U.S.: Report of injured al Qaeda leader is false.
By on Feb 16th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
U.S.: Report of injured al Qaeda leader is false.
“The U.S. military on Friday cast doubt on a report from the Iraqi government that al Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded in clashes with police. A senior U.S. official, who requested anonymity, told CNN that the U.S. military believes reports about the alleged incident Thursday are false.”
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U.S.: Report of injured al Qaeda leader is false
Too bad.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:49 pmBad information? From Iraq? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
February 16th, 2007 at 12:50 pmAl-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, is an Egyptian who took over the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq in June after the death of al-Zarqawi.
Al-Masri is now on the run, he said
Is thinkprogress making the case for our concerns that al Qaeda is focused on Iraq. al Qaeda, the organization that attacked the U.S. and destroyed the World Trade Center.
When we pull the troops out of Iraq, where will al Qaeda go?
February 16th, 2007 at 12:52 pmOh boy the Bush Regime cannot even make their lies stick for more than a day now.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:54 pmOccupy a foreign country indefinitely, whose people and leaders want us to leave, in order to eliminate a diffuse, decentralized terrorist network? Yeah, good luck with that.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:59 pmOf course the reports are false, AL MASRI is in an Egyptian prison, has been for the last 8 years, according to his lawyer, who as far as I know, has not been “debunked”
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5153364.stm
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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/archive/archive?ArchiveId=24294
February 16th, 2007 at 1:01 pmWhen we pull the troops out of Iraq, where will al Qaeda go?
Comment by paul
Your house. Better stock up on bottled water and cheetos. It could be a long seige.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:16 pmOh, yeah and Osama bin Laden is teaching at Harvard!
February 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pmI knew that the moment it was reported.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:24 pmAw, f*. I’m going to the mall and do some shopping. Need anything, hon?
February 16th, 2007 at 1:30 pmwow, even the “number two” al-qaeda guys turn out to be fake… the cia needs to research these things better… though they do know that 99% of us don’t ever hear the retractions to stories…
February 16th, 2007 at 1:35 pmre#3 paul
It slipped your mind that almost all the hijackers on 9-11 came from Saudi Arabia and none from Iraq, so here is your reminder.
Al Quada is in Saudi Arabia, so according to your “logic” that OBVIOUSLY should have been the first place to attack and not Iraq!
I guess the ruling Saudi monarchy being Bush “family” has something to do with Bush not wanting to attack and spread democracy there!
February 16th, 2007 at 2:04 pm‘BAck to Pakistan where their base and their leader is. ALl safe and sound, far far away from Iraq.”
“Your house. Better stock up on bottled water and cheetos. It could be a long seige.”
Nothing better than the words of progressives to highlight the absence of liberal awareness of al Qaeda and threats of fundamentalist Islamic ideology to the west. Did 9/11 even happen. Oh, I forgot, Bush planned 9/11. It’s like talking to a beauty contestant about economics.
If/when we are attacked again, liberals better pray a republican is in the white house. Otherwise, Americans (especially the ones not paying attention now) will understand the foley of democrats underestimating the threats posed by jihadists in a flatter (Friedman) world.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:16 pmPathetic Repukes are so un-American in their use of terrorism and 9/11 for political gain. How desperate an act to use an outside threat which we should all WORK TOGETHER to defeat in order to “win at all cost”.
F8ck all of you.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:23 pmpaul sez:
I’ve heard this song before. I think we’re all trired of dancing to it.
make sure you say 9/11 a few more times, paul. Nothing like exploiting a horrifying tragedy for political gain.
Interesting, how you came up with that all on your own, despite the fact that no one on this thread has even mentioned the 9/11 Truth movement. One might think you were fishing…
paul, if you want to learn more about what really happened on 9/11, there’s a wealth of information available to you, but you’re not really interested, are you?
Honestly, paul…it’s getting old. The ‘drums of fear’ speech as been done before, and it’s been done better. You’re getting tiresome.
‘foley of democrats’? What sort of sound effects do Democrats make, paul?
Ah, I think you mean ‘misunderestimating’. ^_^
February 16th, 2007 at 2:39 pmThe word is the Iraqi’s discovered a pile of feces and they mistook that for Al Qaeda # 2.
-GSD
February 16th, 2007 at 2:54 pm“Honestly, paul…it’s getting old. The ‘drums of fear’ speech as been done before, and it’s been done better. You’re getting tiresome.”
