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False Alarm: Not Al-Masri

Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:34:21 am PST

I wrote yesterday that it wasn’t confirmed, and today the military announced that it was indeed a false alarm: US says Qaeda chief in Iraq not captured.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military denied on Friday that Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, who carries a US bounty of five million dollars, had been captured by security forces.

State television Al-Iraqiya reported on Thursday that a man calling himself as Muhajir was captured by Iraqi forces in the northern province of Nineveh.

US military spokeswoman Major Peggy Kageleiry said the detained individual was not Muhajir, whose real name according to the military is Abu Ayyub al-Masri. “They did not catch Abu Hamza al-Muhajir. Somebody with same name but not connected with him. It is not him,” Kageleiry told AFP.

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#1 BulgarWheat 5/09/08 11:35:13 am 2

Too bad! I was enjoying that.

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

#2 song_and_dance_man 5/09/08 11:36:00 am 0

Sooner or later he will meet his his final destiny.

#3 just another four-letter word 5/09/08 11:36:06 am 0

Obviously not reported by the MSM, since it deals in THE TRUTH.

...but it would've been nice to bag another high-up...

JAFLW

#4 coquimbojoe 5/09/08 11:36:07 am 0

I was happy about it too... Oh well, its just a matter of time.

#5 Sharmuta 5/09/08 11:36:18 am 0

Bummer.

#6 redc1c4 5/09/08 11:36:40 am 0

damn shame...... but i'll bet there were more than a few worried asshats on the other side fearing the worst.

#7 coquimbojoe 5/09/08 11:37:01 am 1

re: #6 redc1c4

damn shame...... but i'll bet there were more than a few worried asshats on the other side fearing the worst.

Like Jimmah?

#8 BulgarWheat 5/09/08 11:37:27 am 0

meanwhile, the code pink hags are casting spells on the Marine Office in Berkley.

Life goes on,....sort of...

#9 The Other Les 5/09/08 11:38:10 am 1

re: #2 song_and_dance_man

Sooner or later he will meet his his final destiny.

He's going to find out that Paradise is highly overrated.

#10 Ringo the Gringo 5/09/08 11:38:10 am 0

Any more bad news today Charles?

#11 Ben Hur 5/09/08 11:38:20 am 4

48-year-old killed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza by mortar fired from Gaza

Look at the G-d damned AP photo that accompanies the article.

AP photog, there for the LAUNCH.

#12 Shug 5/09/08 11:38:46 am 0

No doubt they are prohibited from "profiling" so they had to weed through the 30 nuns they picked up before they figured out they arrested the wrong guy

#13 smcg 5/09/08 11:39:24 am 1

Nineveh? what good ever came out of Nineveh?

#14 haakondahl 5/09/08 11:39:50 am 5

Here is the full J. S. Mill quote with which many of us are only familiar in an abbreviated form:


"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,—is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
--John Stuart Mill, The Contest in America

#15 Dianna 5/09/08 11:39:57 am 0

re: #2 song_and_dance_man

We all do, don't we?

#16 Creeping Eruption 5/09/08 11:40:21 am 0

re: #11 Ben Hur

48-year-old killed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza by mortar fired from Gaza

Look at the G-d damned AP photo that accompanies the article.

AP photog, there for the LAUNCH.

Of course Dhimmi Carters pals took credit. I spent time on Kfar Aza. Beautiful Kibbutz - notwithstanding its proximity to that stinking hell-hole called Gaza - and that was even before Israels "crimes against humanity.

#17 Ben Hur 5/09/08 11:40:51 am 0

And remember, WE ARE ALL hizbALLAH!

#18 U.S.S. Nixon 5/09/08 11:41:34 am 2

Damn I wish they could have caught this bastard. He will meet his demise soon enough though.

#19 The_Vig 5/09/08 11:42:39 am 0

There is nothing better than having a reward out for someone that is elusive and secretive. You don't have to pay the bounty. You can just say, "thats not him."

#20 MrSilverDragon 5/09/08 11:43:22 am 0

Just think... one day... one day.

#21 Shug 5/09/08 11:43:48 am 1

any news on Fat Adam Gadahn?

bumpy ayman?

Thought these guys were smoked last month

#22 Occasional Reader 5/09/08 11:44:17 am 0

Your time will come, al-Masri.

