Iraq's Most-Wanted Terrorist 'Surrounded' (I thought we got him already)

[sabra]

Here we go again....

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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4318492

Iraq's Most-Wanted Terrorist 'Surrounded'

"PA"

Iraqi security forces have surrounded Iraq’s most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the country’s interior minister said today.

Al-Zarqawi, the leader of the terror network al Qaida in Iraq, has eluded arrest while kidnapping and killing people in Iraq. Yesterday, militants posted a video on the internet showing the purported execution of a man identifying himself as Interior Ministry official Col. Ryadh Gatie Olyway.


“We have not arrested al Zarqawi,” Interior Minister Falah al-Nakib said during a news conference. “He is surrounded in a certain area, and we hope for the best. This operation is ongoing. We hope that the situation will be completely different in Iraq at the end of this year.”

Al-Nakib said al-Zarqawi was moving in “more than one area,” but he refused to give details.

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[Krupskaya]

1. They got Osama?????

I thought bin Laden was the biggest Iraqi terrorist!!!!! Isn't that why we went to war in Iraq??????? Because he's Iraqi??????? Or something????????

/sarcasm

[sabra]

5. We aren't too concerned about him...

[Lerkfish]

2. Its GOLDSTEIN!

from 1984.

[allemand]

3. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi "surrounded in more than one area" (sic)

http://www.poteaudailynews.com/articles/2005/03/26/ap/headlines/d8940mlg0.txt

:crazy:

[Viking12]

29. "He's moving between more than one area"

:WTF:

How does that get interpreted as being "surrounded"???????

[Ganja Ninja]

4. OK! Well let us know when you have him.

Shades of Tora Bora!:boring:

[rocktivity]

6. This is from The Onion, right? RIGHT???

"We have not arrested al Zarqawi," Interior Minister Falah al-Nakib said during a news conference. "He is surrounded in a certain area, and we hope for the best. This operation is ongoing. We hope that the situation will be completely different in Iraq at the end of this year."

Al-Nakib said al-Zarqawi was moving in “more than one area,” but he refused to give details.

How can he be "surrounded in a certain area" and "moving in more than one area" at the same time? More to the point, if he IS moving in more than one area, then you HAVEN'T got him surrounded, have you?

:crazy:
rocknation

[Az_lefty]

9. They've got Iraq surrounded

[Career Prole]

30. Well sure! I bet the whole cordon moves around with him, like

one of those halftime marching band performances.
Probably impressive as all get-out from the nosebleed seats! :bounce:

[rugger]

7. If insurgents had half a brain...

They would not do anything now, just quietly train somewhere, stockpile weapons, etc. The US would then consider things to be going well, etc. and we would get our forces THE HELL OUT OF THERE

Then the insurgents could carry on against the feeble Iraqi army.

[Rose Siding]

14. The US won't quit the proximity of all that oily deliciousness

At least not while the Iraqi army is too feeble to defend its "interests".

[toopers]

27. Of course, that would violate the reason for the insurgency,

which, supposedly, is to get the US out of Iraq.

[leesa]

8. Zarqawi again?!! Can't they drag any other dead men out for

capture, and re-capture, etc.?

He's east, west ,north and south of Tikrit

[AlCzervik]

10. how many times will this get reported?

i think this time it's being leaked out to take the heat off Bushwa after the report came out about them losing Binladen in tora Bora.

[sabra]

11. It's the UBL effect

bringing it up again is a political strategy...

[matcom]

12. PLEASE tell me someone has been bookmarking all of these stories

along with publication names and dates

PLEASE!

[underpants]

24. Here you go-Saddam and Chemical Ali both killed THEN captured

Some Evidence Suggests Saddam Dead: Bush
Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, April 25, 2003
http://english.people.com.cn/200304/25/eng20030425_1157...
US President Bush said in a television interview Thursday that there is some evidence suggesting Saddam Hussein is either dead or "at the very minimum was severely wounded." Bush also said US troops would remain in Iraq "as long as necessary."

DNA tests after missiles strike 'Saddam convoy'
Sunday June 22, 2003
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,98271...
American specialists were carrying out DNA tests last night on human remains believed by US military sources to be those of Saddam Hussein and one of his sons, The Observer can reveal.

Officials suspect Saddam was killed in bombing
Posted 4/10/2003
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-04-10-sadd...
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence has no clear information on Saddam Hussein's whereabouts, but the betting in the Pentagon's executive offices is that the Iraqi dictator lies dead under a pile of rubble in Baghdad, according to defense and intelligence officials.

But the theory given most credence is that Saddam died in Monday's bomber attack on a home near a Baghdad restaurant.
"The official take from the Pentagon is that Saddam is 'unfound,' " a senior defense intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. "Most along the E-Ring (the Pentagon's outermost hallway and executive suite) think he's under the rubble."
A Defense Department intelligence official said an abrupt end to an electronic intelligence intercept of Iraqi leadership conversations indicated that Saddam and his sons were at the site at the time of the bombing.
"The signal died when the bombs hit," the official said.

Saddam Captured 'Like a Rat' in Raid
Sunday, December 14, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105706,00.html

Saddam Hussein arrested in Iraq
Sunday, 14 December, 2003, 17:04 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3317429.st...
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Pentagon: 'Chemical Ali' Killed in Attack
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/7/20493...

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon believes "Chemical Ali," Saddam Hussein's cousin who ordered a chemical attack on Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988, is dead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Monday.

'Chemical Ali' reported dead
Monday, 7 April, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2925375.stm


Officials: Body of 'Chemical Ali' Found in Basra
Monday, April 07, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83383,00.html


'Chemical Ali' Captured in Iraq
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95314,00.html


'Chemical Ali' in U.S. custody
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/21/sprj.irq.... /
DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali," is in U.S. custody, military officials tell CNN.

[dubyaD40web]

13. Bush poll numbers down = al-Zarqawi story

[Guckert]

15. Zarqawi Surrounded

(Drudge)

Iraqi Interior Minister Falah al-Nakib announced today that AbuMusab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia (Iraq), hasbeen surrounded.

The Sofia News Agency reports the Interior Minister as saying, "Heis surrounded in a certain area, and we hope for the best'... Developing...

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*DIVERT* *DISTRACT* *DISTORT*
One more time to divert attention from Terri Mess...
They probably have the country surrounded.

[Dhalgren]

16. Oh my gods, what a fucking joke!

Ha-ha!

[merwin]

17. 6 hours from now they will say he's been captured, then 6 hours from

that they will say that he slipped through their fingers.

[Memekiller]

18. Way to take Schiavo off the front page, Rove!

Wish you would have done this a year ago.

[cally]

19. I hope it is true

and not another distraction.

[negativenihil]

20. gee...

...wasn't there some other terrorist that was surrounded?
In Tora Bora... damn the name escapes me...
Tall dude, with a beard, yanno?

Wonder what ever happened to him...

(yes, this is *slightly* sarcastic ;)

[adigal]

21. He's surrounded, AGAIN????

And Osama bin Laden will be sending us another tape soon - threathening America and the pet-goat reading president!

[EBK]

22. Funny stuff ! eom

[underpants]

23. Missing a leg he can only run in circles

Sorry I couldn't resist.

[Memekiller]

25. Drudge takes link down...

Score yet another f@#$ up to Drudge.

[EBK]

26. He did say...

"Maybe by the end of this year, we will see a change, depending on the political situation.”


EXACTLY whose "political situation" was he talking about??

The "end of the year" change would be perfect timing - just before 2006 mid term elections.


I presume this whole script has been long ago. A lot of planning goes into creating the perfect lie.

[0007]

28. Duh?

A five gonger folks!!

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