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US soldiers attacked in Iraq amid speculation over al-Qaeda leader
May 9, 2008, 7:00 GMT
Baghdad - Insurgents in the western Iraqi province of Anbar have killed four US soldiers, the US military said Friday.
The marines were killed in fighting on May 2, the military said.
Two army contract workers were killed Thursday in a rocket attack on a coalition base in the southern city of Basra.
Four civilians and four soldiers were injured in the attack.
'This was the first attack of this kind in Basra since March 27,' a military spokesman said.
Suspected al-Qaeda terrorists attacked a patrol Thursday evening near the city of Ramadi in the west of the country, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.
They killed four Iraqi soldiers and injured nine, the report said.
The US Army got involved in the fighting and killed six of the attackers, the report said.
An al-Qaeda commander by the name of Abu Qatada, believed to be from Saudi Arabia, was killed by US troops Thursday evening near the northern city of Samarra, security sources said.
There was no evidence Friday to back up a claim made by the Iraqi Interior Ministry on Thursday that it had located Abu Hamza al- Mujahir, believed to be the leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Iraq, near the city of Mosul.
The ministry claimed police had arrested al-Mujahir overnight.
There have been contradictory reports about the al-Qaeda leader's identity for years.
US Army officials had speculated that al-Muhajir was an Egyptian, who also goes by the name of Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who is also sometimes named as the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, is considered a frontman or an invention of the terrorists who want to give al-Qaeda an 'Iraqi face.'
An Iraqi police official said on Wednesday that al-Baghdadi was the leader of the so-called Islamic States in Iraq.
The official said that al-Baghdadi was a former officer in the Iraqi Army from the city of Haditha, called Hamid Daud Assawi.
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lets just nuke this worthless muslim sandbox and build a world shopping center.
Why are the UN pussy paper tigers not sending in a battalion to wipe out these Hezblaghblagh parasites.?
Get rid of these scum from the planet, hunt down and kill their leaders where ever they are with a passion.
Iran is behind all this crap, hold them accountable, back to the stone ages where these rage monkeys belong, no prisoners.
You guys crack me - you believe the propaganda that has been put
forward by this admin. King George and his sidekick Vice-King
Dick did;nt find any WMD in Iraq.
They don't care about US citizens -they just intend to foster
more instability in other places like Syria, Lebanon, and Gulf States
Its vital for their business interests. As they say ' its all good
in da hood'.
LOLOL. Don't you folks learn from lessons of Watergate-
you really suck up to Goebbels-like spin from DEms/REpublicans
in D.C.
They really are same cow feces any way you look at it.
You guys should get that feces out of your eyes prior to making
such outlandish statements.
Several countries in the 1990's, the U.S. included, refused to take bin Laden when he was offered. The problem was that holding him was seen as turning the nation where he was housed into a potential terrorist target, and endangered the lives of Americans living overseas.
With U.S. forces in Iraq currently drawing down, no one wants to motivate suicide bombers bent on getting the guy out. The U.S. might have him; but won't admit it.
This is not like WW II, where capturing an officer demoralizes the enemy. The only 'win' is in taking territory than the enemy controls, and right now that's the Iraqi Army's job.
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/world/middleeast/09mosul.html?ref=world
'BAGHDAD — The last words of a suicide bomber in Mosul were a rallying cry for Muslims to join the fight against Americans. His taking-off point was his experience at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In two accounts — a transcript of his conversation in a jihadist chat room and a suicide message on tape — both posted on Web sites devoted to Al Qaeda after his death, the bomber, Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi, 29, described his detention as “torture” carried out by infidels. He was in Guantánamo from 2002 to 2005.'
Latest bit of U.S. policy stupidity:
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/world/asia/09general.html?th&emc=th
'WASHINGTON — When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical job at a pivotal time in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
But nearly two months later, the military has quietly canceled the assignment of General Hood, a 33-year Army veteran who was excoriated in the Pakistani news media for one of his previous jobs: commander of the United States prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. During General Hood’s command from 2004 to 2006, military authorities force-fed with tubes detainees who were engaging in hunger strikes at the Guantánamo prison, a step they justified as necessary to prevent the prisoners from committing suicide to protest their indefinite confinement. Also during General Hood’s tenure, reports that an American guard may have desecrated a Koran stirred wide protests in the Islamic world.'
' force-fed with tubes detainees who were engaging in hunger strikes '
Saving someones life is a horrible thing .....
Do whatever you have to to get info from these parasites, who cares how much they suffer.?
Then kill the scum.
Why let them go and have to kill them later on, who gives a rats what the freakshow leftwing carebears think, they will be screaming like ladyboys when their family cops it if these losers are not dealt with.
Keeping them alive is a total waste of perfectly good oxygen.
'Several countries in the 1990's, the U.S. included, refused to take bin Laden when he was offered.'
Finally you admit that the Clintons could have had bin laden but passed on killing the SOB.
'With U.S. forces in Iraq currently drawing down, no one wants to motivate suicide bombers bent on getting the guy out.'
Makes no sense what so ever.
'
Latest bit of U.S. policy stupidity:'
You are a complete moron. You have been wrong at EVERY TURN yet you presume to judge others as 'stupid'? You are a joke.
'Also during General Hood’s tenure, reports that an American guard may have desecrated a Koran stirred wide protests in the Islamic world.''
Savages behaving accordingly.
What a rag,That pack of lies and waste of paper should be recycled into toilet paper.
I know alot of people who wipe their booty with it on a daily basis.
Then its just crap on top of crap.
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rock n roll fan .May 9th, 2008 - 10:30:51
the best thing i've ever known about Lebenon , is it's Great Hash . Red Leb. , is by far and away , the best hash i have ever smoked . i wish for the Old Days . but no , the Paradise of old Lebenon has been destroyed by the Hatred embodied in hizbolla terrorist scum . Hatred has been born ! i hope that Israel , Uncle Sam , and us Allies , kick your butt off the face off the face of the earth . you people are so screwed-up , it'l be best , when you no longer exist !! kill kill kill is all you can do ; but i guess you got to get them Virgins some way eh ?
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