From Reuters:
Iraq has announced the capture of a senior aide to leading militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, hours after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
The seizure of Abu Omar al-Kurdi, accused of masterminding some of the worst car bombings in Iraq, appeared to be a major breakthrough for the authorities ahead of next Sunday’s historic election, which Zarqawi and his followers have vowed to disrupt.
Abu Omar, also known as Sami Mohammed al-Jafi, was seized in a raid in Baghdad on January 15, the government said on Monday in a statement released six days before the election.
He is blamed for over 30 bombings including the attack on the U.N. headquarters in August 2003 which killed special envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 20 others, and a blast in Najaf the same month which killed 80, including a top Shi’ite cleric.
“Kurdi has confessed to some 75 percent of the car bombs that were used for attacks in Baghdad since March 2003 and to making the explosives used in the attack on the Jordanian embassy in August 2003,” said government spokesman Thair al-Naqib.
Gee, I hope the Iraqi Security Forces interrogating him didn’t do anything, y’know…coercive. Because when you capture a terrorist and then use coercive interrogation methods in an attempt to stop the next terrorist attack, the terrorists have already won.
Although you’d probably get a little bit of an argument about that from Abu Omar al-Kurdi’s fingernails—currently holed up in an otherwise empty Taster’s Choice jar in Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s garage.
I have some glowsticks left over from the last run to the surplus store. Where do I send them?
I have it on good authority that a case of Lindy England’s panties are en route to the jail where al-Kurdi is being held.
Actually, the fingernails are no longer in Allawi’s garage. I bought them off ebay this morning for $2,056.37; I couldn’t pass the deal up. The PM even threw in a toasted cheese sandwich that bore the image of none other than Martha Stewart – no lie. I figured I needed something to give Jeff for his B-day (mazal tov beeyotch!) anyways right?
These people are, after all, PATRIOTS and MINUTEMEN. They are only DEFENDING THEIR COUNTRY by trying to blow up most of the civilian population of same. We should by all means encourage the Iraqui security services to try to understand the motivation behind such acts, and to take steps to defuse the situation through dialogue and compromise. Look at how well that has worked in Gaza.
NO. HUMAN. PYRAMIDS.
naked or otherwise.
Just speaking truth to power (whatever that means..)
I’m betting that the CIA liaison began to give them the stern “no waterboarding” lecture, but just couldn’t keep himself from laughing as they turned up the volume on the Beach Boys’ hit “Surfin’ Safari” to 150db in Al-Kurdi’s cell.
Well, whatever you’re do, don’t humiliate them ‘cause an Iraqi insurgent’s mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Who’s Lindy England? Wouldn’t it be better to error on the safe side and put a pair of Rosie O’Donnel’s panties over his head?
I know, I know, there go my chances at ever being appointed Attorney General.
You mean ERR. Or whatever.
And I would think Rosie’s panties would drop right down to his feet if you tried putting them on his head. Even if he was kneeling.
According to the Washington Post, the most humiliating thing you can do to a muslim is show his porn collecton to his mother.
Right on, RR.
Just wait til al-Kurdi’s mom sees his stash’o’porn. He’ll sing like a canary.
I’m thinking rechargeable batteries. For every civilian killed on purpose that means an extra hour in the recharger.