U.S. military: Masri not dead.
By on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
U.S. military: Masri not dead.
U.S. military spokesperson Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, has not been killed. On Tuesday — the anniversary of Mission Accomplished — speculation spread that Masri had been killed. Instead, the military announced the death of a separate al-Qaeda in Iraq leader who helped orchestrate the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll. After checking extensively, U.S. officials said they have no indication that other high-profile targets have been killed in recent days.
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…And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:50 pmooops, didn’t mean to imply that we made a major victory in the War on Terror just in time to offset another major nail in the coffin of public opinion
it was just a coincidence
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:51 pmIraqi Blocs Opposed to Draft Oil Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/world/middleeast/03iraq.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
rejection by the Kurdish bloc alone, which holds 58 of 275 seats, would not doom the law. But Parliament operates by consensus, and members say it is almost certain that no law regarding oil will pass without the approval of the Kurds.
BUSH WILL NOT EVEN PASS THIS BENCHMARK IN TIME
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:54 pmThe Pentagon must stop masquerading putrid baloney down the throats of the press and most Americans are not gullible anymore.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:54 pmAs if it even matters…there’s 100 guys waiting to take his place.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:55 pmDuring a visit to Baghdad last month, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, that Mr. Bush would weigh Iraq’s commitment to meeting the goals when he decided at the end of the summer whether to extend the recent troop increase.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:55 pm…but remember, even though Al Qaeda-type jihadists are being attacked and killed even by Sunni militias, if we leave Iraq, the al Qaeda-type jihadists are going to take over the country.
I know this is true, because Dick Cheney told me.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:56 pmtrue larry but there are some people who just need killin’
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 pm“Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, has not been killed.”
Too bad.
Well, at least we got this murderous thug:
“Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri … was killed in a firefight Tuesday during a raid north of Baghdad, General Caldwell said, and photos and DNA tests confirmed his identify.”
Excellent.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 pmUS military = lies and propaganda.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:01 pmWhen we leave Iraq I am guessing that the lifespan of any remaining Al Qaeda members or any other foreign combatants will be less than 48 hours. We may not be able to tell the difference but the local sure can.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pmEven if Masri was killed he would be replaced with 2 minutes –
During a visit to Baghdad last month, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, that Mr. Bush would weigh Iraq’s commitment to meeting the goals when he decided at the end of the summer whether to extend the recent troop increase.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
LOOK ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF PAGE AND SEE
05/03/07 NYTimes: Iraqi Blocs Opposed to Draft Oil Bill
then read for above statement
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pmYou liberals wouldn’t want the leader of Al queda dead… he’s on your side.
TP has just assured you everything is okay in your fight against America.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 pmThe Military Industrial Complex Rules The United States Congress
Thursday 3rd of May 2007
by Jay Randal
Unending funding for the Iraq Fiasco War proves that US Congress is owned and controlled, by Military Industrial Complex CEOs, so Americans are screwed.
The Complex needs perpetual warfare to survive, like a vampire thirsts for blood, and like drug addict who needs a daily fix of Methadone to function in society.
Perpetual warfare means unending profits for an elite few, who profiteer on supplying military hardware and weapons of death, and who manipulate the Congress.
The super-funded bloated Pentagon scours the world loooking for weak countries to invade, and occupy, for the Complex to insatiate its never ending vulgar greed.
Iraq is now being victimized and pillaged for profits, but the Congressional membership remains blind to it, so American public is rendered helpless to stop it too.
Who in Congress are patriots and not Complex toadies?
(Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:05 pmExley, you don’t think for one second that Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri was magically killed in a gun fight and the information released intentionally on the day Alberto Gonzales was subpoenaed?
You need to wake up.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:05 pmSo, why is an Oil sharing agreement one of the benchmarks? It’s Iraqi oil, isn’t it? Why the heck should they share it with the invading army of America?
Exley? So, you don’t mind that the US military is lying to you? I suppose you just don’t care about the truth. You can’t handle it. So you’ll take any crumbs and cheer.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:07 pm“You liberals wouldn’t want the leader of Al queda dead… he’s on your side.
TP has just assured you everything is okay in your fight against America.
Comment by firehead”
somebody gets grumpy when they’ve been lied to.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:07 pmIn related news, a missile attack on the US Embassy in the heavily fortified and walled off “green zone” in Baghdad killed for U.S. mercenari…er…contractors.
All hail war! All hail death! All hail the “surge”.
By the way, Exley, with all of your cheering for the murder and rape of Iraq, what is that status of your enlistment application? Are you still choosing deferment by selecting the box marked “Pathetic Coward” or have you opted for the “Clinically Insane” option this time? Just wondering.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:08 pm#14…Tobey…There’s a truckload of laundered money on its way to the 58 Kurds. The neo-cons will not let the oil law fail.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:09 pmfirehead,
Why do you think we wouldn’t that guy dead?
Nice baseless dumb accusation.
You must have something of substance to say. Please tell me you have something better than calling your countrymen who disagree with you “anti-americn”.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:09 pmCorrection to #18:
It is supposed to read “four (4) US mercenari…er…contractors”.
