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Zarqawi's own minions betrayed him to the US
Muhammad Ismael, a 40- year-old Iraqi taxi driver, was standing outside his home in the tiny village of Hibhib on Wednesday evening when something unusual caught his eye. Three GMC trucks, each with blackened windows, rumbled past his home and toward the little house in a nearby grove of date palms that for more than three years had stood abandoned. "It was something very strange," Ismael said in a telephone interview a day later. "That house is always empty."Meanwhile, in Baghdad, U.S. military commanders believed they had at last cornered Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist whose murderous onslaught against Iraqi civilians and U.S. troops made him the most wanted man in all of Iraq. For the first time, the U.S. officials said they had a source deep inside his terrorist group. Zarqawi, the source told them, was in the little house in the palm grove. U.S. jets were in the sky above. In recent weeks, U.S. officials said, they had begun following a man who they believed could lead them directly to Zarqawi: his "spiritual adviser," a man named Sheikh Abd al-Rahman. A member of Zarqawi's network, captured by the Americans, had told them that the sheik was Zarqawi's most trusted adviser. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-06-10 |
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