If your house is on fire and you tell your family and they respond by saying: “Don’t worry about it.” “It’s no big deal.” “It will burn itself out.” “You’re becoming tiresome.” Do you stop sounding the alarm or do you continue, because you love your family more than care about sounding ‘tiresome’.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:57 pmDang, the Admin thought they could look good and say they are making progress.
Paul
I’m much more afraid of getting hurt/dying in a car accident than anything else. Thats the most dangerous thing we do everyday is drive a car, and our chances of getting hurt in our vehicles are much bigger than getting hurt by terrorists. Put your fear where it would be useful boy.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:58 pmUPDATE from Iraqslogger.com:
“The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq WAS wounded and one of his top deputies KILLED today in a firefight with Iraqi police north of Baghdad, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, on Thursday.
CNN cites the Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman as reporting that Iraqi police encountered an insurgent group on the road between Falluja and Samarra and, in a firefight, wounded Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri and killed Abu Abdullah al-Majamiai.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:01 pmPaul the housefire argument makes no sense, and it’s not comparable to a real or imagined threat of terrorism. And you are the first person to make that argument about a housefire, how could it be tiresome to you then?
Paul, leaders have always used fear to motivate the people, its working on you. I live in a small town, and terrorists aint gonna come here. I’m more afraid of evangelicals trying to give me stuff and preach to me.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:03 pmWhat this post shows is this: Regardless of how or why they got there; al Qaeda is in Iraq, focused on defeating the coalition effort. When we leave, where will they go? Jihadists that demand: “Death to the infidels”; Jihadists that carried out dozens of terror attacks pre-9/11, the 9/11 attacks, the London subway bombings, the Madrid train bombings, the Bali bombing, etc., with more time on there hands, where will they concentrate their efforts?
There are consequences for going into Iraq. Are there no consequences for leaving?
February 16th, 2007 at 3:04 pmpaul sez:
You now are officially tiresome, paul. Congrats.
(BTW, in the future, don’t try to equate your pernicious actions with someone’s ‘love for their family’. You sound even more ridiculously hypocritical than usual.)
February 16th, 2007 at 3:05 pmPaul you have pissed-soaked pants.
Most Republicans do.
They love to be afraid of stuff: brown people, taxes, liberals, Democrats, terrorism, non-Christians, unborn babies, flags on fire.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:06 pmPaul,
You are saying Al Queda in Iraq is existing, functional, and performing terrorist activities. How come our presence there doesn’t stop it? Is this working?
February 16th, 2007 at 3:07 pmWas there an “Al Queda in Iraq” before we went in?
February 16th, 2007 at 3:10 pmI’m annoyed by evangelicals that preach to me. I’m concerned about Islamic fundamentalists that include an end to western civilization in their mission statement. Maybe your spending too much time with evangelicals.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:11 pmPaul you have pissed-soaked pants.
Most Republicans do.
They love to be afraid of stuff: brown people, taxes, liberals, Democrats, terrorism, non-Christians, unborn babies, flags on fire.
Comment by ForTruth
And lets not forget the gay people. Be very afraid. And most of all, be very afraid of a vengeful God.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:11 pmSpudge_Boy.
“How can you look yourself in the mirror being so scared of the world around you. Chicken sh!t.”
After donning a flak vest (and sitting on another) to fly combat missions into Sarajevo under President Bill Clinton, I don’t spend much time questioning myself in front of a mirror.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:16 pmPaul why don’t you shed some light on the subject for me and include a link to this mission statement you speak of. I would like to read it.
Paul in our “Mission Statement” aka PNAC. It calls for the end of a civilisation of over a billion people. Its just not as straightforward in its verbage, but thats what is states.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:17 pmOh, I forgot, Bush planned 9/11. It’s like talking to a beauty contestant about economics. Comment by paul — February 16, 2007 @ 2:16 pm
What a sexist and stupid remark. Because a woman is pretty and in a beauty contest, she can’t be smart enough to discuss economics?
Based on your comment, any beauty contest winner has a better shot at discussing economics than you do, no matter how uneducated she is! What a silly, and sexist remark.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:17 pmForTruth. I love brown people, gay people, liberals, Democrats, non-Christians (I am one), unborn babies, and flags (burning or not). You’re right about the taxes.
You can also add one more to your list of fears: liberal complacency.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:19 pmI’m annoyed by evangelicals that preach to me. Comment by paul — February 16, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
Yet you elect politicians that live and breathe their values. Talk about being too ignorant to vote for your own self interests.
