Pentagon says key Zarqawi operative caught in Iraq (second-in-command...)

[sabra]

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12595464.htm

Pentagon says key Zarqawi operative caught in Iraq
13 Jul 2005 00:33:23 GMT

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - American forces have captured a key operative in the organization of Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the top U.S. general said on Tuesday.

Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the PBS program "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" that Monday's capture of Abu Abd Al-Aziz, whom he called Zarqawi's "main leader in Baghdad," was "going to hurt that operation of Zarqawi's pretty significantly."

Myers said Al-Aziz was picked up "on the battlefield," but provided no other details.

A defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, added, "When you look at the picture of the Zarqawi network of the different elements that are known to exist, he's the second-in-command of the Baghdad element and has the reputation of being the 'emir of Baghdad' for Zarqawi."

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[DemInDistress]

1. How many No.2 guys does that make

[Warren Stupidity]

17. there is one #2 for each 9-11 #20

And there is an infinite supply of 'top al qaida operatives'.

But never mind that. We are bringing the fight to them so that we don't have to fight them in the streets of our cities.

[merwin]

25. They usually only get the #3 man. They rarely get the #2.

[madeline_con]

32. "How many No.2 guys does that make"

Good question. The whole hing sounds like so much no. 2 to me.

Word in the Middle East is that there is no Zarqawi, he's a myth used to justify the unconscionable actions of the U.S. military.

[Eugene]

2. Another week, another top lieutenant.

Al Zarqawi must go through them like tissue papers! :eyes:

[brettdale]

3. LOL

hahahahaha we caught his second in command again!!!!!!!!!



:rofl:

[Webster Green]

4. LOL!

Please stop you're killing me!

I can't stop laughing...."second in command"......Bwahhahahahaha!

:rofl:

[earthside]

5. This is so funny!

Really, does ANYONE believe these guys anymore???

Everytime Bush has a 'crisis' ... they pick up al-Zarqawi's Number Two.

There must be about 5000 'Number Two's.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Gen. Meyers has turned himself into a joke.

[Roland99]

6. Wow! They're up to the #2 guy now.

Remember the last #2 guy they caught in Falluja during the siege?

[uppityperson]

7. Eventually they'll get down to the handiman or janitor

no insult meant to handimans or janitors

[BattyDem]

8. This is how the Pentagon counts to 10 ...

1 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10

:eyes:

[DawgHouse]

11. LOL!!!

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. In related news, Zarqawi's fourth in command refuses promotion

Feels being fourth in command is safer than being second in command, for Pentagon press statement purposes. :rofl:

[wookie294]

10. We gotta get that Zarqawi fella

Once we get that Zarqawi fella, the Iraqi people will be free.

:P

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[AlCzervik]

12. wow there are alot of 2nd in command Zarqawi people

[frictionlessO]

13. uh oh! they heard us making fun of all their number 3's.

Now there all like "Oh yeahhhh, how about a number 2!?! Lets see them laugh off a number 2!"...

Sure just wake me up when we can fuckin' leave the joint until then there are no massive gains, successes, or victories and every time you say that you embolden the enemy, ya fuckin political stooges.

[lockdown]

14. Same person who recently wrote about the London bombings?

Could be a common name for all I know, but a quick search gives this,

In an analysis of the bombings in London , published on the evening of July 7 in a Jihadi web site by one of the leading Saudi supporters of Al-Qaeda, the effect of the bombings was anticipated to be in the medium and long run, not the short one. 3 The analyst, is a man calling himself “Barbarosa,”—probably Abu Abd al-Aziz, a Saudi who commanded the brigades of the Arab Jihadi volunteers in Bosnia and returned to Saudi Arabia in the mid-1990s. In the article, “Barbarosa” reveals an important target of the global strategy of Al-Qaeda, namely the attempt to widen the gap between the United States and its European allies, with the aim of isolating the U.S. administration in the war against global terror. The London attacks were meant to bring the issue of the war in Iraq once again to the core of the public debate, even though the elections in the UK were over. The attacks were also designed to shake a situation in the European unity that has become increasingly fragile in recent months, in particular following the referendum on the European constitution in France , which rejected the planed charter. Finally, the attacks were timed to occur in the midst of the meeting of the leaders of the G-8 in the UK itself. Above all, the bombings came to remind the Arab Muslim world, not only the West, that global Jihad has a long-range strategy, where its leaders choose the targets and the timing, according to a clear strategy.

