US military denies Iraq report of al-Qaida arrest »
Posted By JamesMarcus 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsThe U.S. military on Friday denied Iraqi government claims that the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was captured and said a man with a similar name had been arrested in the northern city of Mosul. Iraqi authorities had announced Thursday that police commandos captured Abu Ayyub al-Masri in a raid in the northern city of Mosul.
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walden31 year, 1 month ago
Really, even if we caught him what doe it matter wouldn't number two step up into his place anyways?
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libsRfunny1 year, 1 month ago
"Really, even if we caught him what doe it matter wouldn't number two step up into his place anyways?"
Well, wouldn't that be the same case if we captured Bin Laden? Hell, by bother at all? Let's just let them keep killing thousands of innocent people at a time. They'll just keep doing it, anyway.
Completely amazing.
Even if it is mistaken identity, at least Iraqi forces are doing more and more of the leg work all the time. More and more progress is being made.
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djrevelky1 year, 1 month ago
So I guess its just wrong to capture and/or kill terrorist leaders because someone will step up into their place? Good logic, let's just not fight at all and let them do whatever they want because fighting them is pointless because someone takes their place.
I'm certainly glad that FDR didn't think that when Hitler died that "someone would take his place."
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quackpot1 year, 1 month ago
Does anybody have a reliable figure - or even reliable ball park figure for just how many al-qaida-iraq members there are?
As far as I have been able to discern, the membership is actually quite small and has been relatively constant since after the invasion (it was zero before the invasion).
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jimdoze1 year, 1 month ago
"Does anybody have a reliable figure - or even reliable ball park figure for just how many al-qaida-iraq members there are?"
The U.S. Military has been taking a census... one or two at a time. It was determined to be best to kill them (or detain them indefinitely) as they are counted so that we don't count them twice.
Those are not organizations as we understand organizations. Most are one thing by day and Al Qaeda by night. The point is to keep killing them as quickly and as surgically as possible... and demonstrate that we will not be deterred by ours getting killed... so that eventually their inner cost-benefit calculus will be overwhelmed. Stabilizing Iraq is as much a question of will as it is of tactics.
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