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| Iraq |
| Iraqi army kills senior Al-Qaeda leader /chieftain/street captain in Baghdad |
| 2007-06-04 |
| senior leader/chieftain/street captain? And let's not forget that they called him governor, too. If the writer can't decide, it perforce remains a puzzle to me, although I suspect the title was actually Emir, and the difficulty is in choosing the proper translation. Iraqi soldiers have killed a senior Al-Qaeda leader in a clash inside one of Baghdad's historic Sunni quarters, military spokesman Brigadier General Qassim Atta said Monday. "He was from Al-Qaeda, they called him the 'Governor of Adhamiyah'," Atta told AFP. "He was killed during clashes with the 11th Division's first brigade this morning, and 11 of his aides were arrested." Atta said the alleged Al-Qaeda chieftain was an Iraqi citizen known as Abu Abdullah al-Adhab -- "Abu Abdullah with the crippled arm." Adhamiyah is a Sunni enclave in north Baghdad, a cluster of streets around an historic mosque surrounded by a US-built concrete security barriers and hostile Shiite districts roamed by militia fighters. Abdullah's death is the second reported killing of an Al-Qaeda street captain since last week, when nationalist insurgents in the Sunni suburb of Amiriyah violently turned against Al-Qaeda's Islamists. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 I hear ya, liberalhawk, and I hope the answer is, "They're Iraqi soldiers!" |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-06-04 17:07 |
| #5 An Iraqi army unit is acting effectively in a Sunni neighborhood, apparently. Is it a mainly Sunni Arab unit, or one of the many predominantly Kurdish or Shiite units? Either way its good news, though of rather different kinds. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2007-06-04 13:49 |
| #4 And, 11 of his aides were arrested. They will attend bone cracking clases and then rid themselves of information about remaining Qaeda activities and personel. Good work. |
| Posted by: Grusosh Borgia9229 2007-06-04 12:28 |
| #3 Lets see, we have one-legged Mullahs in A'stan and deformed arm Sheikhs in Iraq. You know, maybe all they want is some kind of ADA legislation and not a Caliphate. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-06-04 10:52 |
| #2 Yep, they'll be down to the junior high jihadis soon, just like the Taliwackers. I don't know what their recruitment numbers look like, but if we have the time we can just exterminate them the old fashioned way. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-06-04 10:48 |
| #1 It's really hard to get a fix on how high these buggers are in the chain of command. He could be anything from a local gang leader to a warlord. However, no matter what, having whacked 1,700 of these turd burglars since January has got to be putting some hurt on the bad guyz. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-06-04 10:33 |