Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader 'killed'

[jannyk]

Breaking on BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/5408924.stm

Reports from Iraq say the militant leader who took over from the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as al-Qaeda leader in the country has been killed.

[yourout]

1. There are several thousand more waiting in line to take over and....

the line grows longer by the second thanks to our spreading Freedom to the middle east.

[Born Free]

8. Mission Accomplished!

Break out the $20 million celebration folks, happy days are here again - just in time for the midterm elections!

[Riddler]

15. Gee, if I were an Al Qaeda leader, I would be scared sh*tless every time

there was bad news for the Bush administration because it would be a sure sign one of them would be killed.

[Dr Fate]

2. Is he the #2 leader or the #3 leader?

Or is this who Bin Laden changed his name to?

[patrick t. cakes]

3. bin laden was in iraq??

oh, not that leader.

[jannyk]

4. Got to be #2 - it's always #2 n/t

[Bluebear]

5. Yay! We got number TWO!

What did he "mastermind"? :crazy:

[LiberalHeart]

6. CNN saying nope, never mind...

[RebelOne]

11. CNN just reporting not dead. n/t

[TheWatcher]

7. AGAIN?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Heeey Rocky, Watch me pull a terrorist out of my hat!"

"AGAIN?!!!!!! Bullwinkle, that trick never works!"

[Eugene]

9. Reuters: US military denies killing al Qaeda leader in Iraq

US military denies killing al Qaeda leader in Iraq
05 Oct 2006 08:21:43 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Thursday denied reports
it had killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri.

"There was a raid where we thought he may have been among those killed.
We are still doing DNA tests but we do not believe coalition forces have
killed al-Masri," U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Barry
Johnson told Reuters.

Earlier, an Iraqi government source, who did not want to be named, said
Masri and three of his aides were killed in the western Iraqi town of
Haditha on Wednesday after U.S. forces launched an airstrike and ground
assault on a safe house.

Masri's predecessor, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed
in a U.S. airstrike in June.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL530114.htm

[thecrow]

16. WAIT A MINUTE ! Where are they getting all this DNA to compare?

I mean, are the families lining up to submit DNA to compare?
Does joining Al-Queda give you another gene?

:wtf:

[jannyk]

10. Yep, Auntie Beeb has changed her headline to:

"Iraqis test dead militant's DNA"

Number Two Lives On. Apparently we only got 26, 43 and 79. Of course, we'll never ever get that sneaky # 6.

As a sideline, How come they have this guys DNA on file?

[intaglio]

12. YAWN

eom

[pinniped]

13. Capturing this guy's alleged driver or whatever the hell he allegedly....

was is always a precursor to an alleged capture or alleged kill.

Making an al-Zarqawi video of him not knowing how to use his machinegun was a precursor to his alleged death.

You just had to know they were going to make their propaganda creation disappear after those videos he supposedly made. I knew they were getting ready to pull the plug.

They constantly put al-Zarqawi in the newz during their propaganda creation's last few weeks and back in the heads of stupid Merkans so they could kill him off to score points. It worked for a while.

They are pulling the propaganda plugs faster now that these assholes need to distract from the GOPuke man/boy scandals.

Tomorrow they will announce a new leader and have him allegedly dead in a few days.

The time tables have all been moved up.

This is all BS.

These assholes won't get too many point with this dude. They didn't play him up as long as al-Zarqawi.

You lose, try again.

I will never believe this shit.


Masri's predecessor, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed
in a U.S. airstrike in June.

[Evergreen Emerald]

14. tinfoil hat: how did they know so soon after Zarqawi's death who

the new number two was? Did they get a press release? How did they get the DNA on the new number 2 so they can identify him? They needed a new enemy for us to hate. I don't believe that any of these people are who Bush says they are.

And finally, hmmm October and another republican scandal: distraction.

[uppityperson]

17. Deja Vu