It appears that he was killed by Sunnis who didn't want Al Qaeda there.

48 hour rule + 24 in this case.

Wait for the DNA test.

JOB
OPENING,
R

The Iraquis gangs are batteling the Al-Q gangs?
SWEET!
Oh, yeah, let's hope this pig *is* indeed, dead.

I sure wish I knew where to find one of these Al Qaeda biggies. I could use $5 million.

With luck, the entire Islamo-Nazi Arab world will continue killing each other instead of decent people.

As long as their use of WMD's goesn't spill out into the real world they can do some housecleaning.

I heard a little about this on the radio. They are saying about the same thing Chip Designer said above. Apparently some of the militias that had been fighting against Coalition forces are now turning. They are figuring out that Al Qaeda is their true enemy. If this is so, it is indeed good news.

We can only hope that the camel puffing bastard is dead and burning in hell with the rest of the murderous bastards.

#1 Chip Designer

It appears that he was killed by Sunnis who didn't want Al Qaeda there.

Not so. It has now been confirmed that he was killed by an irate Shiite, who mistook him for his sister...the mustaches were very similar, as was the swishy gate.

Uh oh... we better advance the date of our surrendur signing...

/Dems

#4 Pete, thats been going on now for well over a year.

al-Q is taking a whupping in Iraq.

BADLY,
R

Buh-bye, dickhead.

Say Hello to Zarqawi

Will Harry Reid be a pallbearer?

Hey, Charles. I might want to change my vote on whether or not we are winning the war on terror (from 'No' to 'Yes')! :)

I heard this on the news this morning as well. Yeah, I'll believe it in 24hrs as well.

However, if it is true, I'm sure there are 3 or 4 new leaders waiting in the wings for such an occasion. Clean up and replacement in one swoop.

Too bad our revised IRaq strategy is a disaster and the war is lost.

This is the scene where the orcs attack the orcs...

Can we go home now?

We didn't do it.

Red on Red. Gotta love it.

However, Al-Qaeda claims their glorious leader is not dead, but merely resting.

Pelosi's probably blinking out a huge tear.

#11 Render

Yes, I recall an 'embedded' report of a major firefight that was NEAR (but not involving) one of our troop posts.

Funny you don't hear more of this in MSM.
Oh, wait, that bolluxes the "quagmire" meme.

Asshats.

Hang on, let me find my World's Smallest Violin...

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BECAUSE
WE
CAN,
R

Hi all I'm with those of you who want to use the 48 hour rule. We've heard this kind of stuff before.

Oooo - red on red.

I love it! :-D

I wonder if any wedding receptions were interrupted?

It's only one, but every little bit helps.

It aint that i dont trust the Islamics but HABEAS CORPUS! Until then, they are just liars. Every man jack of'em.

Question the timing, it's some kind of distraction from (The DC Madam/Immigration rallies/Pick a story), it didn't really happen, the CIA killed him, this story is a CIA plant, it's feel-good Faux News agit-prop, Iraqis like, yadda yadda

Did I miss any?

Isn't this like the third or fourth "AQ-in-Iraq leader" to get pasted this year? I understand that this is normal once a group is discovered, that when the main leader is killed (the Zarqmeister), usually his immediate successors are killed almost as fast as they come up, because they're not as good as their predecessor, among other reasons.

#2 taxfreekiller

This is what always worries me as well with these massive rewards. Hell, our government doesn't even give us those huge rewards for finding someone who is dangerous and wanted here.

How do they know where this money goes and how it will be used? When these rewards are given, are they sure these people are not taken out by their own, somehow, because they need the money?

I always thought such high rewards were a big risk.

#39 Pawn

At least fourth that I know of.

Zarwaqi, his first intended replacement, (captured crossing into Iraq from Iran and currently residing in Gitmo), one that was reported killed, and the Egyptian, who may or may not be dead as we type.

Not a lotta job security in that field...

HIGH SPEED
LOW DRAG,
R

Of course, the top story on the radio news today was gas prices.

gotta love red on red infighting

That "Head of al-Qaeda in Iraq" gig's becoming a tough opening to fill.

What does "red on red" refer to?

#19 Spiny Norman:

He's not dead, he's just resting after a long squawk, or pining for the fjiords. Just wait, he'll be VOOM in no time.

#35 Cicero05

The Head of Al Qaeda in Iraq job is even less attractive than the Head Coaching Job @ Alabama...except the pay @ Alabama is a whole lot better.

