At first blush, this seems encouraging. Just across on CNN. According to the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, Iraqi police ran across “an insurgent group” on the road between Fallujah and Samarra and shot it out with them, wounding Abu……

Let’s get back to a country that honors our Founding Fathers, believes in God, a family with a Mother and Father, the Pledge of Allegience, the Boy Scouts of America, Honesty, Fair Play, Truth without nuance, and the belief that it is OK to try to free people from tyranny and opression, as well as defending ourselves.

PinkyBigglesworth on February 16, 2007 at 12:34 AM

Great statement. Mind if I use that quote?

Reader Gary H. e-mails to say I’m giving Khalaf a bad rap and that it’s the AP’s fault, not Khalaf’s, that Jamil Hussein wasn’t ID’d on the first go round.

I’m glag that was fixed. The AP has fooled too many people with this. How could Khalaf (or anyone else) know that Jamil Hussein was not his real name? The statement that there is no Capt. with the name Jamil Hussein is completely true.

The correct term for them is “leftist.”

Lisa Condo on February 15, 2007 at 8:34 PM

Correct, I have been guilty using the “liberal” word. They are leftists, far lefts, and left the planet.

And “faraway” has a correct post:

When will you people get in through your thick skulls.
There is no Al Qaeda in Iraq.
faraway on February 15, 2007 at 5:41 PM

They were probably a group preparing for the “climate change” concert.

Another change in tactics: al Qaeda has deployed a screen of antiaircraft weapons around Baghdad – in an attempt to cut off American and allied attempts at aerial reconnaissance.
Al Masri is trying to force troops into dangerous ground patrols where they can killed by roadside bombs or snipers.

“Launch the fighters……. get the B-5′s warmed up in the bull pen… [insert chewing tobacco]….. get me the President on the line……….”

Surge? With one hand still tied behind our backs, and Murtha [Mr. Depends.... oops] and Mz. Pelosi [blink.... blink... blink........ [I need another skin graft].. about to give up the ship?

The United States of America, in my opinion will never win another war in the age of politcal correctness.

My advice, kill political correctness….. then kill our enemies. Seriously, that’s what they want to do to us, isn’t it? Can’t anyone face that fact?

Let’s get back to a country that honors our Founding Fathers, believes in God, a family with a Mother and Father, the Pledge of Allegience, the Boy Scouts of America, Honesty, Fair Play, Truth without nuance, and the belief that it is OK to try to free people from tyranny and opression, as well as defending ourselves.

Time to purge the “socialists” from our education system so as not to pollute our children’s minds [reference to the San Francisco comic book] and our beloved liberal professors [reference to Ward Churchill, et al].

Time to grow some stones, people, the writing is on the wall….

Anyone hear what Bank of America is doing lately?????

Despite my desire to see this terrorist ‘neutralized, from we know right now the probability is very high that this story is a stretch.

Lawrence on February 15, 2007 at 6:50 PM

I so had my hopes up that I would be proven wrong on this.

The surge MUST not work. It will only embolden America to invade other countries rather than try to work with so-called terrorists and to understand their demands.

By: BigLib on February 15, 2007 at 05:37pm
greggish on February 15, 2007 at 7:56 PM

There you have it, the truth. Not only does BigLib hope for America’s defeat in Iraq, but he/she would like to sit down with the “so-called terrorists” to talk and work things out – you know, like reasonable people do (as I’m sure jihadis are).

Via MSNBC.com. BAGHDAD, Iraq – The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was wounded and an aide was killed in a clash Thursday with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman said. The clash occurred near Balad, a major……

Bill Roggio has some of the hottest news coming from Iraq in long time.Iraqi and Coalition forces may have gotten a lucky break in the hunt for the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. CNN is reporting, based on a source…

So we kill off the most radical, extreme elements of the Mahdi militia, and Sadr and the conservatives go political. Seems pretty reasonable, for Iraq.

Damn it all. See the updates…….

With the US denying it, perhaps it was an all Iraqi action which captured him.

The Iraqi’s seem to have no qualms “questioning” these terrorists. Hopefully that is the case and they’ll share the intel…after a few days of questioning.

NBC has removed the paragraph from its story about al-Masri’s capture.

Grrrrrr. And to think, I drank eight beers to celebrate. Hic.

Update: Damn it, I knew it was too good to be true — NBC has removed the paragraph from its story about al-Masri’s capture. No correction of acknowledgement of any mistake, naturally. No wonder they like Olbermann so much.

Yeah, I was going to caution people about that. NBC is the same organization who had a reporter in Iraq announce that ALL the troops he talked to oppose the surge and want out. NBC is a shameful organization… It’s like they want to be the new CBS.

Al = from or ‘of’. They use the name of their town/tribe Sadamm was an Al Tikriti – from Tikrit.