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From an AP story on the death of Zarqawiâs bombmaker ...U.S. troops killed a key lieutenant to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a militant with suspected ties to al-Qaeda, the military said Tuesday. Abu Mohammed Hamza, believed to have been a bombmaker for al-Zarqawi, was killed Thursday in Habaniyah after U.S. troops came under fire while distributing leaflets, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said. Kimmitt, the coalition deputy operations chief, said several people were arrested. He said troops searching the house where Hamza was killed found "a large quantity" of bomb-making materials and explosives, pro-Saddam Hussein literature and pictures of al-Zarqawi. Troops found a Jordanian passport on Hamza but were still trying to confirm his nationality, Kimmitt said. The question then becomes, what exactly was a mid-level al-Qaeda leader doing with Baathist reading material given the meme that al-Qaeda would never cooperate with a secular infidel? Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-02-24 |
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