Mosul Bomber, As Well As Regional Al Qaeda Leader, Captured
The New York Times ran a huge story on the bombing. As did everyone. Let’s see if they report the capture.
Mosul, Nov 9, (VOI)- The perpetrator of the October 15 Tuesday attack in Mosul, where six policemen were killed, was captured along with four al-Qaeda elements on Friday morning in a security operation launched by Iraqi army forces west of Mosul, an Iraqi army commander said.
“Five al-Qaeda gunmen were detained during a crackdown operation launched by the 3rd brigade forces of the Iraqi army in al-Eiwinat village in Rabiya district, west of Mosul,” General Khorshed Saleem told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“Among the detainees was the leader of al-Qaeda in the region, Muqdad Bashir Hanash, one of the perpetrators of the last Tuesday attack in the city of Mosul,” Saleem noted.
“The forces found also amounts of weapons and ammunition and lists of the group’s names,” he added.
Last Tuesday Unidentified gunmen killed six policemen in an ambush west of the city of Mosul, before burning their bodies.
Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
From the NY Times Bomb Story:
BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 — A suicide truck bomb killed as many as 16 people and wounded more than 50 others when it destroyed a police station in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, according to a Health Ministry official there.
It was not clear how many Iraqi policemen were among the dead and wounded. Some news reports quoted officials as saying that the police death toll was four.
One witness, Ali Mishal, said the bomber evaded blast walls and other defenses near the police station by approaching on side streets. “The explosion was huge, and the windows of all the houses in the neighborhood were blown out by the huge power” of the blast, he said.
The attack followed a bombing in central Baghdad on Tuesday that an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said killed at least four people, including two Iraqi policemen, and wounded 20 others. Witnesses offered differing accounts of whether the bomb was detonated during a suicide attack or had been stowed in a parked car, but they agreed that it struck an Iraqi police patrol.
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“The New York Times ran a huge story on the bombing. As did everyone. Let’s see if they report the capture.”
Yeah, Im sure that will happen.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:03 amThanks for the great news! Keep up the good work over there Pat!
November 9th, 2007 at 8:15 amReport on the capture? Why Nanski Peloski thinks that there is no “light at the end of the tunnel”. I wonder if she was talking about her ass. Then I’d believe it.
Of couse they won’t report the good news…good news cramps the LLMSM’s style too much.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:17 am