Ben Hur:

Red on Red means exchange of fire between elements of one side of a red versus blue conflict.

Usually, it has the connotation of a friendly-fire incident, but in this case we know the "reds" to be fighting amoungst themselves - which is good for us blue guys.

GO blue. Hell, GO red!

#36 Ben Hur;

"red on red" is the opposite of "blue on blue," the term used when good guys (blue forces) have a friendly fire incident...hence blue on blue.

"red on red" would be bad guys doing it to each other...:)

uradumone,

Pelosi's probably blinking out a huge tear.

LOL!

Thanks Bacon!

Thanks Curt!

may this POS rot in Hell for all eternity

The Democrats are furious that one their fighters was killed by a Bush proxy. Murtha calls for Bush's impeachment. "No where in the Constitution does it say that the enemy can be killed."

THe drive by's are pulling for Rosie to make a 'come back' more than pulling for the troop surge to work, or for us to win in Iraq.

#39 CanadianBacon

Thanks for clearing that up. Like Ben Hur, I wasn't sure of where the term came from.

/Regretfully having never served . . .

Another black day for the Koskidz.

Tough luck fellas, maybe next time it will be good news for your side.

/sarc

Look to the success of the Anbar Salvation Council if this is true.

If he's still breathing, at least he's on notice.

Dead man or Dead Man Walking either way.

Dangit! More bad news... First the 'better than expected' news on the economy (how is it that it's better than expected every single month, anyway?). The next thing you know, there won't be any big hurricanes, and we'll be really screwed!

/Democrat off

And another one bites the dust :)

Another one of Michael Moore's minute men, and one of Harry Reid's helpers... is dead.

good. rot in hell.

poor harry reid-he has sooo much invested in defeat

#32 Render:

Not a lotta job security in that field...

Whaddya mean? It's a lifetime post! ;)

Bill Roggio has a report that the Anbar Salvation Front may have been the folks who killed Al-Masri. The ASF is a coalition of tribes, some of whom used to be part of the insurgency. Not as AQ or ex-Baathists, but as pissed off Sunni arab tribes who lost some power or smuggling business. A few months ago they split from the insurgency and have supported the gov't. They have fought several battles with AQ, large & small. Their involvement is still unconfirmed, but if true, is very good news.

#45 pat, what makes that so funny is that it's completely plausible.

This more-fleshed-out Reuters article on the same topic (one of the same authors too) is priceless.

>He probably isn't dead.
>If he is dead, he wasn't important.
>Possibly, he doesn't even exist.
>If he is dead, did exist, and is important, his death is a bad thing for the Iraq government.

Dear Harry:

I guess winning the war didn't help him much, did it?

*spits*

Love and kisses,
Carolina

53 latacaster, Reid's invested so much in it, he bought the whole company and owns it outright now.

So, if he gets killed by fellow Iraqi's, does he still get his 72 virgins ?.

His caveman successor will take over in a matter of seconds and the Global War on Facing Reality will roll merrily along.

Any bad day for Reid or Pelosi is a great day for me, even if I'm working and fishing!

Top

This is a current cartoon up on Al Jazeera's arabic site. Seems like the Taliban are "magical" in evading the US

[Link: www.aljazeera.net...]

#23 Render

It should be clear the Islamic Army in Iraq and the council of Sunni scholars are by no means friends of the United States. Both groups view 'resistance against the occupier' as legitimate. And the Islamic Army in Iraq has some preconditions for negotiations that are unrealistic: a time line for U.S. withdrawal and direct negotiations with the U.S. Congress, not the Bush administration.

Nice job, Donks. Democrats in 2008: Favored by Al Qaeda.

Will Pelosi and Reid lead the U.S. mourners?

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#62
and fishing! should be not fishing.

Maybe he didn't fill out his TPS reports to spec. Or maybe someone put strictnyne in his guacamole.

Either way, this is good news if it's confirmed.

How come there isn't a letter 'u' after the letter 'q' in the word 'Iraqi'?

#29 Pawn of the Oppressor

Question the timing, it's some kind of distraction from (The DC Madam/Immigration rallies/Pick a story), it didn't really happen, the CIA killed him, this story is a CIA plant, it's feel-good Faux News agit-prop, Iraqis like, yadda yadda

Did I miss any?

I always like the one about how the guy's body has been in a White House refrigerator for months.

/ along with OBL and a dozen others whose deaths will "occur" when the timing is right

I rule! I post and a new thread appears! Check the timestamps, you'll see.

[Link: counterterrorismblog.org...]

We shall see...