According to “Barbarosa,” the next chapter in this story will take place in Italy , and affect Prime Minister Berloscuni, and the forthcoming Italian election campaign.

http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/7_05/london.htm

Doesn't say he's in Iraq though, and Wikipedia reckons he's Indian not Saudi. Hey, maybe they traced him on the Net and bundled him over the SA border to join the pr campaign! :makinguslookbad: :evilgrin:

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Doesn't that make about the tenth one this month?

Notice they never show you any still or live video of these guys, even when they have them shackled. You would think they would be flashing their pics all over the place to demoralize the enemy.

[K-W]

16. Did they shoot Zarqawi in th leg while they were at it?

[markam]

18. It's the First National Bank of Iraq

Everybody is a Vice President

[Pithy Cherub]

19. Geez, will they please stop arresting the fry guy!

The cashiers would be so much better. :rofl:

[countmyvote4real]

20. The real #2 or a #2 "look-alike?" n/t

[Thor_MN]

21. Is this catch and release? A slot limit on al Zarqawi agents?

You can only have one Number 5 through Number 10 in posession and none above or equal to Number 4? Release them so that others can have the thrill of capturing a top al Zarqawi agent? An al Zarqawi Conservation Program?

[leesa]

22. Too funny! Who won the poll the other day? I guessed 'top aide'

[are_we_united_yet]

23. I think they mean the 2nd #2 guy

:shrug:

[Massacure]

24. Zarqawi will just replace him with another obedient sheep.

I don't see why the U.S. gets excited over one person.

[insane_cratic_gal]

26. How many 2nd in commands have

they caught now? 4? Always the bridesmaid never the bride.

[daleo]

27. The neat bit here, is there is no #3 man left to promote

As dozens of number 3's have been caught already.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

28. LOOK! LOOK AT THE SHINEY OBJECT OVER THERE...pay no attention to Rove.

How pathetic.

Now, I'm even more convinced that the Pentagon has these guys stashed all over and just drags them out when needed for political purposes.

I guess this is better than new LIHOP domestic attacks. But, once these piecemeal "captures" fail to have the desired distraction effect, I'm afraid these are next.

JB

[darkism]

29. Rove is a traitor what?

[Historic NY]

30. Wait a minute.....what this makes 3-4 second in commands caught...

everyone they get is a second-in-command.....no third, fourth, fifth...etc.

[pinniped]

31. Obviously the POS* has people that read DU.

They have found out that we know the gig is up with all the #3s they have been catching. From now on, all the bad al-Zarqawi affiliates will be known as #2.

Bull Shit-- Al-Zarqawi will be unaffected by this capture because he has an unlimited amount of #2 and #3 peeps.

--Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the PBS program "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" that Monday's capture of Abu Abd Al-Aziz, whom he called Zarqawi's "main leader in Baghdad," was "going to hurt that operation of Zarqawi's pretty significantly--

[WhiteTara]

33. did they run out of number 3s?

I hope the guy isn't a worker like the guys left in the van. I wonder if this is the story the wh is hoping will take the heat off KKKarl. I mean after all, they got the number 2 man! :sarcasm:

[leftofcool]

35. Well, damn!

These terra-ists sure have a lot of #2 men in command.

Left of Cool

[Robb]

36. If Zarqawi was #2 to OBL, this is just another way of saying #3.

...these guys are out of their freakin' minds. :eyes: