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Iraq
Zarqawi in Iran???
2006-02-05
salt heavily until verified. it's not like any Iraqis have it in for Iran or anything ....
Iraqi police have arrested the fourth-ranking figure in al-Qaeda in Iraq, state television said, while officials are investigating whether the group's leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has fled to neighbouring Iran. The brief report on Iraqiya television identified the suspect as Mohammed Rabei, also known as Abu Dhar, and said he was No 4 in al-Qaeda. It gave no further details.

Meanwhile, a senior Iraqi security officer said the Iraqi government has been receiving information that al-Zarqawi may have moved to neighbouring Iran after hot pursuit by US and Iraqi forces in western Iraq. The officer said Iraq's intelligence services have received information that the Jordanian-born terrorist was spotted a few weeks ago in areas close to the Himreen Mountains, 120 km south of Kirkuk and near the border with Iran.

"We are dealing with this information carefully but intelligence services are working on the assumption that he has been planning to move to Iran after being besieged in the areas where he was operating inside Iraq," said the officer, who declined to be identified further because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
Posted by:lotp

#12  Iran knows we would take him if we found him there. Either they are baiting us into a war, using Zaw as bait, or they are dumber than anyone could imagine.
Posted by: 49 pan   2006-02-05 21:56  

#11  Among other things, his alliance with Ansar al-Islam is (or at least was) strong and that group crosses the Iraq-Iran border freely.
Posted by: lotp   2006-02-05 19:46  

#10  For the record, Zarq has been trapsing into and out of Iran since at least the early 2000s.

It's extremely hard to believe that the Moolahs & Co. didn't know of his travels, as he set up camp in SE Afganistan before the US invasion, and he set up camp in NE Iraq up to the camp being bombed in 2003.
Posted by: Captain America   2006-02-05 18:53  

#9  Killing shias and then hiding in Iran, nah doesnt wash

Do you think the mullahs really care how many shias are martyred? We're talking about a government that sent waves of kids into minefields.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-02-05 17:45  

#8   Do a Rantburg search on General Suleimani and you'll see why Zark would flee to Iran.
Posted by: Dan Darling   2006-02-05 17:35  

#7  There are parts of Iran that are remote and not under the MM's control. But I'm keeping my salt shaker handy.
Posted by: lotp   2006-02-05 16:37  

#6  There is a lot more Iran then there are Shias to police it. He might figure hiding out with some of the more radical anti-Mullah fanatics in the NW, just as a maybe.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-02-05 16:37  

#5  Killing shias and then hiding in Iran, nah doesnt wash
Posted by: Ding Dangalang   2006-02-05 16:32  

#4  If the U.S. could find out where in Iran he is hiding, we should do a predator style attack asap.
Posted by: bgrebel   2006-02-05 16:28  

#3  Shep you just made me laugh. Heh.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-02-05 16:18  

#2  reason number 1504 to bomb Iran! yay
Posted by: ShepUK   2006-02-05 16:11  

#1  We're now down to arresting #4 ranking AQI people now? Ran out of #2 & #3 guys, and nobody would accept promotion maybe?
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-02-05 15:27  

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