Iraqi Al-Qaeda leader interrogated for two months: US military(more on #2)

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A senior Al-Qaeda operative captured in Iraq was interrogated for over two months, yielding information that led to the arrest of 11 other insurgent leaders, the US military said.

The announcement came as US President George W. Bush confirmed the long suspected existence of secret CIA-run prisons and defended the use of intense secret interrogations to foil terror attacks.

"The key 11 mid-level Iraqi leaders that we either killed or captured were directly as a result of what Abu Hammam provided in the interrogation debriefings that were conducted over about a two-month period," said coalition spokesman Major General William Caldwell.

Iraq's National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie originally announced the capture of Hamed Jumaa al-Saedi, whose nom de guerre is Abu Hammam, on Sunday, indicating that it happened only a few days earlier.

"What he really meant is that he had just been cleared to announce that he was in captivity," said Caldwell.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060907/wl_mideast_afp/iraqattacksqaedaus_060907082826

Something really stinks about the timing of this story

Denial from Al Qaeda:
Al-Qaeda in Iraq denies deputy's arrest

~snip~
Rubaie had trumpeted the arrest of Saedi yesterday, saying he was the "number two leader after Abu Ayyub al-Masri" of the Al-Qaeda Islamist network in Iraq.

Saedi was "captured a few days ago along with a group of his loyalists after an operation was carried out by Iraqi security forces supported by US forces", Rubaie told reporters in Baghdad.
http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=412231

Original story clarification about the #2:

al-Qaida in Iraq No. 2 Arrested in June (not Sunday)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2496376&mesg_id=2496376

Original Story:

* * * Official: No. 2 al-Qaida in Iraq leader arrested * * *
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2491542

[dipsydoodle]

1. Must confess it seemed decidedly odd

that an apparent capture only a few days back had yielded an alleged eleven names so quickly. Seemed even stranger when all eleven got rounded up quickly too. Just another Grimm's Fairy Tale I guess.

Nice little expression in the outlookindia link - " the Crusaders and their valets " :)

[maddezmom]

2. the timing is too convenient and the continued backtracks by the US military

I can't seem to find a statement from the Iraqi gov't about this mix up.