US: Top al-Qaida in Iraq Figure Captured
“Al-Mashhadani is believed to be the most senior Iraqi in the al-Qaida in Iraq network,” Bergner said. He said al-Mashhadani was a close associate of Abu Ayub al-Masri, the Egyptian-born head of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Bergner said al-Mashhadani served as an intermediary between al-Masri and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.
“In fact, communication between the senior al-Qaida leadership and al-Masri frequently went through al-Mashhadani,” Bergner said.
“Along with al-Masri, al-Mashhadani co-founded a virtual organization in cyberspace called the Islamic State of Iraq in 2006,” Bergner said. “The Islamic State of Iraq is the latest efforts by al-Qaida to market itself and its goal of imposing a Taliban-like state on the Iraqi people.”

July 18, 2007 - 08:36 AM on July 18th, 2007
I surely hope they are squeezing this goomer for all the intel in him, like the location of Bin Laden
July 18, 2007 - 08:40 AM on July 18th, 2007
Another myth busted.
July 18, 2007 - 08:55 AM on July 18th, 2007
Which myth?
July 18, 2007 - 09:07 AM on July 18th, 2007
The myth perpetrated that there is no direct connection between al Queda in Iraq and bin Laden’s al Queda, and as a result by fighting al Queda in Iraq we are doing nothing against bin laden organization.
July 18, 2007 - 09:39 AM on July 18th, 2007
Oh,I thought you might be referring to another myth or two that the left loves to promulgate at every opportunity.
July 18, 2007 - 10:25 AM on July 18th, 2007
Reserve another cage at Club Gitmo for that chap!
July 18, 2007 - 10:27 AM on July 18th, 2007
5.
That myth collapses other myths- like the one perpetrated that fighting in Iraq is not part of the GWOT.
July 18, 2007 - 11:01 AM on July 18th, 2007
Maybe they will subject him to the cruel and inhumane torture of ….GASP!! Pointing at his ball bag.
the horror.
July 18, 2007 - 11:26 AM on July 18th, 2007
6, like the myth that the Surge isn’t working.
7, I have another torture. Turning Ted Kennedy loose on this goomer’s female relations with many bottles of booze and a Kennedy pack of condoms.
July 18, 2007 - 12:02 PM on July 18th, 2007
#1, 38: Agree. Squeeze this MFer for every ounce of intel we can get.
Pull out all the stops! Commence REAL torture immediately! Fly in Lynndie England and a case of Camel non-filters! Set up the cameras and broadcast live footage of Lynndie smoking and pointing at Mashhadanni’s bare genitals!!!
That’s REAL torture!!!
July 18, 2007 - 12:14 PM on July 18th, 2007
Robert, how dare you! Then the liberals will say we have stooped to their level.
Don’t you know that pointing at a nutsack is equivalent to beheading a body, burning it and draggin it through the streets for the animals to cheer at???
where have you been?
July 18, 2007 - 01:42 PM on July 18th, 2007
I guess you’re right…pointing at a bean bag is as bad, and arguably worse…I mean, blowing up schoolchildren on the way to school or shoppers in a crowded market isn’t nice…but a dog barking at a prisoner, or the bean bag pointing! That’s just horrific!!!
Yes, perhaps we should bring this victim of Bush admin. aggression back to the U.S., put him up in the 4 seasons hotel in NYC, give him a dream team of Leftist Lawyers, then allow him to use the venue of a trial (and the willing MSM) to turn this into yet another propaganda coup for our enemies: “Oh, the poor victim! He is just a simple man, caught up in the vortex of U.S. aggression! He was framed, scapegoated by the Bush Admin. who needed a target to parade in front of the American People! of course he was tortured by Nazi-like U.S. soldiers!!!
Nah…squeeze every last ounce of intel out of the MFer then feed him to the sharks…