Zarqawi captured on Syrian - Iraq border

[dumpster_baby]

http://www.albawaba.com/news/index.php3?sid=282053&lang=e&dir=news

Kuwaiti newspaper: Zarqawi captured on Syrian - Iraq border
30-07-2004, 14:48
Reports in Kuwait on Friday said a man assumed to be Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi has been captured near the Syrian border.

Zarqawi, whose Tawhid and Jihad group has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks in Iraq, was captured during a joint operation by US forces and Iraqi police, Al Siyasah newspaper, quoting informed Iraqi sources, said Friday.

The US and Iraqi investigators are trying to identify the captive and has sent his DNA sample for testing, the unconfirmed report indicated.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. So now the attacks will stop? US soldiers will stop dying? Iraqis will

stop dying?


I doubt it.

[NMDemDist2]

2. so if this pans out, do the Repubs dare trumpet it? I wouldn't think

so

I'm thinking it won't make much difference on the violence in Iraq and if bushco trumpets "Caught the leader of the foreign fighters" and the violence continues, it just adds fuel to our cries of "LIAR LIAR"

[soothsayer]

3. Hasn't this been called a hoax elsewhere on DU? n/t

[quaoar]

4. Yes, it has

On the other thread about this.

[Aidoneus]

11. rumour, probably false yes, but hoax?

the source is a Kuwaiti paper, probably false.. but what's the hoax? al-Bawaba is on the level, and quite decent, but it's just passing on the story that comes from elsewhere.

[Seabiscuit]

17. Simply put, your logic merely

results in: "al-Bawaba is a victim of a hoax."

[pinniped]

5. They can't capture him the next "boogeyman" isn't in place yet.

Is he?

And what about when he doesn't match the profile of the guy who "allegedly" killed those hostages?

Who are they gonna blame then?

And the voice is bound to be different too.

[AlCzervik]

6. and he still isnt on the fbi's most wanted list

guess he's not that important or that much of a badass.

www.fbi.gov

[OKNancy]

7. The first reports of this were 18 hours ago

Go to google news and type in Zarqawi captured. The first reports on this are 18 hours old.
If it were a true case it would be all over CNN and the networks by now.

[alfredo]

15. Maybe they don't want the networks to release this news

during the weekend.

[lottie244]

8. Is this the same one-legged guy who died twice and was captured 3 Xs?

They just can't keep a good man down, can they?

[Jack Rabbit]

9. This rumor is several hours old.

There is nothing about it on the BBC yet.

I wouldn't mind if something is done about Zarqawi. Here's sympotomatic of an infantile disorder in the Iraqi resistance.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

10. Wow. Only 1 day after the Democratic Convention

No, this doesn't seem fishy AT ALL.

[mom cat]

13. Nope! nothing fishy at all(not)

[UpInArms]

12. how many legs does the smelly corpse have?

n/t

[daleo]

14. Turns out that they just had his 3 year old amputated leg

It was close, though. It took a while to determine that the important bits of him weren't actually there.

[Pallas180]

16. Kuwaiti paper? disinformation from Rums penta? how come

it's not over every "what we laughingly call" news station?

[Karenina]

18. Be gonna go git me

a "high-value target"
let everbody see
how I's protecting dey safety...