Zarqawi arrested in Iraq?

Posted by Robert on January 4, 2005 6:53 AM

No Western sources are picking it up. It's only being reported by Itar-Tass out of Russia. So I pass it on to you for what it's worth, which probably isn't much. "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly arrested in Iraq," from [1] Itar-Tass:

DUBAI, January 4 (Itar-Tass) - Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, whom the US occupation authorities declared to be the "target number one" in Iraq, has been arrested in the city of Baakuba, the Emirate newspaper al-Bayane reported on Tuesday referring to Kurdish sources. Al-Zarqawi, leader of the terrorist group Al-Tawhid Wa'al-Jihad, was recently appointed the director of the Al-Qaeda organisation in Iraq.

The newspaper's correspondent in Baghdad points out that a report on the seizure of the terrorist, on whom the US put a bounty of 10 million dollars, was also reported by Iraqi Kurdistan radio, which at one time had been the first to announce the arrest of Saddam Hussein.


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/01/zarqawi-arrested-in-iraq.html

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[1] http://www.tass.ru/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1619544&PageNum=0