Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader killed

[sabra]

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=288252006

Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader killed

Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader in northern Baghdad has been killed in a raid, the US military said.

The military identified Abu Asma, also known as Abu Anas and Akram Mahmud al-Mushhadani, as an explosives expert with close ties to important car bomb manufacturers in Baghdad.

He died in a northern Baghdad raid conducted by coalition forces with the help of Iraqi police, a military statement said.

"Intelligence reports indicated Abu Asma was in possession of, and expected to use, suicide vests against the Iraqi people and security forces," the statement said.

[jedicord]

1. Again? n/t

[Mithras61]

15. That was MY first thought also. (n/t)

[Kierkegaard]

60. Yep. That is proving to be one of the most challenging aspects

of huntin' terrists. The fuckers just won't stay dead!

[Danieljay]

2. these guys are like cats...according to the US military, they all must

have 9 lives.

Brought to you by Rummy and Company, your propaganda gurus.

[mattclearing]

3. Who? I thought that was supposed to be Zarqawi?

:shrug:

[tatertop]

12. The Zarqawi brand has become too valuable to discontinue

It takes a long time to get the xenophobic
American-Dummy-Bush-Voters to remember a foreign name.
Bush has put a lot of time, money and
effort into building the Zarqawi brand and now it
is sweeping the nation!
Anyway, they figure they have already killed him enough times.

[formercia]

33. The name you know

name branding of terrorists works the same as corn flakes.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

63. Zarqawi.

Now with more whiteners!

[Roland99]

17. Um, yeah, Was this a hostile takeover or a mere merger?

Who conducted the negotiations and why didn't we hear about it?

[mattclearing]

19. They're just making this shit up as they go along, aren't they? n/t

[Roland99]

24. Must be fans of Star Trek and.....Voltaire >>>>

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-USS-Make-Shit-Up-lyrics-Voltaire/685E2FDD2B76AD7D48256DAA0025BD68


:D

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Crappy headline from a Scotsman sub editor - "in northern Baghdad"

(or possibly the Press Association). It's "Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader in northern Baghdad". This is like describing Arnold Schwarzenegger as "the USA's leader".

[uppityperson]

53. Next, the leader in eastern Baghdad, followed by the leaders of ..

list every town, every community, etc multiple times. wow, what a headline.

[nolabels]

67. of the southwest in the northeast suburb of............

Like these fake news updates are so f-ing stupid I wonder why nobody has made good jingle or a top ten pop hit about them yet :shrug:

[kayice]

35. Maybe Zarqawi is now one of the #2s .......after #2 but before #2.

[phantom power]

4. Any moment now, every Al Qaida member will turn to glowing ashes!

Cuz terrorists are like vampires. Right?

[NMDemDist2]

5. guess they decided catching the "#2" wasn't good enough anymore

huh?

now we got the "leader"

oh happy day :sarcasm:

[maxrandb]

No, No, No

It was always, "we almost got #2, or

We "missed #2 by this much

[tatertop]

6. Abu Asma, also known as Abu Anas and Akram Mahmud al-Mushhadani

We'll never know the truth on this one, either.
I like his many names, though.

[CJCRANE]

26. Abu Cadabra...nt

[tatertop]

32. Yes, but will he make a comeback?

Was this a real man or did we invent him so we could
kill him? If the name proves catchy enough
across dumbmerica will they bring him back for an encore?

[Critters2]

34. And Haq S. Poqas

[tatertop]

38. They should appoint you manager of brand development. It's a hit!

Dumbmericans could argue over the correct way to pronounce
it. It would be a never ending riot of hilarity
and entertainment (and, FEAR, of course!)!

[The_Casual_Observer]

42. Abdul Abulbul Amir

The sons of the prophet were hardy and bold,
And quite unaccustomed to fear,
But the bravest of these was a man, I am told
Named Abdul Abulbul Amir.

This son of the desert, in battle aroused,
Could spit twenty men on his spear.
A terrible creature, both sober and soused
Was Abdul Abulbul Amir.

