Head of al Qaeda in Iraq Captured Update: You Gotta Believe...
By Rizzuto

Thu May 08, 2008 - Hot Air is reporting on it...with some skepticism. It's true that these reports come out from time to time, but for the time being we'll hold out hope that it's true this time. This from Reuters:
Iraqi and U.S. forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi security officials said on Friday.

The Arabic television station al-Arabiya, quoting the Iraqi Defence Ministry, said the detained suspect was the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, an Egyptian called Abu Ayyab al-Masri, but also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.

The U.S. military in Baghdad said it had no immediate information on the reports that Masri has been caught in the northern city of Mosul, which American generals say is al Qaeda's last remaining urban stronghold in Iraq.
If this turns out to be true, it seems he valued his life too much to be a "martyr".

Conpunk Flashback: We reported that this is the delightful fellow that CNN was mistakenly claiming had died of Hepatitis back in April (actually they were just using his picture because they apparently limit their research to Wikipedia.) Check that story here.

Update BBC Reporting

CNN Reporting

Reuters Reporting

Al Jazeera Reporting

Guardian Reporting

Question: Does anyone care if this guy gets waterboarded?

Update CBS News reporting the story false...heartbreak...

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Comments : 2 Comments

ick9192 commented, on May 9, 2008 at 9:42 a.m.:

I have a cousin missing a leg because of this asshole. Fuck waterboarding, smack him around!

ska-punk commented, on May 9, 2008 at 9:43 a.m.:

Honey.
African ants.
Nude.

'nuff said.