Just to give you a preview, here's a reprise of The Zarqawardly Lion performing "If I only had a brain".

#23 song_and_dance_man 5/09/08 11:44:56 am 0

re: #15 Dianna

We all do, don't we?

Yes, but I don't intend to occupy the same place as he in the hereafter.

#24 amphibian 5/09/08 11:45:40 am 1

Pity. We'll get you next time, asshole.

#25 winston06 5/09/08 11:45:49 am 0

bad luck... hopefully they'll find him dead next time

#26 Shug 5/09/08 11:46:12 am 3

5 bucks says he's living in Dearborn

#27 winston06 5/09/08 11:46:20 am 0

re: #13 smcg

a blood-thirsty cult ;-)

#28 winston06 5/09/08 11:46:39 am 0

re: #26 Shug

LMAO... very possible

#29 opnion 5/09/08 11:46:48 am 1

re: #21 Shug

any news on Fat Adam Gadahn?

bumpy ayman?

Thought these guys were smoked last month

Now that's the guy that I want captured.
I want him sent to Gitmo with Michael Moore & both fed nothing but "Smart Ones", while listening to Barry Manilow 24x7.

#30 Dianna 5/09/08 11:46:59 am 0

re: #8 BulgarWheat

Fortunately for them, magic doesn't work.

#31 MandyManners 5/09/08 11:47:13 am 0

re: #19 The_Vig

There is nothing better than having a reward out for someone that is elusive and secretive. You don't have to pay the bounty. You can just say, "thats not him."

HA!

#32 tfc3rid 5/09/08 11:47:17 am 3

Oh well... We'll get him someday, as long as Obama doesn't win...

#33 winston06 5/09/08 11:47:38 am 0

re: #29 opnion

I dont want him captured. I want him found DEAD. If found alive, he will be a poster boy for the Commies and Jihadis.

#34 Dianna 5/09/08 11:48:03 am 0

re: #13 smcg

A great line?

Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!

#35 maddogg 5/09/08 11:48:07 am 0

Damn!

#36 docremulac 5/09/08 11:48:52 am 1

Oh well.

Remember, it seems like just yesterday the liberals were joyfully taunting: Weeeere's Saddaaaam?"

They don't ask so much these days.

This new guy will be meeting his 72-virgin-male-cell-mates-named-Bubba in hell soon enough.

#37 opnion 5/09/08 11:48:55 am 0

re: #32 tfc3rid

Oh well... We'll get him someday, as long as Obama doesn't win...

If Obama wins, Secretary of State Louis Farrakhan will deliver a blanket amnesty.

#38 JammieWearingFool 5/09/08 11:49:10 am 4

I sensed most of the left was depressed yesterday. This news ought to cheer them up.

#39 song_and_dance_man 5/09/08 11:49:31 am 0

re: #29 opnion

Now that's the guy that I want captured.
I want him sent to Gitmo with Michael Moore & both fed nothing but "Smart Ones", while listening to Barry Manilow 24x7.

Rupert Holmes and Peter Allen too.

#40 Pyrocles 5/09/08 11:49:38 am 0

These guys are so damn slippery.

The MSM will continue to be in awe at how these primitive but pure and brave fighters daringly elude the most powerful military in the history of the world! /swoon.

#41 Dianna 5/09/08 11:49:46 am 0

Back to work.

Sigh.

#42 Ma Sands 5/09/08 11:49:52 am 0

re: #34 Dianna

Dianna.....did you know valentine81 checked in, over on the Hizballah thread?

#43 BulgarWheat 5/09/08 11:49:55 am 0

re: #30 Dianna

Unfortunately for us, they are bothering the Marines.

the annoying twits.

#44 opnion 5/09/08 11:50:46 am 0

re: #33 winston06

I dont want him captured. I want him found DEAD. If found alive, he will be a poster boy for the Commies and Jihadis.

I here ya & you make a powerful point.
Come on though, Barry Manilow 24x7! Think about it.

#45 Ben Hur 5/09/08 11:51:27 am 0
#46 BulgarWheat 5/09/08 11:52:12 am 0

re: #45 Ben Hur

Honestly, have you ever met a woman who could forget?

Yeah, me either...............

heh

#47 Shug 5/09/08 11:53:03 am 3

re: #46 BulgarWheat

Honestly, have you ever met a woman who could forget?