When they needed a man to encourage the van,
Or to harass the foe from the rear,
Or to storm a redoubt, they had only to shout
For Abdul Abulbul Amir.

[tatertop]

48. So it has been written!

First I have seen of that song.

[Mithras61]

54. Midi file and complete lyrics here:

http://www.contemplator.com/ireland/abdul.html

[tatertop]

62. Neat. Thanky

[babylonsister]

7. Would this be #1, 2, or 3? Again?

:boring:

[saigon68]

coalition forces

COULDN'T FIGHT THEIR WAY OUT OF A WET- PAPER BAG

[Taxloss]

8. This is like playing whack-a-mole

if whack-a-mole involved horrible civilian casualties.

[Critters2]

36. Geez!

You made me laugh out loud in my office! My secretary thinks I'm writing a sermon!!

[Dhalgren]

9. I thought Zarqawi was the "leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq"?

:shrug:

[Voice1]

10. Did he refuse to agree to admitting the Mosque bombing?

Perhaps the soldiers tortured him in an attempt to issue a statement on one of those websites, but he refused to do it. Following his refusal to cooperate they may have thought what the hell, let's just kill him anyway.

[maxrandb]

11. Is this #2?

or #3.

How many "top Al Quada" guys are there? This organization's flowchart must look like a Freepers Family Tree...just a straight line, where everyone is number two.

[Surya Gayatri]

22. Results of inbreeding, don' cha' know!

They all resemble each other--hard to tell them apart! SG

[hobbit709]

13. Not the #2 this time, but the actual "leader"

Hey, we're moving up!:sarcasm:

[Critters2]

43. Now we have to worry

about all the no 2's out there who will become "the leader".

"This is the song that doesn't end.
It just goes on and on, my friend..."

[Surya Gayatri]

14. Well, glory be! Will they be showing the

"mortal remains" in front of the cameras, so we can all share in this moment of celebration? Or has he been blown to smithereens, making absolute identification impossible?
SG :sarcasm:

[PATRICK]

16. What happened to that other #1 guy?

OK, Aboo Asthma is down, what about Zorro(Al Zwahiri, Zaquiri, Daiquri)?

Nice they catch this guy just when they need good news in the religious war bombings. Sound like a great
movie with a typical American happy ending. And lots of sequels like "Nightmare on Al- Mama street".

[Caution]

18. Hope his death will slow casualties for US Soldiers and Iraqi civilians

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. LOL

Like Uday and Qusay's death was supposed to do, right?

Almost three long years ago...

[Caution]

31. I guess hoping for the best is no longer something we should do?

Seriously, I'm actually starting to agree with one of the right-wing talking points. Liberals and Democrats are all about negativity these days.

The fact is that this guy was responsible for the deaths of American soldiers and innocent Iraqis. Inasmuch as I can take anything positive out of the death of a human being, I will hope that his death has at least some grain of a chance of peace.

Let's try to remember that there are bad people out there besides the Bush administration occasionally shall we?

[alcibiades_mystery]

41. Ay yay yay

There are, of course, bad actors in Iraq other than the Bush Administration, as I tell every conspiracy nut on these boards. But that doesn't change the fact that these laughable supposed benchmarks (so-and-so being killed, etc.), are just that: laughable. They are structurally unrelated to the complexity of the problem. The so-called "leadership" problem can be summed up in a line from Ice-T: "Lock me up, it's genocidal catastrophe...There'll be another one after me..." So every time one comes up, it is designed to do one thing: make you believe that progress has been made, and that all the bad that is going on is on the way to alleviation. That's a fucking lie, period. So every time we respond with "Oh, I hope this alleviates things," we are being suckers, straight up donkey-eared heels, victims (too often willing) of the flim flam. This has nothing to do with positivity or negativity. Hope is a commodity for deception in this context. You want to buy that lie, you want to package it as "positivity" and hope, that's your prerogative. But it's just a perpetuation of the lie, however lovely the package.

[Maeve]

58. Remember Dubya's card deck of evil doers?

Like you could kill/capture 52 (and a couple more jokers) and that would be that. Except they multiply like Magic decks and no one can collect the whole set of sets...

