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2005-04-27 Iraq-Jordan

Getting Zarqawi's laptop helped US to capture his aides

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-04-27 12:18:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dollars not Euros??

Posted by Howard UK 2005-04-27 8:08:50 AM|| 2005-04-27 8:08:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It was â¬80,000.

Posted by ed 2005-04-27 8:22:48 AM|| 2005-04-27 8:22:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yahoo news excerpt:
NBC, quoting U.S. military sources, reported Tuesday that among the items seized with the laptop were several small plug-in hard drives. Numerous pictures of Zarqawi were found in the computer's "My Pictures" file, the network said.

Captured in the Feb. 20 operation was Talib Mikhlif Arsan Walman al-Dulaymi, also known as Abu Qutaybah, an Iraqi government announcement said at the time. Qutaybah "filled the role of key lieutenant for the Zarqawi network, arranging safe houses and transportation as well as passing packages and funds" to Zarqawi, the government said. It said Qutaybah was a known associate of other Zarqawi lieutenants already held by coalition forces, including Abu Ahmed, an al-Qaida-linked insurgent leader in the northern city of Mosul, who was detained Dec. 22.

During the same raid, Iraqi forces captured another Zarqawi aide who "occasionally acted as his driver," the government said. He was identified as Ahmad Khalid Marad Ismail al-Rawi, who also helped arrange meetings for al-Zarqawi. He also is known as Abu Uthman.

Posted by ed 2005-04-27 8:29:34 AM|| 2005-04-27 8:29:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 When you are on the run, why the heck do you take pictures of yourself and keep them on your laptop!?!?!? Those things are easily lost, just ask the people at Los Alamos.

Dumbass.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-04-27 8:47:36 AM|| 2005-04-27 8:47:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dollars not Euros??

Better hold on to those dollars - they might be worth something someday. ;)

Posted by BH 2005-04-27 10:02:35 AM|| 2005-04-27 10:02:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ed is right, the currency was Euros. Equivalent to about US $104,000. And given the way the major European economies are going, I'm not sure holding the funds for long would be wise. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-27 12:14:02 PM|| 2005-04-27 12:14:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Repost from yesterday but there's no reason anyone on the lam would be carrying euros in Iraq today. The hard currency of choice is dollars (Iraq's oil revenues are in dollars) and converting the euros to $$ forces you to surface and risk drawing the authorities' attention.

A more likely explanation, as I think Seafarious pointed out, is that the euros came from Europe. Italy's ransom for Sregna, perhaps?

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-27 12:19:37 PM|| 2005-04-27 12:19:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Zarqawi may not have Dell's latest, but I'll bet he's not using the World's Original Laptop for those who can support 25 pounds on their lap.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-27 3:11:54 PM|| 2005-04-27 3:11:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah, ya beat me to it, Mrs D! Same pic, diff thread. I had one. It, er, worked.

Posted by .com 2005-04-27 3:22:53 PM|| 2005-04-27 3:22:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 hehehe.. Mrs Davis, I actually own an Osbourne-1. Also a Kaypro (4) - which is built like a tank and has a all-metal cabinet. I kind of collect old (pre-PC) computers.

Now if Psy-Ops was really smart they would 'leak' that there was a lot of porn on the laptop as well......

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-04-27 3:24:04 PM|| 2005-04-27 3:24:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Groovy. Does the Osborne use the EIGHT INCH floppies?

Posted by Seafarious 2005-04-27 3:30:23 PM|| 2005-04-27 3:30:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Emily, once again, you've fallen for a guy lying about the size of his "floppy"

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-27 3:31:48 PM|| 2005-04-27 3:31:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Y'mean it wasn't eight inches? Golly.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-04-27 3:38:35 PM|| 2005-04-27 3:38:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, if you measured from his, um...

Posted by .com 2005-04-27 3:41:12 PM|| 2005-04-27 3:41:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 CF - I wonder if it would survive an EMP hit... just kidding...

Posted by .com 2005-04-27 3:46:29 PM|| 2005-04-27 3:46:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 ima set type with olde S-300 bus

Posted by half 2005-04-27 5:34:33 PM|| 2005-04-27 5:34:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Memories.... Mr. Wife later had surgery on the elbow of his carrying arm as a result of having the Compaq version of that thing later in the 1980's.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-27 6:05:14 PM|| 2005-04-27 6:05:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Wow. Nice graphic. What do you use to identify that thing, radiocarbon dating?

Posted by Dave D. 2005-04-27 6:48:31 PM|| 2005-04-27 6:48:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I remember the 28 pounds Compaq 'luggable' computer well, although without affection. Carrying it around messed up my back.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-27 7:10:12 PM|| 2005-04-27 7:10:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I think the graphic is of a Compaq 'executive' with a massive 10Mb hard disk - the upgrade from the Compaq 1 (with 2 floppies) which I had to pack around.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-04-27 7:30:10 PM|| 2005-04-27 7:30:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Heh, I remember buying a 20MB Tallgrass HD - the case was almost as large as the PC. I upgraded to dual-sided 180K floppies from the original single-sided 160K's at the same time. That set me back about $3000.

Posted by .com 2005-04-27 7:37:44 PM|| 2005-04-27 7:37:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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