US Commander: Top Al-Qaida In Iraq Leader Killed

Associated Press:

U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday.

Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said the death of the suspected terrorist in a U.S. airstrike Tuesday south of Baghdad, and recent similar operations against al-Qaida, have left the organization in Iraq fractured.

Read the whole story: Associated Press

Comments

[mirza]

10:40 PM on 09/28/2007

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Llego/momento/deshacerse/Sadam/elpepuint/20070926elpepinac_1/Tes

[loki]

10:34 PM on 09/28/2007

What?? They Killed Rove??

[nippersdad]

10:33 PM on 09/28/2007

Well, I guess we'll know we've won when our allied forces say that they have finally managed to kill off Stalin or Attila the Hun.

[RogerHWerner]

09:11 PM on 09/28/2007

This is great news but not for reasons the military implies. Only the uninformed continue to believe foreign terrorists are the main problem in Iraq. If al Qaeda in Mesopotamia has become so fractured, it rather begs the question who has been carrying out numerous attacks. The more isolated al Qaeda in Mesopotamia becomes the more transparent it should be that they aren't a factor in this fight. The war is primarily sectarian and economic and we could rid the country completely of al Qaeda and violence would continue.

[waiguoren]

08:50 PM on 09/28/2007

Did y'all se Al Quida's Organizaional Chart?

1

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

08:56 PM on 09/28/2007

And "1" is an honored guest of Gen. Musharraf.

[amanda85]

10:11 PM on 09/28/2007

Nope, "1" **IS** Gen. Musharraf...
Mohammed Sheikh Saeed, the guy the US government fingered as the infamous "Al Qaeda banker", turned out to be an ISI agent (Pakistani Secret Service.) Then mention of his name magically disappeared from every MSM website.

[getoffmedz]

08:11 PM on 09/28/2007

Why is MSM not carrying this story from Iraq?

"Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, has flatly rejected a US senate resolution calling for the creation of separate Sunni, Shia and Kurdish federal regions.

Al-Maliki said: "They should stand by Iraq to solidify its unity and its sovereignty. They shouldn't be proposing its division. That could be a disaster not just for Iraq but for the region."

Al-Maliki also called on the Iraqi parliament to meet and respond formally to the non-binding resolution, which was passed on Wednesday. (It did? Not on MSM!)

Many Sunnis and Shias oppose greater federalism which they see as a step towards dividing Iraq."

The controlled media in our country is appalling which is precisely why Americans KNOW NOTHING of the war that kills and maims our loyal and trusting troops.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

08:15 PM on 09/28/2007

So say's Bush's ex-puppet, now Iranian bud who's lining up the entirety for Iranian Shiite influence. What about the Iraqis at large.

[LIR]

09:03 PM on 09/28/2007

This is Biden's plan, and some liberals seem to like it...heard Randi Rhodes liking it...I think it is a damn stupid idea...

Why do we get the same headline when things are in a bad patch (when are they not?) in Iraq?

[ajax2]

07:57 PM on 09/28/2007

Actually it was the third highest al-Qaeda in Iraq Tunisian. The chain of command diagram for Tunisian, al Qaeda in Iraq linked terrorists clearly show he was 3rd in command of linked Tunisians.

[Meldrethx1138]

07:44 PM on 09/28/2007

How many times can they kill this asshole?

[MA]

08:22 PM on 09/28/2007

This is like killing Kenney off in Southpark!

[robodweeb]

07:42 PM on 09/28/2007

Great! Now they'll never be able to attack us in the US again!

Right?

[Lonw]

07:25 PM on 09/28/2007

This is just more approved bullshit from the propaganda pimp, Cheney.

[LIR]

09:03 PM on 09/28/2007

Make that just plain old PIMP.

[zull2]

07:21 PM on 09/28/2007

When did "Top" stop meaning the top? I've clicked on dozens of articles now where they say that the US forces killed the "Top Al-Qaeda operative in Iraq", only to find it's not "the" top guy, but one of his cronies.

Yeah, there's a hierarchy in this terrorist organization, but the bottom line is that wording subject lines this way is just a cheap journalistic trick. It's also subliminal political advertising for the war effort, because a lot of people see the title inadvertently without reading the article, and one's brain subconsciously equates that with "The leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed".

I know it's not "sexy" to just say "Key Al-Qaeda member" killed instead of "Top Al-Qaeda member" killed, but come on. When you throw journalistic integrity out the window, you effectively do nothing more than reduce your news agency to entertainment rather than news. The two concepts should be kept separate just like fantasy and reality shouldn't be confused.

[KBAR]

06:50 PM on 09/28/2007

Well, the DimLib's are, atleast, consistant. They belittle the Al Qaeda leadership almost as much as they do our OWN!

[ResidentChimp]

06:50 PM on 09/28/2007

It must be a sad day for the surrender monkeys. Another setback in their surge to overthrow the Bush Administration. Now their strategy is to denigrate all of Americas' military progress and try to encourage the terrorists to hang on just a little while longer. A good example is Captain "Osama" EdawardsGraham, Paul Revere and Hume Skeptic.

[getoffmedz]

08:17 PM on 09/28/2007

ResidentChimp - Actually, blatant ignorance to the events of this war embolden those who want the U.S. out of Iraq.

WIN WHAT? Tell us precisely. WIN WHAT?

crickets

[BUSHsurvivor]

06:26 PM on 09/28/2007

All tops, no bottoms!

Remember when we were getting all of the #2s?

[Sundialsvc4]

06:20 PM on 09/28/2007

I fear that the fallacy of such assertions is the assumption that guerrilla organizations actually possess a "centralized command" hierarchy, as does a conventional Army.

The strength of a guerrilla force is precisely that it does not have a central command. If you have enough angry people, all they need is individual opportunity. And the American invasion could not have stirred-up the hornets more thoroughly.

This is also what soldiers in the field are saying, over and over again.