Great news out of Iraq recently. The aide of Al Qaeda in Iraq boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, was caught in Iraq by Iraqi forces. This speaks well for the progress they’ve made there in training and developing the skills needed to defend their own country.
By the way, for the liberals who are confused by this, Zarqawi is a member of that same al Qaeda that terrorist Osama bin Laden leads. “Terrorists” are “bad people”.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq announced the capture of a senior aide to leading militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Monday, hours after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
The seizure of Abu Omar al-Kurdi, accused of masterminding some of the worst car bombings in Iraq, appeared to be a major breakthrough for the authorities ahead of next Sunday’s historic election, which Zarqawi and his followers have vowed to disrupt.
Abu Omar, also known as Sami Mohammed al-Jafi, was seized in a raid in Baghdad on Jan. 15, the government said in a statement released six days before the election.
He is blamed for over 30 bombings including the attack on the U.N. headquarters in August 2003 which killed special envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 20 others, and a blast in Najaf the same month which killed 80, including a top Shi’ite cleric.
“Kurdi has confessed to some 75 percent of the car bombs that were used for attacks in Baghdad since March 2003 and to making the explosives used in the attack on the Jordanian embassy in Aug. 2003,” said government spokesman Thair al-Naqib.
The government said Abu Omar had received instructions from Zarqawi to carry out a series of bomb attacks on election day—precisely the sort of assault the government, opposition figures, voters and international observers fear. […]
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