I’m concerned about Islamic fundamentalists that include an end to western civilization in their mission statement. Comment by paul — February 16, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
Yet, here your party is doing more to destroy western civilization (that’s reason, logic, and science – as well as enlightenment). I hate to inform you, but Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all middle-eastern thought, not western civilization. In fact, Christianity did a great job of destroying Rome and Western Civilization for centuries.
Maybe your spending too much time with evangelicals.
Comment by paul — February 16, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
There’s no maybe about it, you’re definitely spending too much time with evangelicals. You actually believe your radical Christian/Jewish values are different from those of Islam – BWAHAHAHA, now that’s funny!
February 16th, 2007 at 3:20 pmAfter donning a flak vest (and sitting on another) to fly combat missions into Sarajevo under President Bill Clinton, I don’t spend much time questioning myself in front of a mirror. Comment by paul — February 16, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
Then you should have no problems signing up for another tour to fight for your president. Right?
February 16th, 2007 at 3:21 pmPaul,
Shoe me up some radical Islamic mission statements here.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:24 pmIf you wanted to know about economics would you ask a beauty contestant, a bus driver, a pro baseball player, a violinist, or an economist? It is not a sexist comment. It is a reference to asking questions of people that don’t have the background to answer; much like in a beauty contest.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:24 pmThere’s always been terrorism, what caused them to focus their attention on the US? Paul?
February 16th, 2007 at 3:24 pmForTruth.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/16/do1609.xml
Start with that.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:27 pmThere’s always been terrorism, what caused them to focus their attention on the US? Paul?
In the U.S., women are respected. Gay people have rights. You can believe in any religion you want. You have the freedom of speech, right to vote, etc…Everything terrorists oppose and the reason they focus on the West and the U.S. in particular. If you want to side with terrorists, that’s your call. I’m with freedom.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:32 pmThen you should have no problems signing up for another tour to fight for your president. Right?
I have proven I’m willing to do it once. I would do it again. I would sacrifice for the country I love. Et tu?
February 16th, 2007 at 3:34 pmAlso Paul,
Who gave the radical Islamic Fundamantalists their power and ability? Before we needed to consume the majority of the world’s fossil fuel supplies, they lived in tents in the sand, and could only throw rocks. Now they have lots of money and power. They didn’t sell the oil to themselves. We knew this was a problem decades ago, and the greedy oil companies did not want to get off the oil. We have slowly built these people up to where they are today. But the mentality was and is, that we can just kick people’s asses if they don’t like what we do. Well it came home to roost on 9/11. We are not untouchable. So in response, we just ratchet up the same attitude and policies that got us here to beging with. Yeah real brilliant. Now we want to blame the Muslim world for hating us after we gave them the red white and blue dick ever since the creation of Isreal.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:35 pmBut the shorsighted narcissistic attitude of most of us prevents that vision from being seen. We think we are the greates thing since sliced bread, and everyone should just put up or shut up. Now Paul is afraid of those people he ignored and overlooked for the past 60 years. Gee.
Et tu?
Nope, against it since 2000 (meaning the entire administration of dimestore cowboys)
February 16th, 2007 at 3:41 pmValiantVenusGrewFromUranus.
If you think there are not differences between Christianity and Islam; you should google: Crusades
I don’t subscribe to any monotheism. We could agree on the intolerance and failings of Christianity, but I believe you are too myopic to contemplate the failings of Islam.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:43 pmThanks Paul ,
An Op-Ed by an Iranian dissedent.
Got anything less weak? Pretty weak stuff.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:52 pmI know Muslims hate us and want to kill us Paul. Probably not all Muslims of course. But I would be letting them win if I made my decisions based in that fear. That is the essense of terrorism, not the act itself, but the fear it instills. They have beaten you.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:54 pmWonder WHY the U.S. Gov. source wanted to remain anonymous? Could it be because he would be fired, dismissed, demoted or retaliated against for telling AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH(tm)? Why must the JACKASSES running the show in Iraq HAVE TO LIE ABOUT THINGS LIKE THIS FOR? The Propaganda Police are working overtime on this one in a FUTILE EFFORT to try and show the American People that “We are Winning!”–NOT!!!!! The American People for the most part are not that easily fooled or bamboozled! The sooner the repugnant-repubs like Exley above realize that, the better off America WILL BE!!!!!
February 16th, 2007 at 4:06 pmExley isn’t even half as repugnant as most of these dimwits who come here to argue the PNAC agenda.
February 16th, 2007 at 4:12 pmThanks Spudge,
I think it boiles down to the fear, and letting that fear guide decision-making. Thats the goal of all terrorism. I won’t let that goal be met.
February 16th, 2007 at 4:14 pmThen Paul sez to himself.
