U.S. Finds Al Qaeda Personnel List
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had discovered a list of 500 al Qaeda militants recruited to fight in Iraq from a range of European, Middle East and north African countries.
Spokesman Major-General Kevin Bergner said the information was unearthed in September when a senior al Qaeda in Iraq member, called Muthanna, was killed along with seven other militants near Sinjar in northwest Iraq.
The U.S. military blames fighters recruited outside Iraq for many of the suicide attacks targeting U.S. and Iraqi forces and has previously criticized neighbors such as Syria for not checking the flow of foreign militants across borders into Iraq.
“Muthanna was the emir of Al Qaeda of Iraq and the Syrian border area and he was a key facility of the movement of foreign terrorists once they crossed into Iraq from Syria. He worked closely with Syrian-based al Qaeda foreign terrorist facilitators,” he said.
Bergner told a news conference that the information discovered included 143 biographies of foreign recruits, with personal data, photographs, their recruiters’ names, date of entry into Iraq and the route they took.
“They came from a range of foreign countries that included Libya, Morocco, Syria, Algeria, Oman, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom,” he said.
“In other documents that we found included a formal pledge from foreign terrorists who were committed to suicide operations,” Bergner said.
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Ah, a link to the home networks, move and move fast!
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:20 amEarly Christmas gift list.
..He’s making a list, checking it twice, and he’s take your stinkin’ hide and put it on ice, Uncle Sam is coming to towm…
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:39 amNames found on the list:
George Soros
Harry Reid
Jack Murtha
Nancy Pelosi
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Ted Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
Charles Shcumer
John Kerry
Sean Penn
Michael Moore…
too many enemys of the state to list here.
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:41 amhey do you think they are gonna publish the list?
Then we can prank all the al-qaeda guys relentlessly, that’ll get ‘em!
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:53 amOutstanding intel job. The home networks are the routes of infiltration start in the mosques. Why not hit the mosques that these clowns came out of? Islamophobia you say? Don’t think so…Try this on for size:
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/10/03/new-jihad-watch-the-orwellian-islam-is-peace-campaign/
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 amMuthanna, is that the arabic spelling of Murtha?
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:57 amDMac
..you may be on to something there, probably a close relative to the asshole from PA
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:02 ampod1.. be carefull or there will be a resolution condeming ur citizenshi.and choise of meat with ur eggs…
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:37 amPOD 1 like your list!
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 amAnybody remember how it wasn’t that long ago that the Dems were denyint that Al Qaeda even had a presence in Iraq? There’s no way to trust ANYTHING they say about Iraq, because they only say what’s good for them. and since what’s good for them is defeat, they only have bad things to say about Iraq.
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:07 amThe (cell) leaders listed by Pod 1 benefit from al Qaeda’s full coverage health care plan and only want to spread that coverage to their fellow Americans. What’s wrong with that?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:08 am(some dippy Dem)
“Because your kiss … your kiss … is on my list …”
Heh-Heh-Heh!
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Pod1 … Paraphrasing “John Winger”, `You’re an animal … I wanna party with you, dude!’
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:26 am