Tel-Chai Nation

The Multi-National Force and Iraq Combined Press Info Center (Hat tip: Captain's Journal) has reported that some top terrorist brass was captured:

“In one week’s time, Coalition Forces captured 11 suspected senior-level terrorists of Ansar al Sunna during a series of raids in north-central Iraq during mid-November. During the raids, Coalition Forces captured the terrorist emirs of Iraq, Ramadi, Baqubah, Tikrit, al Qa’im, Bayji and Baghdad. They also captured two terrorist facilitators, a courier, an explosives expert and a financier. The detention of these terrorists delivers a serious blow to the AAS network that is responsible for improvised explosive device attacks and suicide attacks and on Iraqi government, Coalition Forces and Iraqi civilians. The AAS network is also responsible for multiple kidnappings, small arms attacks and other crimes in the central and northern part of Iraq. AAS is considered by some to be a leading terror organization in Iraq … Although some AAS senior leadership allegedly hide in Iran, they continually plan attacks to disrupt Iraqi reconstruction efforts. This allows the AAS leadership to attempt to disrupt Iraqi reconstruction progress using their followers, while keeping the leadership out of harms way.”

As the CJ explains, an emir is a ruler or a chieftain. The gang itself, which grew out of Ansar al-Islam, has ties to Iran and al Qaeda, one more reason why talks with Iran, something that the awful Jimmy Carter and even Colin Powell are advocating, should be opposed.

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