Not Abu Ayyub al-Masri ... Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. He's rated as a very high target at Global Security. Abu Ayyub al-Masri actually declared allegiance to him in November 2006. Some reports at the time claimed the two may be competing for power.
This below via the NY Sun. In December he issued a web audio tape giving the US a month to leave Iraq. IraqSlogger has some background on his identity. According to his wiki he's an Iraqi and has met with bin Laden directly.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi is Al Qaeda's guy in Iraq, and nowadays, the Sunni insurgency is being whittled down to Al Qaeda's activity in Iraq. It's that simple, and he's that important.
via WaPo: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed the head of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, an al Qaeda-led militant group that has claimed many major attacks in the country, Iraq's deputy interior minister said on Thursday.
U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver declined to comment but said a news conference would be held later on Thursday to announce the "success" of an operation against Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.
He stressed that the topic would not be Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq -- which is the main al Qaeda network in the country.
Understandably, PJM has a question mark - we've been burned before. I gather they will be tracking.
Say we leave Iraq today. All of our troops gone.
al-Maliki get killed, the government gets taken over by the Sadrists, and other radical right facists. Huge ethnic cleansing takes place. The Kurds will probably be the first to go. Then who knows what will happen next. We only know one thing. The massive death will be blamed on President Bush by the radical left.
No matter what Bush does he gets blamed. Why should he care about approval ratings. Heck, a hurricane hit New Orleans and he gets blamed. Right when you think it can't get dumber Leftards blame Bush for the weather.
...I think this means its fair to blame the Kennedy assassination on himself, you see, he did nothing to stop it, therefore he is guilty. Right Jaime.
You can answer after you finnish your next near-beer.
Posted by: Jeff | Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 10:46 PM
I hate to break it to you, but the Sadr-ists are already in control. Iraq is becoming more and more a puppet of Iran. Now, we can suppose all day. Imagine infinite outcomes. Maybe Al-Maliki learns kung fu and uses his magic nunchucks to defeat the Shiites clerics all by himself.
Bush should get blamed for everything thats happening. It was his war. He chose to fight it and now matter how it ends its all his legacy. And I still don\\\'t know if you know this, massive death is occuring RIGHT NOW.
Charles. Grow a pair. Seriously. My statement has less to with sex and more to do with power. You call me cookie cutter and you bend to every whim and accept any and all garbage this administration shoves down your throat. And you have the cojones to call liberals homophobic when your buddy hard right did everything he could not to call me a dirty queer in the post right after you.
\\\"Hey inbred, YOU call it staying the course, but have no idea what it means. It\\\'s just another mindless phrase you leftards spew.\\\"
REALLY? REALLY? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afmqe-2IzC8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jq0j80UB_c
Yes. A mindless phrase that liberals spew. George Bush has NEVER been stay the course, right?
Posted by: jaime | Friday, May 04, 2007 at 02:55 AM
"Tom B, why don\'t you actually read the post where I answered your question. I\'m not going to answer your questions and then have those answered with more questions. Nothing I say will satisfy you and you arent interested in dialogue."
Please point out where you answered my specific questions. Becuase all I see are evasions.
Posted by: TomB | Friday, May 04, 2007 at 07:26 AM
jamie has a familiar style. It might be called slo-mo-explo. Suspiciously like yyy and nowinger (who are suspiciously not available for comment while jamie is on stage doing her strip...no not that kind, the kind where she takes off her sane duds and dons the Bedlam outfit).
Posted by: Fred Beloit | Friday, May 04, 2007 at 11:54 AM
Jamie is an intersting card... he digs:
"300/Lord of the Rings War porn"
Ewwww. Hobbits and Spartan warriors... Yikes.
You sir... are definitely a freakazoid.
Posted by: seekeronos | Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 02:29 AM