Iraq:
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Iraq Al-Qaeda Boss Abu Omar al-Baghdadi 'Is Captured'
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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On Ground Updates
Iraq Al-Qaeda Boss Abu Omar al-Baghdadi 'Is Captured'
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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> Times Online has the following report up on their website this Thursday afternoon and it starts off like this…
Iraqi forces said today that they had arrested one of the most wanted al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq, even as his suicide bombers killed more than 70 people in attacks in and around Baghdad… Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a leader of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq, was held in the capital after a tip-off, said Major General Qasim Atta, Baghdad’s security spokesman… The Islamic State of Iraq is a shadowy, al-Qaeda-linked, Islamist umbrella group that in 2006 declared an independent caliphate in mainly Sunni West Baghdad, as well as in areas to the north and west. Modelled on the Taleban in Afghanistan, it murdered and intimidated anyone who did not adhere to its strict Islamist rulings…
Read the full report HERE
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>> The Washington Post has this troubling report posted up on their website this afternoon and it starts off like this…
Two suicide bombers killed more than 70 people Thursday in the bloodiest day in Iraq this year, grim evidence that Sunni insurgents remain capable of carrying out powerful attacks as U.S. forces begin to withdraw…
Read the rest at link below…
Suicide Bombers Kill More Than 70 in Baghdad, Diyala Province
Above link has nice, off topic, slideshow
Iraqi forces said today that they had arrested one of the most wanted al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq, even as his suicide bombers killed more than 70 people in attacks in and around Baghdad… Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a leader of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq, was held in the capital after a tip-off, said Major General Qasim Atta, Baghdad’s security spokesman… The Islamic State of Iraq is a shadowy, al-Qaeda-linked, Islamist umbrella group that in 2006 declared an independent caliphate in mainly Sunni West Baghdad, as well as in areas to the north and west. Modelled on the Taleban in Afghanistan, it murdered and intimidated anyone who did not adhere to its strict Islamist rulings…
Read the full report HERE
.
>> The Washington Post has this troubling report posted up on their website this afternoon and it starts off like this…
Two suicide bombers killed more than 70 people Thursday in the bloodiest day in Iraq this year, grim evidence that Sunni insurgents remain capable of carrying out powerful attacks as U.S. forces begin to withdraw…
Read the rest at link below…
Suicide Bombers Kill More Than 70 in Baghdad, Diyala Province
Above link has nice, off topic, slideshow
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