{"id":1400,"date":"2006-02-27T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T05:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2006-02-27T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T05:09:04","slug":"senior-zarqawi-aide-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"Senior Zarqawi Aide Captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too many times has the story been trumpeted that the noose is tightening around the neck of bloody terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve played my part in the brass soundings.  Still, one day one of these stories just may be the linchpen to the bastard&#8217;s demise.  Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,10117,18297897-23109,00.html\">this<\/a> is the one, though I&#8217;m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraqi Interior Ministry forces captured a senior aide to al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraqi state television said.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqiya named the man as Abu Farouq and said he was captured with five others in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>It said Abu Farouq al-Suri, previously unknown to the media, was captured by the Wolf Brigade, one of several counter-insurgency units operating within the Shiite-run Interior Ministry but accused by Sunnis of targeting civilians in their community.<\/p>\n<p>The word Suri is Arabic for Syrian, indicating that the captured man may have come from Iraq&#8217;s western neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>US military spokespeople were unaware of the capture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previous postings, all too familiar and hopeful, are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=583\">Zarqawi Aides Captured<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=286\">Zarqawi Aide Killed During U.S. Air Strike<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=275\">Terrorist Associate Seized in Iraq<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I ain&#8217;t even going to pretend I blogged each rendition of this tale.  Still, every single one brings hope for the end of the menace that is Zarqawi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too many times has the story been trumpeted that the noose is tightening around the neck of bloody terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve played my part in the brass soundings. Still, one day one of these stories just may be the linchpen to the bastard&#8217;s demise. Maybe this is the one, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}