"Trusted Lieutenant" Watch
CNN:
Update: James Taranto seizes upon this as an "Ah-HA!" moment and asks, "Haven't we been hearing for years that al Qaeda has nothing to do with Iraq?" Well, no. TCR readers, please feel free to send him the links to the last dozen or so "Trusted Lieutenant Watches." In the meantime, I'll give him a lifetime subscription to Centcom's website for Christmas.
The U.S. military on Wednesday said American-led coalition forces captured a senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader last week in the northern city of Mosul.The operative question remains: How much more success against "al Qaeda in Iraq" can we endure?
Five others described as "suspected terrorists" were arrested in Thursday's operation.
The leader wasn't identified, but the U.S. military said he is implicated in insurgent activities in Mosul and the Karkh region of Baghdad last year when he was a "military emir."
Update: James Taranto seizes upon this as an "Ah-HA!" moment and asks, "Haven't we been hearing for years that al Qaeda has nothing to do with Iraq?" Well, no. TCR readers, please feel free to send him the links to the last dozen or so "Trusted Lieutenant Watches." In the meantime, I'll give him a lifetime subscription to Centcom's website for Christmas.
posted by The Cunning Realist at Wednesday, December 20, 2006
6 Comments:
You cannot believe a damned thing that THIS president says.
I'd need at least FOUR independent verifications of anything coming out of THIS White House or from its mouthpieces.
a "military emir" eh?
That's right, folks, the US Embassy in Baghdad has six fluent Arabic speakers.
I'd like to congratulate the US military for speaking with a remarkable level of incompetent redundancy. If I were some liberal pantywaist, I'd say something about orientalism, but "military emir" is "military commander" if taken literally from classical. And while in Classical, it can also be deployed as "Commander of the faithful" the formula has lost out to the more militant inclination.
Just sayin'. Fight the enemy, learn the language.
Lolita C. Baldor wrote that article and maybe OTB's comments make more sense. It's things trading.
bp condi on moaning...
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4414873.html
bp condi on 'investment' of money and human lives in iraq (her order...money then lives)...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061222/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rice_ap_interview
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=2762
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