TERRORIST WATCH….Osama bin Laden might be dead. Or he might not be. Or maybe he just has a “water-borne illness.” Who knows? But at least we seem to have put a different baddie out of commission:
U.S. and Iraqi forces have captured a leader of Ansar al-Sunnah, the group behind the 2004 attack on a U.S. military mess hall that killed 22 people, the prime minister’s office said Saturday.
Muntasir Hamoud Ileiwi al-Jubouri and two of his aides were arrested in Al-Taeyh, about 50 miles northeast of Baghdad, said Brig. Qassim al-Mussawi, spokesman for the General Command of the Armed Forces ? the prime minister’s military office. He did not say when the arrest was made.
The Sunni militant group has claimed responsibility for numerous suicide attacks, the August 2004 execution of 12 Nepalese hostages and a December 2004 explosion at a U.S. military mess hall in Mosul that killed 22 people. It is believed to be an offshoot of another group, Ansar Al-Islam.
That’ll have to do for now. As for the big guy himself, wait and see.
