Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi was Captured, Then Released

[NVMojo]

January 24, 2005
VOA News

A suicide bomber from Saudi Arabia, who survived a failed attempt to blow up the Jordanian mission Baghdad in December, alleges that Iraqi police may have captured, and then released, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, two months ago. Both U.S. and Iraqi officials could not confirm the claims made by the suicide bomber.

On a video disk provided by Iraq's interior ministry, the badly-burned man, identified as Ahmed Abdullah al-Shaiyah, tells Iraqi interrogators about his journey from Saudi Arabia to Baghdad between late October and December to volunteer for suicide missions.

He says he crossed into Iraq from Syria, where a smuggler met him at the border and eventually transported him to the town of Ramadi, in the restive Anbar province, to receive training from insurgents. Ramadi is close to Fallujah, which in late October and early November, was still a stronghold for the Jordanian-born terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and other militant Sunni Arab groups.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-01-24-voa25.cfm

[bluestateguy]

1. We call those uh-oh's

[pinniped]

2. Who writes this crapola?

--to receive training from insurgents--

Always one step behind the international terror mastermind.

B.S.

[Rush1184]

4. The spin just keeps getting lamer...

Seriously, you think the American public would be insulted by this shit, but they just keep begging for more.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Can you say Tora Bora?

Good, I knew you could...

We will leave as soon as Iraq stabilizes...but Iraq just never seems to stabilize. How about that!

[smiley]

5. conflicting reports?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1180662#1181513

[Rose Siding]

6. No. From the other article...

While he was awaiting his mission, he says, he was told that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of a terrorist network responsible for numerous bombings and beheadings, had been captured by Iraqi police only to be let go after seven hours because they didn't recognize him. Iraqi officials have declined to comment on previous reports that Zarqawi had been captured and let go.