Reuters reports Iraq announced the capture of a senior aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Monday:
The seizure of Abu Omar al-Kurdi, accused of masterminding some of the worst car bombings in Iraq, appeared to be a major breakthrough ahead of next Sunday's landmark 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 Jan. 15, the government said in a statement released six days before the election.
He is blamed for over 30 bombings including the attack on U.N. offices in August 2003 which killed the U.N. representative 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 Thair al-Naqib, spokesman for Iraq's interim government.
"Kurdi also confirmed he was responsible for some of the bloody attacks on the police."
The government said Abu Omar had received instructions from Zarqawi to carry out a series of bomb attacks on election day.
The Associated Press reports that "two other militants linked to al-Zarqawi's terror group also have been arrested, authorities said -- a man described as the chief of al-Zarqawi's propaganda operations and one of the group's weapons suppliers."
The Washington Post revealed, in an article about Zarqawi's war against democracy, it was the Iraqi police who caught Abu Omar al-Kurdi:
Meanwhile, the U.S. military said Iraqi police arrested one of the top insurgent suspects and two other people Saturday. The military said U.S. soldiers had been trying to catch the man, whom it did not name, for almost a year.
This very good news. Not only has an impotant bad guy been captured by the Iraqis.
At Rantingprofs, Cori Dauber criticizes the post for burying the news is in one paragraph in an article on another topic, so of course when it's said that the Iraqis aren't ready, haven't accomplished anything, no one will think or remember otherwise.
Unfortunately, professor Dauber is absolutely right. Just more evidence of the biased mainstream media.
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