Hillary Clinton ( when under oath )

#48 OldLineTexan 5/09/08 11:53:13 am 0
The US military denied

This is usually followed by lies and deceit, according to the moonbat elite who are all smarter than me.

Wouldn't that mean that we have him, and are actually spiriting him off (quietly) somewhere horrible?

/Once it all lies and deceit, it's all lies and deceit!

#49 Dianna 5/09/08 11:53:15 am 0

re: #42 Ma Sands

No, but thank you! Is he ok? Has he decided to go or stay?

#50 Killgore Trout 5/09/08 11:53:17 am 0

re: #38 JammieWearingFool

I haven't been over to DKos to check yet.

#51 haakondahl 5/09/08 11:53:26 am 4

Our men and women in Iraq and around the world are rolling up al Qaeda. This enemy is rapidly being put out of business. There are more to be sure, and we will get them just as surely as we will get this cowardly al Masri thug.
If I may borrow some of TFK's magic:

tick, tick, tick...

#52 alegrias 5/09/08 11:53:56 am 0

re: #26 Shug

5 bucks says he's living in Dearborn

* * *
Ding Ding ding! Remember all those Hezbollans that the USA naively airlifted back to Dearborn during the first war in Lebanon recently?

#53 amphibian 5/09/08 11:54:06 am 0

re: #33 winston06

I dont want him captured. I want him found DEAD. If found alive, he will be a poster boy for the Commies and Jihadis.

No, this one, you want captured alive. Then you want the information extracted from him. Then, if there's anything left, you can dispose of it as you wish. He's left enough corpses behind him that turning him over to next of kin might almost be too cruel.

This is my opinion. If this post needs to be deleted, Charles, please don't hold it against me.

#54 OldLineTexan 5/09/08 11:54:19 am 0

re: #46 BulgarWheat

Honestly, have you ever met a woman who could forget?

Yeah, me either...............

heh

I can go home tonight and get in trouble for something I "did" twenty years ago.

In fact, the hard part is NOT getting in trouble for something I "did" twenty years ago.

#55 Dianna 5/09/08 11:54:20 am 0

re: #43 BulgarWheat

The proper response to people attempting ritual magic is to point and laugh. The marines are probably too polite to do so, but passers-by should.

#56 Ben Hur 5/09/08 11:54:39 am 0

re: #52 alegrias

* * *
Ding Ding ding! Remember all those Hezbollans that the USA naively airlifted back to Dearborn during the first war in Lebanon recently?

They are all hizbALLAH.

No really.

They held up signs.

#57 yma o hyd 5/09/08 11:54:57 am 0

re: #48 OldLineTexan

This is usually followed by lies and deceit, according to the moonbat elite who are all smarter than me.

Wouldn't that mean that we have him, and are actually spiriting him off (quietly) somewhere horrible?

/Once it all lies and deceit, it's all lies and deceit!

Heh.
Hadn't thought of that - ye're right! He's (hopefully!) being in a horrible place right now.
Deniability - thats the word we're loking for ...

#58 RTLM 5/09/08 11:55:32 am 1

re: #45 Ben Hur

Woman Who Can't Forget Amazes Doctors

How did he meet Mrs. RTLM?!

#59 alegrias 5/09/08 11:55:48 am 0

re: #29 opnion

Now that's the guy that I want captured.
I want him sent to Gitmo with Michael Moore & both fed nothing but "Smart Ones", while listening to Barry Manilow 24x7.

* * *
I don't want these guys enjoying themselves on Cuba's beaches and at the Copa, Copa Cabana, the hottest spot north of Havana, courtesy of the US tax payer.

#60 OldLineTexan 5/09/08 11:56:23 am 2

re: #55 Dianna

The proper response to people attempting ritual magic is to point and laugh. The marines are probably too polite to do so, but passers-by should.

But the FUNNY response would be to paint myself blue and utter counter-curses while looking COMPLETELY serious.

Or to use a flash bang and appear costumed as Asmodeus.

#61 Ma Sands 5/09/08 11:56:36 am 0

re: #49 Dianna

Go look at the end of the thread! And....it is a she! ):

#62 Ward Cleaver 5/09/08 11:57:41 am 0

re: #11 Ben Hur

48-year-old killed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza by mortar fired from Gaza

Look at the G-d damned AP photo that accompanies the article.

