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Al-Zarqawi Captured – Report

I’m not sure if I trust this source [1]or not, but…. here goes…

“Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, head of the group suspected of beheading two Bulgarian hostages, has reportedly been arrested in Western Iraq.

Al-Zarqawi has been arrested by Iraqi police and US military close to the border with Syria, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing information posted on the Internet. ”

Let’s assume for the moment that the report is true.
Can you imagine the Donkey Corral Tonight? Why, they will simply be abuzz with the idea that this was tossed in just now for political reasons.

More as I find it.

UPDATE:

The smae site is now issuing denials, says OTB [2].

“Reports about the arrest of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have been denied by representatives of the US Commandment and Iraq’s Interior Ministry. “

Obviously a translation from Cryllic. (No language should have that many cases! I gave up trying to learn it in my high school days, and I’m still slightly twisted from the effort…)

Wouldn’t it be interesting for someone to find articles released by this source, complaining about the Iraq Intel, pre-9/11?

Son of Update:

The report may be in error, but clearly the rumor mill is going crazy because SOMEONE got caught. CNN is up with a report [3]that is so similar as to make one wonder if the first source didn’t simply screw it up… says CNN:

“DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) – Pakistan has arrested a senior al Qaeda figure with a bounty of up to $25 million on his head, Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat told CNN television Thursday.

He said the suspect had been captured during a raid in central Pakistan a few days ago. He did not identify the captive but said he was “a person who is most wanted internationally.”


“The Pakistani president said the arrested person is Tanzanian who is married to an Uzbek woman, and who is wanted by the United States,” the station said.

Al Arabiya said the suspect may be Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Ghailani is the only Tanzanian on the FBI’s most wanted “terrorists” list, for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings by al Qaeda of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

My guess here is this report is the true one… and that the similarity of situaton, caused someone at the Rusian outlet to pop a cork…. Al-Zarqawi also has a $25mUS price on his head and also has been known to live for a time in Tanzania, though he doesn’t claim residency there.