Iraqi forces capture Zarqawi aide - state TV

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/NUE751356.htm

Iraqi forces capture Zarqawi aide - state TV

BAGHDAD, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Iraqi Interior Ministry forces have captured a senior aide to al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraqi state television said on Monday.

Iraqiya television named the man as Abu Farouq and said he was captured with five others in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of the capital.

[Greeby]

1. GOLDSTEIN!!!!!!!

:hide:

[hobbit709]

2. Another #2

Oh boy!!!!!

[NV Whino]

5. No, I think an aide is a 2.2

[stop the bleeding]

3. Look kids Big Ben Parliment!?!?!

:crazy:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Who are they going to get to make the coffee now?

:shrug:

[Tight_rope]

6. Capture?....I thought they killed him last week..last month...last year!

All of the above!

[antonialee839]

7. I was wondering when they'd catch the number 2 man again.

[IsItJustMe]

8. Is He real or a figment of * imagination

Don't laugh. It's a real possibility this guy don't exist.

And if he does, he might not be what we think he is, as defined by * and the corporate media.

Boogie men are whipped up ever day to fit someones purpose.

[Mithras61]

22. Me & Spock on...

"The USS Make Shit Up"! :D

http://www.voltaire.net/mp3/Voltaire-The_USS_Make-Shit-Up.mp3

[markam]

9. Senior Aide?

Jeez, what does a guy have to do in order to be promoted to No. 2. With the turnover in that position, I would think even the al Qaeda summer intern should have made No. 2 by now.

[ECH1969]

10. The insurgents in Iraq use a cell structure

That means there might be 400 little groups of Tawid al-Jihad each made up of three or four people around Iraq. That makes for 400 Zarqawi so called "senior aids", with many hundreds more ready to take their place, thus rendering the term a joke.

[robbedvoter]

11. Oh, goody! We're safe then! Let's now sell our ports to UAE

[IsItJustMe]

15. Love the picture. LOL

[wordpix]

17. great photoshop! thanks

Let's hope they can get this No. 2 to talk without torturing him.

[oasis]

18. Wow. Great pic.

:wow:

[rodeodance]

12. "Iraiqi forces"- done did the capturing?--umm...--guess They are

standing up-----so can the troops come home now?

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. #2 captured; 20 apply for open position n/t

[still_one]

14. what is even more amazing is the report on yahoo

indicates that this has not even been confirmed

[jokerman93]

16. Number two man!!!

Hunt him down! Smoke him out! Dead or Alive!

Mastermind of the Week - Emanuel Goldstein...will not...escape...this time...

:crazy:

[daleo]

19. Is this the guy that fixes the photocopy machine?

No wait - they got him a few weeks back. Maybe this is the guy who delivers the bottled water to the office.

[drfresh]

20. How many senior aides does this guy have?!

Seriously, somebody should do a count of all the times that we've captured or killed Zarqawi's #2, or the #3 man in Al-Qaeda. This is just propaganda.

[Earth_First]

21. That's funny, isn't the United States the "Iraqi" 'state media'?

:eyes:

[pinniped]

23. The al-Zarqawi aides are in an infinite loop.

.

[IDemo]

24. Key al-Qaida in Iraq figure arrested

ALEXANDRA ZAVIS
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces announced on Monday the capture of a senior al-Qaida in Iraq figure, and the U.S. ambassador said the risk of civil war from last week's sectarian violence was over.

Violence throughout Iraq killed 36 people Monday, as fierce fighting broke out between Iraqi commandos and insurgents southeast of the capital. But sectarian clashes have declined sharply since the bloodletting that followed the destruction of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra, and Baghdad residents returned to their jobs after three days of a government-imposed curfew.

"We were at home for three days doing nothing," tea vendor Abbas Kudir said. "We are of limited income. We earn money when people can come and buy tea normally. We hope the government will pay attention to our difficulties."

