Iraq

Source: www.reuters.com --- 11 hours ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping in a house in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said on Friday. ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 9 hours ago
The U.S. military says the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been not been captured. ...

Source: news.com.au --- 11 hours ago
THE US military has denied that Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Ayyub al-Masri - who carries a US bounty of $5.3 million - had been captured by security forces. ...

Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com --- 11 hours ago
Iraqi police said they captured Abu Ayyub al-Masri — also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir — the leader of the Sunni insurgent... ...

Source: dir.salon.com --- 10 hours ago
U.S. soldiers drink water, lots of it, in scorching hot Baghdad. Plus, patrolling the streets with a less than disciplined Iraqi army squad. ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 9 hours ago
The U.S. military says the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been not been captured, despite a claim by the Iraqi government. A military spokeswoman says it was a case of mistaken identity on the part of the Iraqi security forces. ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 9 hours ago
The Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman says the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been arrested in the northern city of Mosul. ...

Source: www.metafilter.com --- 10 hours ago
Killing by the numbers. "In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?" ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 9 hours ago
The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq. ...

Source: www.usnews.com --- 10 hours ago
Douglas Feith's new book, War and Decision, is a step forward in understanding the Iraq conflict. ...

Source: blogcritics.org --- 11 hours ago
We should not be fighting a war for Europe's cultural survival with our money and men in the middle east. There are better ways. George W. Bush's ongoing peacekeeping and democracy building mission in Iraq annoys a lot of people for a lot of reasons, but it does make some sense in the context of Wilsonian diplomacy where you accept the concept that it is the job of the great powers of the world to maintain peace and order so that the poorer and more chaotic nations of the... ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 11 hours ago
Irish Times May 9 2008 6:12AM GMT ...

Source: www.ert.gr --- 10 hours ago
As per the Iraqi authorities, a person arrested Wednesday by the US and Iraqi forces admitted he is the Al Qaeda leader in Iraq ...

Source: www.euronews.net --- 11 hours ago
The leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq has been captured according to Defence Ministry officials there. The detained suspect is said to be an Egyptian called Abu Ayyab al Masri. ...

Source: www.buzzflash.net --- 12 hours ago
A late-night court filing by the White House on Monday revealed that official administration emails about the run up to the invasion of Iraq and the initial occupation may never be recovered. During a hearing on possible violations of the Presidential Records Act in February, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Maryland) implied the email archiving system had been intentionally destroyed by the Bush administration to allow White House staff to cover their tracks and erase evidence of wrongdoing. "I have to believe that [American citizens] would find it completely implausible that this amount of email would just disappear by accident. And I mean to imply what I'm implying," Sarbanes said.   »  original news ...

Source: www.thenewstribune.com --- 8 hours ago
BAGHDAD – Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold. ...

Source: www.alsumaria.tv --- 9 hours ago
Clashes are ongoing in Sadr City and air shelling is targeted on Sadr City as seven people were killed and tens others were wounded in recent hours. Clashes caused major damages to a number of houses and civilian cars. In Saadun Street, two citizens were killed and four others wounded in Katyusha ... ...

Source: www.radionetherlands.nl --- 10 hours ago
Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian national, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul following a tip-off from a captured associate. The arrest comes as a major blow for al-Qaeda and other Sunni insurgents in Iraq. Al-Qaeda is being held responsible for a large number of attacks, including the 2006 bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra, which set off a wave of sectarian violence. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 9 hours ago
Arabic television station al-Arabiya has reported the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, has been arrested. ...