U.S. Military Denies Reports of Zarqawi Capture (it was a look-alike)

[papau]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=5&u=/nm/20040628/ts_nm/iraq_zarqawi_dc

U.S. Military Denies Reports of Zarqawi Capture

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military denied reports Monday that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant who Washington says is allied to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, had been captured in Iraq.


"It's not true, the reports are not true," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the U.S. military in Iraq, told Reuters. "We've heard the reports about it, but they are not true."


Earlier, reports on a U.S.-funded Iraqi radio station had suggested Zarqawi had been captured near the town of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, in an area controlled by Polish troops. Iraqi officials in Hilla said a man had been captured who resembled Zarqawi and spoke with a similar accent.


<snip>"The detained man looked like al-Zarqawi but it was not him," a military source in the Polish-led multinational force headquarters in Babylon told Reuters.

[tlcandie]

1. Ahhh shucks!! You don't say!!!!! eom

[qanda]

2. Kimmitt: "It looked like al-Zarqawi, but we knew it wasn't him

Because this guy had both his legs and was alive."

[Gloria]

3. Posted an article last night in the

WMW (URL below) about how Zaq. may be being used as a a "bogeyman." Although he's behind some stuff, the article speculates that he's being turned into the current "poster boy" for US purposes.
Zaq. does apparently have a great deal of control/contacts with regard to getting weapons, etc. but he isn't masterminding every attack in Iraq....

He's being "spotted" so often that one American military man says he's referred to as "Elvis." Military intelligence is not as willing to pin it all on Zaq as others are...

[stickdog]

4. Was it an AIDE or a LOOK-ALIKE???

Get your cover stories straight!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. It was an Elvis impersonator. n/t

[orthogonal]

5. No surprise. To this Administration Saddam "looks like" bin Laden

No surprise. To this Administration Saddam "looks like" bin Laden

[keithyboy]

6. What if Saddam claimed that he was really not Saddam but a double?

That would be funny as hell. How could we prove otherwise? BAWHAAAAAAA
Just the thought of this makes me laugh!

[hightime]

8. BAWHAAAAAAA...They used DNA given by his family members.

[drfemoe]

9. Polish-led multinational force headquarters in Babylon

Now there's something I never expected.