State of Iraq issued a statement today, Saturday, March 10, 2007, denying yet again the arrest of its Emir and Emir of the Believers, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi...
Read the rest at link below...
Islamic State of Iraq Denies the Most Recent Claim of the Arrest of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Believes Such is Evidence of Iraqi Government Failure
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Again I say this... If something new comes up, I will update...
AJ.........

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