Al Zarqawi Arrested?

[Jack_Dawson]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashai.htm

U.S. military and intelligence sources are denying print and broadcast reports that terrorist Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Iraq, MSNBC reported Tuesday.

MSNBC said senior U.S. military and intelligence sources told it the reports are not true. A newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, al-Bayane, reported in its Tuesday edition that the Jordanian-born terrorist had been arrested in Baqouba, Iraq. Iraqi Kurdistan radio also reported the arrest of al-Zarqawi.

The U.S. military in December said al-Zarqawi likely is in the Baghdad area.

:shrug:

[NMDemDist2]

1. i refuse to give Drudge a click

could you give us a couple paragraphs maybe?

[Jack_Dawson]

5. Updated per your request

[NMDemDist2]

8. thanks, and that was the consensus of DU last night

that the story was BS

it just gives the righties more BS to snow the uninformed. They love the headline sound bite hit and run tactics

[whalerider55]

2. just in time to appear on the floor of congress

on January 5th.

whalerider55

[arcos]

3. first line: ... sources ARE DENYING print and broadcast reports that... nt

[Willy Wonka]

4. Probably a slow news day

and Drudge's losing money for his website.

[GregD]

6. and with that, my friends, they will control the news cycle for a week

RIP USA

[Shopaholic]

7. That big bad Tsunami was taking away too much of the spotlight

on * and showing him up for the ass he is with the slow-response. Got to do something to focus the press elsewhere.

[punpirate]

9. There was a similar report...

... over two months ago. Nothing came of that one, either.

Matt Drudge strikes again.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

10. here's the only source I found through Google News:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly arrested in Iraq
(itar-tass.com)
Updated: 2005-01-04 14:37


Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, whom the US occupation authorities declared to be the "target number one" in Iraq, has been arrested in the city of Baakuba, the Emirate newspaper al-Bayane reported on Tuesday referring to Kurdish sources.

.....

The newspaper's correspondent in Baghdad points out that a report on the seizure of the terrorist, on whom the US put a bounty of US$10 million, was also reported by Iraqi Kurdistan radio, which at one time had been the first to announce the arrest of Saddam Hussein.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi  was captured in Iraq, said Tuesday's Al Bayan, a daily newspaper of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).There have been no official reports about the arrest of the terrorist. Al-Zarqawi, 38, a Jordanian, whose real name is Ahmad al-Khalayleh, aims to turn Iraq into a "new Afghanistan".

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/04/content_405831.htm