{"id":1635,"date":"2008-05-09T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2008-05-09T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T16:44:15","slug":"no-its-not-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"No, it’s not him"},"content":{"rendered":"

In headier and news-starved times, everyone convinced themselves that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq had been captured, but US officials in Iraq deny that it’s true (Fox News\/Associated Press<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

The U.S. military denied Friday that the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq \u2014 Abu Ayyub al-Masri \u2014 had been captured, saying instead that a man with a similar name was arrested in the northern city of Mosul.<\/p>\n

Iraqi authorities on Thursday said Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul.<\/p>\n

“Neither coalition forces nor Iraqi security forces detained or killed Abu Ayyub al-Masri. This guy had a similar name,” said Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, a U.S. military spokeswoman in northern Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The story goes on to recount that numerous phone calls to Iraqi officials confirmed that it was indeed al-Masri, however that doesn’t seem to be the case at all.<\/p>\n

“We called the commander of Ninevah operations 10 times and every time he insisted it was Abu Hamza al-Muhajir because when they caught him, they asked him whether his name was Abu Hamza al-Muhajir and he said yes,” al-Askari told the Associated Press by phone.<\/p>\n

He added that the commander repeatedly “insisted that it was him, how can we deny him then.”<\/p>\n

There had been false alarms in the past about al-Masri. At least twice — in 2006 and May 2007 — reports circulated that he was dead, but they were later proved wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How many times has the Associated Press used this same excuse for broadcasting news that isn’t true, with even less reliable sources than the Iraq military and police?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In headier and news-starved times, everyone convinced themselves that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq … No, it’s not him<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}