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| Iraq |
| 'We are so desperate for your help' |
| 2007-10-01 |
| The U.S. military is eliminating Al Qaida's chain of command in Iraq. Officials said several leading aides to Al Qaida network chief Abu Ayoub Al Masri have been killed by the U.S.-led coalition. They said two out of the four foreign aides of Al Masri remain alive. On Sept. 25, the U.S. military killed an Al Qaida chief deemed responsible for transporting foreign operatives to Iraq. The Al Qaida commander, identified as Abu Osama Al Tunisi, was killed in a U.S. air strike as he met his Shortly before he died, Al Tunisi wrote a letter that warned of a threat to Al Qaida operations in Karkh. The lettter, found by the U.S. military, sought guidance from Al Qaida leaders amid coalition operations that hampered Al Tunisi's network. "We are so desperate for your help," the letter read. Al Tunisi was said to have been a leading adviser to Al Masri, officials said. "The inner circle of leadership with Abu Ayoub Al Masri consists of foreigners, and Al Tunisi was in this top tier of leadership," Anderson said. This was the second leading aide of Al Masri killed in less than a month. On Aug. 31, another member of Al Masri's inner circle, Abou Yaakoub Al Masri, was killed near Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad. Anderson said the two remaining foreign leaders of Al Masri's inner circle remain at large. "The top two Iraqis, Abu Shahed and Abdallah Latif Al Jaburi, have also been captured or killed," Anderson said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 So Al-Q in I isn't going out with a bang, but a WHIMPER? |
| Posted by: WTF 2007-10-01 22:33 |
| #4 Abu Abdullah, said to be the newly retired commander of the southern part of Baghdad's Karkh region, and Sheik Hussein, an ex-Al Qaida facilitator. All fixed. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-01 20:30 |
| #3 Suicide bombings are down. Suicide bombers are largely non-Iraqi imports. Al Tunisi was chief importer of non-Iraqi 'operatives'. The traffic jam of unimported operatives ought to be getting kind of noticable about now. Anybody seen a couple hundred disoriented Saudis, Morrocans, Sudanese etc accumulating somewhere in Jordan or Syria lately? Might be worth checking. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-10-01 18:48 |
| #2 "We are so desperate for your help," the letter read. xxooxx |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-01 17:40 |
| #1 Oh, this is just breakin' my heart! Maybe thay can publish the letter on an Islamic website, along with a picture of the dead guy. Buncha crybabies. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-10-01 16:26 |