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Iraq national security advisor: number 2 AQ in Iraq arrested
BAGHDAD, Sept. 3 — Iraqi armed forces have arrested the No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the country’s national security leader said Sunday.
The leader, Hamed Jumaa Faris Juri al-Saaydi, was captured within the past few days near Baqubah, along with 20 other senior members of the Sunni Arab insurgent group, which was responsible for savage beheadings of kidnapped foreigners and suicide attacks that sometimes killed dozens of civilians in a single strike, said the security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie.
Saaydi was second to Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Rubaie said. Masri had succeeded insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in June by a U.S. airstrike on a safe house in Baqubah.
“We now think al-Qaeda in Iraq is suffering a great deal and disintegrating,” Rubaie said in a news conference at the U.S.-controlled Green Zone that was broadcast live across the Middle East. “The al-Qaeda organization is suffering from a leadership crisis.”
Saaydi, also known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, ordered the February attack on the golden-domed Shiite shrine in Samara that ignited the ongoing ferocious wave of sectarian killings, Rubaie said. He accused Saaydi of trying to spark a civil war between Iraq’s Sunnis and Shiite Muslims.
Rubaie said Iraqi forces had been tracking Saaydi’s movements since the killing of Zarqawi three months ago. Saaydi was hiding inside a home surrounded by women and children whom he was using as a “human shield,” Rubaie said.
Sounds to me like that “Bush creation” Zarqawi’s demise helped lead Iraqi forces straight to AQ in Iraq’s now-number 2 terrorist. Of course, he’s probably a “Bush creation” too …
Update/Related: Jules Crittenden recaps the progress we’ve made in the war on terror this summer, and reminds us that, though the war on terror will be a long one, we must never waver in our quest for victory.
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This is such good news. Again we see how the “insurgency”, terrorists actually, are falling apart. This is only going to lead to more intel, and better intel, about the rest of the organization. I do believe that AQ’s days are numbered. Ya just can’t spin this as bad news, but I am certain our friends in the leftist media will certainly try. And our comrades who are left of center will believe that spin. Ahhhh but that makes life fun.
– Lorica
Oh you know they will try. Most likely they’ll do their best to ignore this news and keep repeating the quagmire and failure crapola.
But this is great news. Each victory should be trumpeted for all to hear. Let’s see what the media does with it. Caution: Holding your breath can cause brain damage. Liberal tendencies may then arise.
HEADLINE: No. 2 AQ Man in Iraq captured, Bush still refuses to say Iraq is a quagmire.
Yes I can see that on the front page of the NYT. – Lorica
Prediction: if the MSM and the rest of the left wing can’t find a way to ignore this good news, they’ll spin this with the usual ‘yes, we got this one, but there are dozens more to take his place thanks to Bushitler’ meme.
Most likely, Marshall’s right – they’ll pretend this (or the rest of the good news in Jules Crittenden’s essay) never happened.
More likely the MSM will try to tie this to Bush’s poll numbers and the upcoming election.
Saaydi was hiding inside a home surrounded by women and children whom he was using as a “human shield” Rubaie said.
Just like the scum cowards that they are. They are the most contemptuous vile creatures on the face of this earth. I will rest easy only when I know that their ilk have all been wiped off the face of this planet.
Unfortunately, there are any number of willing replacements…
Sounds to me like that “Bush creation” Zarqawi’s demise helped lead Iraqi forces straight to AQ in Iraq’s now-number 2 terrorist. Of course, he’s probably a “Bush creation” too….
Yea right like Global Warming is an Al Gore creation.
camojack writes: Unfortunately, there are any number of willing replacements…
I don’t agree with that statement camojack, for the simple reason that not everyone has leadership skills and that is what they need. and also along with the fear that is going on around there that also a creates those kind of islamofacist types not to wana stick their heads up out of the hole that they are hiding in.
Well, that’s key, Phil. Wipe out the leaders with extreme prejudice and the wanna-be’s will cower.
Great news, but alas, we could kill all thier top guys but the lame stream media will bury this under headlines such as, ECONOMY IN THE TANK, ROVE, LIBBY AND CHENEY INVESTIGATION MUST GO ON FOR THE PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO KNOW, 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB, CALIFORNIA WILL GIVE ILLEGALS IN STATE FREE TUITION, the list goes on and on, God, but the lsm makes me wanta hurl.
This is the nature of guerilla warfare, so it will always be like this until they are either extinct or stop poking the giant in the eye with a sharp stick.
When enough blood and treasure has been spilled and spent, the people of America will get serious about this invasion. We will open open our eyes as to the reasons we face this plague and eradicate its symptoms. Then we can begin working on a cure and that is a deep rooted and long list.
Federally funded schools need to have their trough turned upside down. That action alone will send many of these cockroaches scurrying for a new shelter. Think of these Islamic strongholds as boats and money is the water. Drain the leech infested ponds or start sinking boats. Standing around watching the weeds go to seed is exactly what they want.