Iraqi police arrest leader of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad

[ECH1969]

Iraqi police said on Tuesday it has arrested the leader of the Jama Al-Tawhid Wal Jihad west of the the northern city of Kirkuk.

Police director of Kirkuk Brigadier Sarhid Qader said his forces carried out the arrest west of Kirkuk adding that questioning is underway.

He said that Katyusha missiles were fired in agriculture areas south of city causing only damage to buildings. Meanwhile, leakages were spotted in oil pipelines in the cities of Kirkuk and Mosul and emergency forces were sent to the area.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=840985
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Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad? Do they make these words up?

[LiberalVoice]

1. No they didnt. Oh, and they are lying.

The leader of Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad is Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. "Al-Qaeda" as it is known is only known as that outside of Iraq. I believe Zarqawi started spreading the name "al-qaeda" around to garner more volunteers from outside the country to come fight.

So in other words the leader of Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad(Al-Qaeda in Iraq) is still alive somewhere(and if he isn't at the very least WE didn't kill him.)

[ECH1969]

2. Zarqawi gave over command of his group to someone

named Baghdadi months ago. Bin Laden and Zarqawi aren't stupid enough to stay in Iraq or Afghanistan.

[LiberalVoice]

3. Since when did he give up command?

I havent heard anything about that. And whether or not Zarqawi is still in Iraq doesn't change the fact that "the leader" of Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad HAS NOT been killed by Iraqi forces.

[ECH1969]

4. Pulling a Tora Bora

ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI has suddenly disappeared. As briskly as he has emerged, the Jordanian high school dropout who became the undisputed leader of the Iraqi insurgency has descended into obscurity. Where is the man who singlehandedly created from scratch a formidable guerrilla army in occupied Iraq and whom Osama bin Laden called the Emir of Al Qaeda in Iraq?

A year after it assumed the name Al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers (Iraq), Zarqawi's group took a back seat. In an Internet message posted Jan. 15, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, the group's spokesman, announced the establishment of the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq, an alliance of six Salafi jihadi groups created to lead the ''fight to face the infidels and their followers of the converters," unify the mujahideen as per Sharia , and ''clear the mist off people's eyes."

A few days after the council was established, Al Qaeda in Iraq ceased to post communiques. Abu Maysarah temporarily signed the new council's communiques, but then he, too, stopped. The baffled jihadi community initially believed that Zarqawi headed the new council. But on Jan. 20, the council posted a communique crowning its emir: Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/03/13/the_coming_new_wave_of_jihad/