[phusion]

59. bravo!

well said.

:toast:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

45. You don't personally know what that guy was responsible for....

...and neither does anyone else. We don't even know if he's really dead, to be honest.

Yes, there are "bad people out there, but here's something for YOU to remember. We invaded Iraq illegally and immorally. Period.

None of this would be happening if the NeoCon Junta hadn't lied about Iraqi WMDs and convinced a majority of Americans that we had to attack Iraq.

[Roland99]

20. Oh, and since when did the #1 plan to *use* suicide bomb vests???

Isn't that normally meant for the peon martyrs?

[Norquist Nemesis]

23. Next!

Those #1 and #2 positions sure get filled quickly!

[Tight_rope]

25. Was this the #1 or #2 guy killer "AGAIN"?

[CJCRANE]

27. "Al-Qaida in Iraq's leader in *northern Baghdad*".

This guy is just the leader in the northern Baghdad section.

on edit: that means that Baghdad has four Al-Qaida "leaders" (N,S,E,W) and every other city and town too.

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. I've decided that anyone who uses the term "Al Qaeda in Iraq" is a

douchebag and an imbecile.

Period.

[tatertop]

39. Plainly stated, I agree.

[BushOut06]

30. I hope this was after Austin Powers questioned him

Otherwise, how will we ever find out who #2 works for?

[daleo]

37. He wasn't the leader in Iraq - northern Iraq at best

Another in a long series of #2 or #3 I guess (if you believe it).

[CJCRANE]

40. But everyone in Al-Qaeda's a leader now:

There's

"Leader of the coffee-making"
"Leader of the janitorial duties"
"Leader of photocopying"

etc

etc

[Critters2]

44. !

:rofl:

[daleo]

46. Maybe they took a hint from Wal-Mart

Where everyone is an "associate". After all, Bin-Laden was a businessman before he became a super-villain.

[Solon]

47. More like they got the idea from CFM, or Site Oil Company...

as their owners are called. At least 70% of their employees are in managment, the most popular position, "Shift Manager" for a ONE person shift.

[PassingFair]

57. Soon, they won't HAVE alQueda to kick around...

In a civil war, EVERYONE is an enemy.

:cry:

[Lori Price CLG]

49. LOL! So many Al CIAduh leaders, so little time... n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

56. "Al CIAduh" - that's good Lori, - REALLY good !

.
.
.

An acronym that shortens up describing "Military Intelligence" as an oxymoron

I luv it

:thumbsup:

[IndianaGreen]

50. Another Number 2 bites the dust

Victory! Let's bring the troops home!

[genie_weenie]

51. You know the problem is Abu Anas isn't the guys real name

Abu stands for "father of" so the "insurgents" all use Abu Something or other...

[formercia]

61. I gues that makes Fearless Leader "Abu Bushere' n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

52. One has to remember how stable Iraq could be if Saddam was still in power

.
.
.

Sure, - Saddam was not a "nice" guy

But he was a fuck of a lot better than Bush-co for Iraq

AND

Iraq's neighbors.

That's how I see it

But I's jus' a Canuk

Whadda I know??

:shrug:

[THUNDER HANDS]

55. Abu Anas -- *snicker*

I know, I'm immature.

[yurbud]

64. every time I see "al qaeda" I assume what follows is pure bullshit

[tuckessee]

65. It's very interesting that Google searches

show this fellow didn't exist until we killed him.

[radfringe]

69. chuckle...

bush* didn't know....

[LosinIt]

70. sounds like the plot to a really bad Sci-Fi movie

'he didn't exist until we killed him"

Or something we would have pondered in college when we were really, really stoned.

[pinniped]

66. File this one under B.S.

Everyone knows al-Zarqawi is the 'true' Supreme Al-Qaeda Commander in Iraq.

[HuffleClaw]

68. suuuuuure

WHICH 'al qaeda' leader this time? they seem to go through a short list of 'em from time to time, 'nearly captured', 'almost killed', 'rendered ineffective', 'almost certainly killed'...