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..........

Al-Qaida Recording supposedly of Al-Qaida in Iraq Leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Surfaces on Web

An audio recording purported to be of the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, [Abu Ayyub al-Masri] has been posted on the Internet, four days after reports he had been killed in a clash among members of his insurgent group...
Read the story at the VOANews website
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We’ll see...
AubreyJ.........
Government File Photo of abu al-Masri

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader KILLED???

Number One

al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader

KILLED???
(This post on top today – Scroll for newer post below)

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 - Abu Ayyub Al-Masri, the Number ONE al-Qaeda in Iraq Leader is being reported to have been killed during a fire fight with Tribesman north of Baghdad.
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If you remember the events of last year, Abu Ayyub Al-Masri is the one who took over al-Qaida in Iraq after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed on June 7th.
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I’ll be questionable with this news for in the past these kinds of reports have come rushing out, just to be found out later to not be accurate or true..

More to come on this ongoing story...
AubreyJ......... ...

Let’s see what is being reported out there:...
>>> The Monsters and Critics website has this take on the story...
Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader killed in militant clashes

>>> CHRON.com has this report...
Iraq probes reports of al-Masri's death

>>> 10:45am CDT
The International Herald Tribune website has a good read on this story that starts off like this... Iraqi officials have received reports that the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was killed by Sunni tribesmen, but the chief government spokesman said Tuesday the information has not been confirmed.
Read the rest at link below...
Iraqi government spokesman cites reports that al-Qaida in Iraq leader killed

>>> 3:30pm CDT
TheStar.com website has this report this afternoon that starts off like this... Iraq’s government received reports that the leader of the group “Al Qaeda in Iraq” had been killed but officials said today that the information had not been confirmed and an insurgent coalition insisted he was alive...
Read this story in full at link below...
Insurgents deny reports that Al Qaeda leader dead

>>> 8:00pm CDT
Richard Miniter, PJM Washington editor, who has just returned from assignment in Iraq, has a real good read you might wish to check out at PAJAMAS MEDIA

Above file photo courtesy of CENTCOM