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..........

Danish Police Foil Planned Terrorist Bomb Attack - Eight Men Arrested

EuroNews.net brings us this story and it starts off like this... The Danish authorities say they have foiled a planned terrorist bomb attack. Eight men suspected of having direct links with the Al Qaeda leadership have been arrested.
Read the rest HERE
* Has News Video

IDF and ISA Foil Major Terrorist Attack - Nineteen Hamas Terrorists Arrested

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs released this press release today, [Tuesday] through the Prime Minister's Office. It starts off like this... Nineteen Hamas terrorists from Kalkilya were arrested last month in a joint ISA-IDF operation. They were planning to explode a vehicle laden with approximately 100 kg. of explosives in the greater Tel Aviv area during Passover.

In the context of a wave of arrests that was carried out recently in Kalkilya, it has become clear that Hamas is working to immediately perpetrate serious attacks, including against the Israeli home front, following a period in which the organization built up its strength and its capabilities.

From ongoing ISA investigations, it is evident that the terrorists intended to perpetrate a series of various attacks including the aforementioned. A commercial vehicle had already been prepared and loaded with approximately 100 kg. of powerful explosives and considerable shrapnel...
Read the rest HERE

>>> YNETnews.com has this take on the story...
Terror Attack Foiled