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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Al-Watan sez Zarqawi's planning a major attack |
| 2004-09-24 |
| The BBC Worldwide Monitoring reports that an Arabic website, www.al-watan.com, contained a report on September 22 from Paris by Abd-al-Karim Abu-al-Nasr stating that "Al-Zarqawi striving to compete with Bin-Ladin, planning big attack along the lines of 11 September." Reportedly, the Iraqi intelligence agencies have prepared a report on Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, the commander of the Tawhid wa Jihad group. The BBC Monitoring report states: "Al-Watan has learned from informed European diplomatic sources that a prominent European country concerned with the course of events in Iraq received this Iraqi intelligence service report about Jordanian Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi (whose real name is Ahmad al-Khalayilah, age 38). This report contains the following basic information and elements" |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #12 I'm relaxed now. Sorry for the hot reaction. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6625 2004-09-24 5:36:05 PM |
| #11 A6625 - The title is "hot" and takes you directly to the article on headland.blogspot.com. That is the style here at RB. Relax - Dan's about the most conscientious poster you'll find anywhere on the planet. BTW, welcome. Stay awhile. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-24 5:29:58 PM |
| #10 Oops -- There's a link, but no mention of where it is going. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6625 2004-09-24 5:27:33 PM |
| #9 This was lifted (formatting and all) from headland.blogspot.com -- no attribution or link! |
| Posted by: Anonymous6625 2004-09-24 5:23:07 PM |
| #8 Let's try to see to it that Zarqawi doesn't make it to 39! |
| Posted by: HJ 2004-09-24 2:01:27 PM |
| #7 Time for all good Rantburgers to come to the aid of their country and create a Web-based, 24/7 streaming vid alternative to the networks. Rebut everything that comes out of their mouths, in real time. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-24 11:34:36 AM |
| #6 ...not that the big media won't try. Spin comes as naturally to this generation of journos as swimming to a fish. Thank G-d for the blogosphere. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-09-24 11:32:55 AM |
| #5 What ZF said. Especially since this time, few Americans will believe the spin that Walter Cronkite's successor tries to put on the Tet story. As Howard Fineman said on Imus, the "national press corps is crumbling" and their reputation for objectivity's shot. So this time around, no fifth media column will be able to paint victory as defeat. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-24 10:20:01 AM |
| #4 It would be good if the guerrillas mounted a Tet-style offensive, just like Sadr did twice in a row over Najaf. Saves our GI's the trouble of going to look for them. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-24 10:13:34 AM |
| #3 "The main headquarters of Tawhid wa Jihad is surrounded and trapped." If that headquarters makes a run for it, we'll mow it down. |
| Posted by: Bryan 2004-09-24 9:50:49 AM |
| #2 No, 1 marine = 10 dead turds. |
| Posted by: Rawsnacks 2004-09-24 9:32:59 AM |
| #1 Abu can plan all he wants but since one Marine trumps about 10 Hard Boyz his planning is not of much consequence. I found one problem with the article however: "* The main headquarters of Tawhid wa Jihad is surrounded and trapped in the city of Al-Fallujah." |
| Posted by: darkCircle 2004-09-24 3:19:24 AM |