AND
BREATHE,
R

I thought OBL got 'killed' right before the '04 elections. The democrats said it would happen, and they're always right, right?

PWNED!

sniff...blot my eyes...I'm just tearing up at the news.

oh wait, that's just my allergies.

63 Bill Amos 5/01/2007 10:00:04 am PDT

This is a current cartoon up on Al Jazeera's arabic site. Seems like the Taliban are "magical" in evading the US

Lovely, just lovely. Just the right people we need to include in our cable packages!

BUT IRAQ HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AL-QAEDA!

THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD ME SO!

There's a rumour going 'round Ottawa that Canadian Defence Minister Gordon O'Conner will soon be replaced by MGen.(Ret) Lewis MacKenzie. O'Conner is a well meaning fellow who gave his best, but he is one lousy politician. MacKenzie is media savy and just as well respected in the miltary. If true, this would be a great move by Harper.

AL MASRI SLEEPS WITH THE ARAFISHES!

ULULULULULULULLULULU!

JEWHAD!

I hope they got him but it is rather confusing because the BBC a year ago reported that this same man has been in jail for the last 7 years but no one can confirm anything. Argh.

bbc news link

Could be yet another loss for the Democrats, the Daily Kos, HuffPo, Michael Moore, etc.

Another of their "freedom fighters" may have met his well deserved fate.

I love the smell of red on red in the morning.

Bring out yer dead...Bring our yer dead

and they wonder why i keep such a large 'personal stash' of Cadbury eggs...

confirm this one, oh please -- it's time to pass out the candy (if they can do it, so can we)

Let's look to Harry Reid for a comment on how we're still losing the war even though the enemy is eating itself.

I just hope that we don't let the French do the autopsy. After the way they botched the Arafat one, I would hate to read how George Bush himself murdered this poor inocent man with his bare hands.

#55 Kenneth

Bill Roggio has a report that the Anbar Salvation Front may have been the folks who killed Al-Masri. The ASF is a coalition of tribes, some of whom used to be part of the insurgency. Not as AQ or ex-Baathists, but as pissed off Sunni arab tribes who lost some power or smuggling business. A few months ago they split from the insurgency and have supported the gov't. They have fought several battles with AQ, large & small. Their involvement is still unconfirmed, but if true, is very good news.

So, if these guys are former insurgents who may have come over to our side, it's not quite "red on red", but more like purple on red, eh?

Even better.

The United States ambassador to Iraq and the U.S. military said they could not confirm Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been killed.

So, how long before the Moonbats propose adding his name to a memorial?

Somebody please give me a reason for them to be taking up oxygen, energy, and real estate on my friggin' planet.

87 Spiny Norman

Yup. The Anbar Salvation Front has been the main target of AQ in Iraq's attacks with chlorine tank bombs. The top tribal sheik endorsed the gov't and since then hundreds of young men from Anbar have joined the Iraqi police & army. AQ is very angry at this and have been trying to kill the sheik.

From the leftist rag the Guardian come this interesting fact:

Al-Masri, an Egyptian, assumed the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq after the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a US air strike in June 2006. The US government in 2005 set a $50,000 reward for al-Masri's capture, later raising it to $5m.

Security experts say he became a terrorist in 1982 when he joined Ayman al-Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He probably entered Iraq in 2002, before al-Zarqawi, and may have helped establish the first al-Qaida cell in the Baghdad area.

Sooo,... let's see if I got that straight... the leftist paper The Guardian, which has always maintained that Bush lied about Saddam's ties to Al Qaeda, is now saying that Al-Masri entered Iraq in 2002, which is before the US invaded Iraq, and established an Al Qaeda cell near Baghdad? Wait till Dick Cheney hears about that!

Nancy Pelosi is wearing black today. Harry Reid laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown jihadi.

I guess this alleged "civil war" does have a positive underbelly.

And to the leftie idiobats out there: rejoicing over the death of a godless, soulless illegal immigrant murderer in Iraq is completely different than wishing that Dick Cheney's heart problems would kill him or that Karl Rove's cancer would be terminal...it's different unless you love jihad more than democracy.

#90: Unfortunately, you are the only one that reads the Guardian that WANTS to connect the dots you just connected so well. Nice work. Good point. To quote George Tenet, "I did say it was a slam dunk but later I amended my comments to say 'long three-pointer'."

# 87 Spiny Norman

Considering that everyone at HuffPo, etc., considers themselves to be "blue", and those of us who are rational to be "red", and also considering the Islamist obsession with another color of the spectrum, might a better term be

Green on Green?