And it not to be confused with the three (3) from the day before.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:11 pmIn my post 14 > looking not loooking > lol. Somehow an extra “o” got typed in there.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:19 pm“So, you don’t mind that the US military is lying to you?”
What did the military lie about?
Many of you folks seem confused. The U.S. military never reported that Abu Ayyub al-Masri was dead. That was a report put out their by an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman. But the U.S. military specifically and cautiously said they could not confirm that report:
“Iraqis Say Insurgent Leader Is Dead
U.S. Cautious About Report
BAGHDAD, May 1 — Iraqi government officials said Tuesday they believed the leader of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed north of Baghdad, but U.S. military officials said they could not confirm the reported death… U.S. military officials said they could not confirm the reports and noted that Masri and other al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders have been incorrectly reported killed in the past. American soldiers are waiting for evidence to verify the identity, a process that could take several days, said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad.”
As I said, many of you folks got confused and mistakenly believed that the U.S. military claimed that Masri was dead. As we see, that was not the case at all.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:21 pmTP has just assured you everything is okay in your fight against America.
Comment by firehead — May 3, 2007 @ 2:02 pm
How so?
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:26 pm“So, why is an Oil sharing agreement one of the benchmarks? It’s Iraqi oil, isn’t it? Why the heck should they share it with the invading army of America?”
david,
The term “Oil Sharing Agreement” refers to a law dividing up profits from Iraq’s petroleum exports among the Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites. It has nothing to do with “sharing” oil with the United States.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:31 pm#25………With the exception that the multi-national oil corporations (the so called American interests Booshie commonly refers to) are due to receive 70% of the revenues from said Iraqi oil.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:41 pm(To cover exploration and production costs mind you, and a nominal profit, of course………)
What a relief for the left. One of their friends can still kill Americans, boy that was close.
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:44 pmU.S. military: Masri not dead.
Round and Round the mulberry bush,
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 pmThe monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey stopped to tie his shoe.
Pop! goes the weasel.
Repulsivescum congressman Adam Putnam…
…a red head baby-faced Demon from Florida…
…seems to be the new Bushite water carrying war pimp…
…at 33 years old and in good health he’s running around (on c-span this a.m.)…
…pimping a war (”for our very way of life”) that HE won’t sign up to fight in…
I know because I called his office in Washington today:
(202) 225-1252
…and his receptionist or secretary or whomever answered my question about…
…his willingness to sign up and fight like this, “Not everyone who supports the war is going to sign up to fight”…
…give Putnam a ring and ask him why he’s willing to go on the stump and pimp the war…
…but NOT fight it?
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pmjoe – I’m afraid that you are on partly correct.
The new oil law’s “provisions are a radical departure from the norm for developing countries: under a system known as “production-sharing agreements”, or PSAs, oil majors such as BP and Shell in Britain, and Exxon and Chevron in the US, would be able to sign deals of up to 30 years to extract Iraq’s oil.”
“Critics fear that given Iraq’s weak bargaining position, it could get locked in now to deals on bad terms for decades to come.”
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132574.ece
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pmExcellent.
Comment by Exley
Hopefully, I can say that about your demise soon!
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:55 pmWhy is it that there is always this TIMELY amazing announcement of some key terrorist being killed or captured as a headline on page 1, but then several days later there may or may not be some small article at the bottom of page 16 reporting that it may not have been who they thought originally or that the person wasn’t actually dead or captured…hmmmm, wouldn’t be a bit of a diversion or a manipulation of the press in order to distract away from the bad news of the day?
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:59 pmOr do they need to simply ‘beef up’ reports of progress to prove the surge is working??
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:02 pmI simply don’t believe anything I read any more. In fact, I have quit reading the newspapers all together.
So does this mean we can put the Madame scandal back on page 1?
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:34 pmMargaret,
Thanks for the info.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:45 pmGol-l-l-ee Sarge – suprise, suprise.
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:51 pmDo you suppose any president, of any party will ever have the guts to do an outside audit of the pentagon and defense contractors and really clean house? The money saved in breaking the military-industrial complex would probably fund our social needs and still afford a middle class tax cut.
Think how lovely it would be for the old bumper sticker to be true: What would the world be like if schools were fully funded and the Air Force had to hold a bake sale to build a bomber?
May 3rd, 2007 at 5:56 pmAl Quaeda in Iraq.
I have never heard such a catch-all, ambiguous, made-up name for a loosly related scatttering of rag-tag insurgents in my life.
This propaganda is a joke. If they are really a cohesive force, the military would have had no problem eradicating them. The truth is that MOST of the violence in Iraq is Iraqi factional vilolence. Foreigners may be stirring it up, but the locals know who is one of them and who is not. THe fact is thast the US has no handle on what, how large, or where this entity is.
What a farce. AND I am also tired of the continual news stories about killing the “number two” guy in Al Quaeda or Same in Iraq. I wish that they would just stop fabricating and exagerating the truth.
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:05 pmIt is entertaining and, at the same time, disgusting to me, to read the comments in here and other posting venues from so many who know so little. So little, yet so opinionated. Wishful thinking, I suppose, or is it only Bush hatred? What a crock of misinformation so loudly trumpeted…
May 12th, 2007 at 10:44 pm