US Denies Al Qaeda Claim (Abu Ayyub al Masri greased?)

[Malsua]

Did we bag another dirtbag? Is the greasy stain in a hovel in Iraq what used to be Abu Ayyub al Masri? Is Abu Ayyub al Masri now getting a hot sand enema from a cacodemon on the 2nd level of hell? I guess time will tell.

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...236199,00.html
US Denies Al Qaeda Claim


Updated: 11:53, Thursday October 05, 2006

The US military has denied claims that the leader of terror group al Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a raid on militants.

Iraqi government sources said they expected DNA tests on one of the bodies to confirm that Abu Ayyub al Masri had been killed.

But the US, which had immediately expressed scepticism, has now said it believes Masri was not one of four militants killed in an air and ground attack.

Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson said: "We believe he is still alive."

Masri, an Egyptian who is also known as Abu Hamza al Muhajir, assumed the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq after Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi was killed in a US airstrike in June.

Lt Col Johnson said: "There was a raid recently where we thought he may have been among those killed, but now we think it is highly unlikely."

Earlier, a member of parliament close to prime minister Nouri al Maliki, Hasan al Senaid, and a second source in the prime minister's office, who did not want to be named, said Masri had been killed in a US assault on a "safe house" in Haditha in western Iraq.

Zarqawi was killed in June

Before the US denial, Mr Mr Senaid said: "Two days ago three people were killed in an airstrike on Haditha. Today it became clear from DNA tests that Masri was one of them."

Later a senior government official said this was "simply not true".
Defence Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said: "It appears that the body ... was checked by US forces and is not that of Abu Ayyub al Masri."
Another aide to Mr Maliki said the DNA tests suggested that one of the dead was an al Qaeda leader, but not Masri.

There was no immediate explanation for the confusion among the officials.
Earlier this month Iraq's national security adviser, Mowaffak al Rubaie, said Masri's "days are numbered" after US and Iraqi forces announced the capture of his deputy and the killing of a close aide.

Lt Col Johnson said: "We are trying to get closer to him every day and we believe we are doing so."

Al Qaeda makes up about 5% of Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency but its suicide bombers have caused some of the worst violence, often killing more than 100 people in a single attack.

Zarqawi is thought to have been behind a string of kidnappings of Western hostages - including Briton Ken Bigley - and is thought to have personally beheaded some of them.

[Isaiah40:31]

Dead, or not dead... Captured or not captured... we get the same song with almost all of these demon heads and most of the time a major event occurs shortly afterward,,

here we go again

[Sean Osborne]

Exactly correct Isaiah. Yet another message went around the web today from a talib in Afghanistan warning of mass casualty attack against the US during the current islamic month of Ramadan. Couple of weeks to go.

I can't wait for Thanksgiving Day 2006.

Ditto Christmas and New Years.

[Isaiah40:31]

it's amazing that "extremist muslims" can make any sense of the Koran, especially Modemonhamed's Ramadan. You're supposed to be peaceful, unless your are martyr-jihadi-ing, and if you are on the road and can't practice Ramadan correctly then you are exempt from the -peaceful- until a time when you can practice it correctly.

So in other words, you can still martyr-homicide yourself whether it's Ramadan or not, just make sure you scare, intimidate, insult, and subdue lots of infidels. Oh ya and make sure they don't offend your religion!

such double talk, and the best way to take advantage is to confuse people and set them up, like saying someone is here or there to lead a diversion.