new al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been in jail in Egypt for seven years.

[LSK]

"A prominent Cairo lawyer says the Egyptian man identified by the US as the new al-Qaeda leader in Iraq has been in jail in Egypt for seven years.

The lawyer, Mamdouh Ismail, who has represented Egyptian Islamists for many years, says he met the man days ago in a jail on the edge of Cairo.

He says the apparent contradictions in information may be part of a disinformation campaign by both sides. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5153364.stm

[niyad]

1. what??? this govt lie??? say it isn't so!!!

[malaise]

16. LOL

Everything is a lie:rofl: :rofl: :popcorn:

[uppityperson]

2. exxcellent find.

:rofl: oops, back to the drawing board.

[Turbineguy]

3. Did not the good

doctor Ayman-al "do-no-harm" Zawahiri spend time in an Egyptian jail?

[LSK]

8. maybe they got some kind of prison release program??

[Raydawg1234]

4. so they can have an excuse as to why US troops need to stay permanently

as long as there is Al Queda there.

[Double T]

5. That is what $44 Billion spent on intelligence will buy you.........

will the next Iraq al-Qaeda insurgent leader boogie man please sign in and tell us your name.

[LSK]

6. and please tell us if you are available for your vacation in Iraq

[CJCRANE]

7. The Egyptians are our allies

so maybe they'll let him out of jail to go take up his new position in Iraq as official boogeyman of the month.

[Ghost Dog]

9. Happy to give this the fifth

recommendation <g>

[Joanne98]

10. By one side primarily

[autorank]

11. Wow, lets get the final word on this. This is like the 19 hijackers, many

of whom were elsewhere on 911 and still today. I remember seeing one of the "named" in Pakistan a few days afterwords, one of the networks. He was irate saying he was working that day and he works every day, WTF are they talking about. It was amazing.

Zarquawri was killed twice or divided into and killed again. The best comment I heard on that was right here in HamdenRice's post "The man who never was, is no more." One of the best posts ever on DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1385799

The good news is that the tyrants are lousy at disinfo and they get creamed on the internet.

If this is true, they're going down for a mandatory eight count and the bout may turn into a TKO.

We'll see.

[Zodiak]

12. This is ridiculous

Let me guess...there will never be a word about this in the US press.

[LSK]

13. media blackout in US , common knowledege everywhere else

Seems a lot of that going around lately.

[Zodiak]

14. pisses me off

Now I have to go to work and be the ranting lunatic who thinks that the new Al Queda leader in Iraq may be really in jail in Egypt. Then I show them the article.

I can only do this so many times a year without seriously losing friends.

[Skidmore]

15. We need to KO this tidbit if it stands the hopeof seing the light of

day in the US media.

[C_U_L8R]

17. How is this possible ????

Just when you think Bush couldn't be any less credible...
there he goes.. proving yet again that there are new depths
that mankind has never sunk to before. How impressive !!!