Denial on al-Qaeda arrest report

Laos News.Net
Friday 9th May, 2008

United States military sources in Iraq have denied reports that Iraqi security forces have detained the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Arabic television station al-Arabiya had earlier reported that Abu Hamza al-Muhajir had been arrested in a joint Iraqi-US operation in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Muhajir is the successor to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a US air strike in June 2006.

Also known as Abu Ayyab al-Masri has a US reward of US$5 million on his head.

The confusion was apparently due to the fact that the detainee has the same name as the al-Qaeda leader.

The arrest would have been a major blow for al-Qaeda and other Sunni insurgents in Iraq.

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Anonymous
05-09-08, 10:47 AM

Denial on al-Qaeda arrest report

maybe they have made his body disspeared to save 5 million.

Anonymous
05-09-08, 08:14 PM

Maybe they let there buddy go again save 5 million and keep it’s death squad with a leader.
His group AQI only makes up about 3 to 5 percent of the insurgency.
So what is the big deal he’s a nobody

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