Sunni Arab leaders said they were prepared to end their boycott of the talks on a new government if Shiites return mosques seized in reprisal attacks against Sunnis and meet other unspecified demands.

"That crisis is over," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad declared.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/13976449.htm

[WestHoustonDem]

25. Let me guess - the Number 3 - again? n/t

[BattyDem]

26. ROFL ... I was just going to post that same message!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Wordie]

37. LOL...that makes three of us! First thing I thought of too, when I read

that! How many times have we captured or killed #3 now?

It's like that carnival game, you knock down one, and another pops up in it's place. :(

[Zynx]

27. Did we squeeze another #2?

[IDemo]

28. "Number two? Now serving number two......"

"Number three? You're Number Two now. Number Four, step up right over here, you're now Number Three. But you'll be Number Two in a day or two. And then, watch out!"

[IDemo]

29. UN: World Al Qaeda Population Reaches 6.5 Billion

bin Laden, and 6.499999999999 billion "Number Two's"

[Mithras61]

30. Has anyone ever hear of him before?

The captured al-Qaida figure was identified as Abou al-Farouq, a Syrian who financed and coordinated groups working for Iraq's most wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, according to an Interior Ministry officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to address the media.

I googled <"Abou al-Farouq"> and <"Abu al-Farouq"> and found nothing. Searching for <farouq "al qaeda"> returned 42,100 hits, most of which seemed to be about something other than "Abou al-Farouq." I did another search for <"al-Farouq" "al Qaeda"> and found an OMAR al-Farouq in SE Asia.

I believe they're just making sh!t up as they go (sort of like Voltaire's song!) :D

[54anickel]

31. Funny guy, "...the brink of civil war, but the Iraqis decided that they

didn't want to go down that path..."

Meanwhile, the US State Department simply brushes aside the Sunni's additional conditions. Geez, how long before they get ticked about having their concerns brushed aside? How "good faith" can the discussions be if the Sunni concerns are marginalized like that?

[Wordie]

32. Key al-Qaida in Iraq figure arrested (US ambassador: civil war risk over)

Posted on Mon, Feb. 27, 2006
Key al-Qaida in Iraq figure arrested
ALEXANDRA ZAVIS
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces announced on Monday the capture of a senior al-Qaida in Iraq figure, and the U.S. ambassador said the risk of civil war from last week's sectarian violence was over.

Violence throughout Iraq killed 36 people Monday, as fierce fighting broke out between Iraqi commandos and insurgents southeast of the capital. But sectarian clashes have declined sharply since the bloodletting that followed the destruction of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra, and Baghdad residents returned to their jobs after three days of a government-imposed curfew.

Sunni Arab leaders said they were prepared to end their boycott of the talks on a new government if Shiites return mosques seized in reprisal attacks against Sunnis and meet other unspecified demands.

"I think the country came to the brink of a civil war, but the Iraqis decided that they didn't want to go down that path, and came together," the ambassador (U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad) told CNN. "Clearly the terrorists who plotted that attack wanted to provoke a civil war. It looked quite dangerous in the initial 48 hours, but I believe that the Iraqis decided to come together."

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13976449.htm

The article also mentioned that there have been least 2,291 members of the U.S. military who have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an AP count.

[Nickster]

33. Oh, well they say the risk of civil war is all over now. That must be it

then. Didn't they say the war would be over when we caught Saddam too? Just asking.

[Webster Green]

34. Mision Accomplished!

Finally!

Bring the troops home!

[IDemo]

35. -->>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2136084

[Wordie]

36. Self-delete: my thread now moved here.

[Dem2theMax]

38. But I have a question.

It says, "Iraqiya television named the man as Abu Farouq and said he was captured with five others"

I want to know 'five other' whats? Extra arms or legs? You just know the 2nd hand man (so far Zarqawi hasn't needed any extra hands that I know of) is the one responsible for the extra arms and legs Zarqawi has to lug around for all those times we blow one off and he has to grow another at a moments notice.

:evilgrin: