Zarqawi Could Be in Iraq's Kirkuk - Police Source(hot on his trail)

[leftchick]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7609671

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may be hiding out in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, local police sources said on Saturday, days after the interim government said it was hot on his trail.

"He came to Kirkuk from Mosul," a source in the Kirkuk police department said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "There's a possibility that he might be captured at any moment."

There was no immediate comment from U.S. or Iraqi officials on the report that Zarqawi had moved to Kirkuk.

Iraqi officials have claimed in the past to be close to capturing the elusive militant, who has been behind many of the deadliest attacks in Iraq over the past year, including the kidnapping and beheading of several foreign hostages.

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"We are following him," Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib told Pentagon reporters from Baghdad. "I think we missed him twice or three times, but hopefully next time we will be able to capture him."

... lol

[whosinpower]

1. These stories are just more propeganda

IMHO. If they really were hot on his trail....why announce to the world where they were looking???? Wouldn't that alert al-Zargawi and allow him to flee yet one more time?????

[leftchick]

2. yeah it is the same MO for UBL

any day now any day now....

[asjr]

4. The "Iraqi government" has learned well from it's masters.

[tanyev]

3. The legendary Al-Zarqawi.

I'm surprised they haven't been finding an Arabic "Z" symbol slashed into something at all the attacks he's supposedly responsible for.

[UL_Approved]

8. LOL, too funny

Except for the mass diversion thing...

[hector459]

5. Even if they catch him. What will it mean? there is someone waiting to

take his place. And after what we did in Iraq, I am sure there are many, many more willing to follow another person in Jihad.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. That probably means they've finished bombing Mosul

and now they need an new excuse to do the same to Kirkuk.

I guess BushCo wants to go for a Grand Slam. Fallujah, Mosul and Kirkuk destroyed in less than 2 years.

[dubyaD40web]

7. It's the new "Catch and Release" program.

Is this guy even alive?

[UL_Approved]

9. Does he even exist?

There is a quote from 1984 about the idea of the fictitious boogie man. This pretty much fits the bill.

[diamond14]

10. Al Capone: yes, said the police, we heard he's been in a garage on

Main Street.....hmmmmm...let's put out a story for the newspapers...tell them EVERYTHING we know....that'll help to catch him...and help to keep us "Hot on his trail"....



are the bushites just TOTALLY mad? seems this grinding evolving story keeps morphing for some kind of bushite SCARE TACTIC....Zarqawi is going to get US, HERE in Kansas City...he's coming with NUCLEAR BOMBS....to get us.....Zarqawi is SO EVIL..he's going to COME INTO YOUR CHILD's SCHOOL and cut off their heads !!!!!!!!! the only man who can save us from this EVIL is: saint g.w. bush*....so pray....and vote for bush* because he's sent by gawwwwdddd....

[FloridaPat]

11. Reminds me of the "Washington Slept Here" signs. This guy

was killed years ago, but now he's everywhere.

[booksenkatz]

12. Well, we'd better not take any chances

Let's randomly bomb suspected sites in Kirkuk -- no, let's just go ahead and fucking FLATTEN Kirkuk completely. Just in case he's there. Maybe. On the off-chance. And if innocents have to die or lose their homes, well, freedom is on the march. 'N stuff.

[Massachusetts]

13. OR.... he could be in Disney World

[leftchick]

14. now that's not a bad idea....

flatten disneyworld.... after all of the tourists have left of course!