(Somebody else want to supply the correct hue?)

cheers

eon

We can hope so.

#32 Render
Not a lotta job security in that field...

HIGH SPEED
LOW DRAG,

Well, quite a drag to those providign the power vacuum that promotes rapid advancement... ((-'pb
Also, I suspect that high turnover rate is partly internal instabilites - #1 guy gets greased, and 6 wannabees start competing, it's gonna get messy.

we can only hope!

It occurrs to me that with attrition at the top, and explosions at the bottom, and casualties in the middle, it might actually be possible to get rid of these rat bastards.

#90 Kenneth:

He probably entered Iraq in 2002, before al-Zarqawi, and may have helped establish the first al-Qaida cell in the Baghdad area.

That's unpossible! Everyone knows that Bush, and only Bush, creates terrorism! That saintly cherub Saddam would never have permitted an AQ cell in Baghdad!

Is it bad to be happy about this? I feel so blood-thirsty when I'm glad that these evil people are dead.

However, that said, and 24-hour rule in effect:

Whoo-Hoo! Bwa-haa-haaa! Bwahahahaha!

Re: #30 -- and the large rewards -- right on

The reward should be: Turn the SOB in dead or alive and WE will NOT blow your shithole off the face of the earth

#96 Occasional Reader

That's unpossible! Everyone knows that Bush, and only Bush, creates terrorism! That saintly cherub Saddam would never have permitted an AQ cell in Baghdad!

With all that kite flying and ice-cream cone eating to do, what Baghdadi would have the time to join Al Qaeda?

I hoe it is true. If it is I winder what the MSM will say. i bet "today x number of Us troops died, x number if civilians died, and one insurgent."

#93 eon:

Considering that everyone at HuffPo, etc., considers themselves to be "blue", and those of us who are rational to be "red", and also considering the Islamist obsession with another color of the spectrum, might a better term be Green on Green?

Standard colors used on military map overlays are blue for friendly units, red for enemy, white for non-combatants and yellow for units whose allegiance is uncertain.

Green is used for obstacles (wire, minefields, etc.), regardless of which side placed them, since they affect both sides.

Let's see Zarqawi was Jordanian, and al-Masri is/was Egyptian, and they were both operating in Iraq.

Perhaps there is a pattern here?

Nah.

#101 lobo91 5/01/2007 12:53:11 pm PDT

Standard colors used on military map overlays are blue for friendly units, red for enemy, white for non-combatants and yellow for units whose allegiance is uncertain.

Green is used for obstacles (wire, minefields, etc.), regardless of which side placed them, since they affect both sides.

So would the leftists be green or yellow?

#103 Maybe pink and yellow?

#104 Pink is a good idea. It is close enough to read to remind us that they are enemies, and then do them will yellow strips to remind us of their courage, or lack thereof.

Please do not lose sight of the fact that the red/blue labels as applied to political philosophies/people in the US is an artificially applied Bolshevik LIE from the G-D'd SOB media -- deliberately reversed from the historic application - y'all remember the RED CHINESE, red Russkies, Red menace etc etc -- the North Korean RED'S - dontcha huh huh ?

Likewise the yellow ribbon BS for returning soldiers -- yellow is the color of cowardice - always has been -- the song was about a guy coming home from PRISON - not war -- oh and don't give me the yellow ribbon outta the John Wayne calvary movie BS - pure Hollywood historical fantasy/revision/distortion BS

Charles,

Love the word "internecine" -- I had to look it up. My, how dreadful it is!

Had to look this one up too. I agree with Pythagoras, very dreadful but very appropriate for the scumbag.

I am eager to know more.

The MSM does NOT want to report on the fact that the local tribes turned on Al Queda some time ago, and that some the "16 Bodies Found In Iraq" headlines are Al Queda taken out by the tribes.

Anybody not killed by a uniformed military soldier, either US or Iraqi, is therefore viewed as an insurgent, so the MSM can cover this development as "Insurgents Kill 20 In Iraq Today".

No way this guy's own Al Queda followers killed him. It's going to turn out to be local Iraqis seeking vengeance for the many bombings Al Queda has been committing.

manofaiki

Ayman al-Zarqawi
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Next

Correction to #112

Oops, should have read Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

So

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Ayyub asl Masri
Next!

/sorted.

An understandably horrified BBC were quick to publish denials of this story on their teletext service yesterday. They now seem to have gone strangely silent on the subject.

So, it looks like it's true, then!