Posted by Jeremy Brown
If this is true and leads to a capture it would certainly help to set an optimistic tone for the January 30th elections:
Kirkuk – Security forces were on Tuesday focussing their hunt for Iraq’s most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on an area in north-central Iraq after receiving a tip-off, an Iraqi national guard officer said.
“We received concrete information from very reliable sources that Zarqawi was transferred today (Tuesday) to Tuz Khormatu and is heading to Baquba,” staff brigadier general Anwar Hamad Ameed, the national guard chief in the northern city of Kirkuk, told AFP.
He gave no further details.
I don’t know whether he’s a myth or a composite, but if so he is a myth and a composite responsible for some of the most horrific acts of murder it is possible to conceive of. (Hat Tip: Roger)
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