AP photog, there for the LAUNCH.

Did Jimmuh sign the mortar, or bless it?

#63 Eowyn2 5/09/08 11:58:09 am 0

re: #11 Ben Hur

48-year-old killed in Kibbutz Kfar Aza by mortar fired from Gaza

Look at the G-d damned AP photo that accompanies the article.

AP photog, there for the LAUNCH.

The caption on the picture does not match the story
A Palestinian terrorist fires a mortar shell at Israeli tank positions east of Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip

they actually used the terrorist word.

#64 BulgarWheat 5/09/08 11:58:42 am 0

re: #47 Shug

touche'

#65 coquimbojoe 5/09/08 11:59:03 am 0

re: #45 Ben Hur

Woman Who Can't Forget Amazes Doctors

What's so amazing about that? My wife never forgets anything I do and then I have to hear about it forever.....

#66 JammieWearingFool 5/09/08 11:59:11 am 0

re: #45 Ben Hur

Woman Who Can't Forget Amazes Doctors

She obviously has never forgotten to eat.

#67 The Other Les 5/09/08 11:59:30 am 3

re: #59 alegrias

* * *
I don't want these guys enjoying themselves on Cuba's beaches and at the Copa, Copa Cabana, the hottest spot north of Havana, courtesy of the US tax payer.

Play a Yoko Ono CD.

#68 lawhawk 5/09/08 11:59:51 am 1
#69 Eowyn2 5/09/08 12:00:07 pm 0

re: #54 OldLineTexan

I can go home tonight and get in trouble for something I "did" twenty years ago.

In fact, the hard part is NOT getting in trouble for something I "did" twenty years ago.

or something you "didn't do" twenty years ago?

#70 alegrias 5/09/08 12:00:09 pm 1

re: #61 Ma Sands

Go look at the end of the thread! And....it is a she! ):

* * *
We should have trained the Lebanese Protest Babes to pack heat when we had the opportunity.

However, Iraqi's Shiites should be ready to assist soon, why not, I can dream our billions in training has prepared Iraqis to clean up their neighborhood with help from US.

#71 coquimbojoe 5/09/08 12:00:14 pm 0

re: #66 JammieWearingFool

She obviously has never forgotten to eat.

Unkind and cynical posts from you today sir. I am expecting great things from you today.

#72 OldLineTexan 5/09/08 12:00:21 pm 1

re: #67 The Other Les

Play a Yoko Ono CD.

Sure, have 'em all bleeding from the ears. What if the Red Cross comes by?

#73 Ben Hur 5/09/08 12:00:24 pm 0
#74 BulgarWheat 5/09/08 12:00:40 pm 0

re: #55 Dianna

I'm a big advocate for breaking wind loudly and vigorously, then laughing at them.

#75 Dianna 5/09/08 12:01:04 pm 1

re: #61 Ma Sands

Ah! Thanks!

When I get my lunch break (ha!), I'll go look.

#76 Sharmuta 5/09/08 12:01:22 pm 0

re: #67 The Other Les

Play a Yoko Ono CD.

I think that violates the Geneva Convention. A more brutal form of torture you are unlikely to find.

#77 Eowyn2 5/09/08 12:01:43 pm 0

re: #29 opnion

Now that's the guy that I want captured.
I want him sent to Gitmo with Michael Moore & both fed nothing but "Smart Ones", while listening to Barry Manilow 24x7.


lean cuisine

#78 Ben Hur 5/09/08 12:02:01 pm 0

re: #63 Eowyn2

The caption on the picture does not match the story
A Palestinian terrorist fires a mortar shell at Israeli tank positions east of Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip

they actually used the terrorist word.

I saw that to.

Obviously someone thought it might look bad if their employees were with them during the act.

They threw us a bone.

#79 Eowyn2 5/09/08 12:02:06 pm 0

re: #72 OldLineTexan

Sure, have 'em all bleeding from the ears. What if the Red Cross comes by?


It'll blow a hole through the roof

#80 alegrias 5/09/08 12:02:12 pm 0

re: #67 The Other Les

Play a Yoko Ono CD.

* * *
Thanks but no thanks.
We might get more info if we played Gipsy Kings, Bamboleo and all that.

#81 Dianna 5/09/08 12:02:29 pm