“Then why does the entire Administration and a large block of Americans buy into this fear?”
Because they are wrong Paul, yes an entire Administration can be wrong along with millions of people.
The Administration is only afraid of folks like you seeing through the bullshit, and waking up.
February 16th, 2007 at 4:20 pmOf course you liberals are happy to see the Al Queda leader is still alive. His death would be a victory for Bush and the War on Terror. You would see no news about his death if he died, just like with Zarkawi, and if anything, it would find some way the military or Bush screwed up. But when he survives, you see self congradulatory posts like this one, full of comments by happy liberals who care more about Bush failing than seeing a man who intends to kill as many US troops as possible meet his fate.
You people are disgusting.
February 16th, 2007 at 4:24 pmfirehead. You’re right on the money, but you are not going to get any traction here. The left is invested in defeat. Progressives won’t rest until Bush is disgraced; regardless of the justification and regardless of the consequences.
February 16th, 2007 at 4:37 pmYou right wing nutjobs are defeated already.
And Bush is already a disgrace. How many “#2 Al Queda” are there?
February 16th, 2007 at 4:47 pmWe suspected as much. The “liberal” media certainly didn’t want voters to be focusing on the speeches that took place in the House this week. Much better if the voters are focused on fear and lies.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:02 pmthis is the 14th time they killed The Top Al Quieda in Iraq in 3 years thats good going …….. In two months expect the same story
February 16th, 2007 at 5:10 pmYou people are the ones who are scared of every Muslim on the planet, but then try to pretend that there are only 6 of them. Jeebus, wake the fu*k up.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — February 16, 2007 @ 4:49 pm
I believe 2 or 3 well placed full out nuclear bombs (the big fat fu*kers), would do the job nicely and “level the playing field” betrween muslims and Christians. Take out say, 30 million people per bomb initaially and outright. With another 20-30 million dying off within 6 months of exposure and radiation.
That will make those heathens think twice about EVER fu*king with us again. Plus we could virtually name our price for the worlds oil supplies. If and when I ever get to be President, believe you me, this will be my FIRST priority.
The “thinning of the herd” of the middle eastern muslims. I will hold them down and let Israel join the fight and bitchslap them while they are down and cant get up. Once they are down and cant get up, this is where I will keep them. With no hope. No chance, no glimmer of a better life.
Its what they deserve. They (muslims) are just too hard headed to see it as the fact that it is. Quite simply, Christians and Jews are the premier “accepted” religions in the world, and we will work together forever if we have to, to insure this is ALWAYS the way it remains.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:41 pmYeah, because you aren’t anywhere near as crazy as them, right?
February 16th, 2007 at 6:40 pmWhy would CAP post this on their website? It’s like they are celebrating the fact that an Al Qaeda leader is not dead. What kind of statement are they trying to make by posting this? I could understand posting it if the story had said that American officials were claiming he was wounded when he was really not, but it seems to me that the Army never claimed he was wounded. The only reason they could possibly have posted it, is to try to quickly cast doubt on any chance of good news coming out of Iraq.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:51 pm#65
February 16th, 2007 at 7:03 pmIt seems like the US is casting doubt on the fact that Masri was injured. At least that is what I got from the article. Perhaps I’m not getting the full picture. Please explain what this has to do with Bush lying?
I’m starting to question if actuall people visit this site. I think their are computers programmed to say blah blah blah blah Bush Lied blah blah. Three People died because of snowstorms because Bush Lied. 5000 domestic pets die a year from heartworm related illness becaus Bush Lied.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:11 pmConservatives are 45% more likely to misuse the word their because Bush lied.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:13 pmMy blackened chicken pasta I had for dinner didn’t taste quite right because Bush lied.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:25 pmThe Bush administration leaked information about a “top al Qaida leader†getting captured or killed to the Iraqi Government? Yes that’s it, Bush secretly convinced the Iraqi government that the Iraqi police captured or killed a top al Qaeda leader. That’s some excellent insight Spudge. Still, one has to wonder why the Iraqi police just didn’t tell the Iraqi government that they captured or killed al Masri. Brilliant!
February 16th, 2007 at 9:34 pmThen again, maybe al Masri wasn’t involved in a clash with Iraqi police but rather with the NYPD. Then the Bush administration leaked that info to the Iraqi government who then leaked it to the US press. Smart thinkin’ Spudgey Boy.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:45 pmFOXNews had this report on one of their *LOUD ALARM* News Alerts. Amusing.
February 17th, 2007 at 1:00 am