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2007-10-04 Iraq

'$100m al-Qaeda financier' caught in Iraq

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Posted by tipper 2007-10-04 07:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 A real Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti type.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-04 08:39|| 2007-10-04 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm awaiting his email. I sure could use 20% of $100 million.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-04 09:03|| 2007-10-04 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder who the AQ "supporters" are? Saudis? Iranians? Syrians? All of them?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-04 09:22|| 2007-10-04 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Now they're getting somewhere. Forget the Quaeda 'emirs' and go for the money pipeline.
Preferably cutting if in pieces all the way back to Riyadh.

Posted by GK 2007-10-04 09:24|| 2007-10-04 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 GK - I hope they get the individual donor info either from records of this guy or waterboarding it out of him.... (maybe a video of that waterboarding could be sent to the donors... to prepare them...)

Posted by 3dc 2007-10-04 09:28|| 2007-10-04 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 3dc: "maybe a video of that waterboarding could be sent to the donors... to prepare them"

That's what I love about Rantburg readers...their compassion! :)

The video could come with a message like this:
"Dear Moron, as this message will now confirm, we now know that you have been financing murder and mayhem for reasons which frankly aren't worth a bucket of warm spit.
While we don't about your reasons, we DO care about information you may have that will lead us to additional morons of your ilk. To that end we will be visiting you soon, and have sent you a video that explains the procedure you can expect. We're doing this in order to enhance your water-boarding experience, and to ensure you dress appropriately!
We recommend shower-shoes [flip-flops], a bathing suit [something discreet] and a shower cap [in lieu of a turban].
Thanks...be seeing you...SOON!"

Posted by Justrand 2007-10-04 10:47|| 2007-10-04 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't forget those earplugs, you wouldn't want to get swimmers ear.

Posted by wxjames 2007-10-04 11:51|| 2007-10-04 11:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Tuesday I posted this comment to an article:

"Rolling up lots of operatives in all sorts of lines of terror - IED, insurgent smuggling, kidnapping, sniping, propaganda. Notably absent are money men. Where are the money men?"

I hope I don't get arrested for leaking - I honestly had no idea.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-10-04 11:51|| 2007-10-04 11:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Give wahtever is left to Soldier's Angels or some such Charity here in the US.

Posted by plainslow 2007-10-04 12:37|| 2007-10-04 12:37|| Front Page Top

#10 The intelligence services must have totally penetrated AlQiI.

We seem to be inside their loop by quite a degree now.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-10-04 12:52|| 2007-10-04 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 I hope they get the individual donor info either from records of this guy or waterboarding it out of him....

Word, 3dc. Or we could just beat the information out of him using the waterboard.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-04 14:17|| 2007-10-04 14:17|| Front Page Top

#12 He'll need a nose plug, too. The latest scare is a bacteria from warm water that when snorted sufficiently far up the nose (waaaay up)latches onto the olfactory nerve and eats it's way into your brain until you ... expire. No treatment. IIRC, six folks in the US got it last yar.

I wonder if it's ready for export?

Posted by Bobby 2007-10-04 15:56|| 2007-10-04 15:56|| Front Page Top

#13 I like Bobby's thinking. A test tube up the nostrils, shake liberally, wait 2 weeks...

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-10-04 16:27|| 2007-10-04 16:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Too slow. These amoebas need all terrain capability. Tiny little treads would work very well indeed.

1st Light Nose Assault Brigade could be a war winner.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-04 16:53|| 2007-10-04 16:53|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey GK, I am still holding my dinars close. How much longer?

Posted by Nomoney 2007-10-04 17:05|| 2007-10-04 17:05|| Front Page Top

#16 I hope they get the individual donor info either from records of this guy or waterboarding it out of him

Boy I sure hope they don't dunk his head underwater and go to lunch because they forgot he was there.

"Hey, he shoulda said something!"

In any case, I thought it was common knowledge that AQ and AQI didn't have anything to do with each other. Except for sharing names, goals, resources, and organizers, of course.

Posted by gorb 2007-10-04 17:59|| 2007-10-04 17:59|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't know about the $100 million figure but huge amounts of terror cash are flowing from elements of the House of Saud and from the United Arab Emirates. We have the means to stop all terror financing, but our leaders won't do it. In fact, relations are solidifying with the terrorist bankroll states.

There are hints that members of the Republican Party reject status quo counter-terror. I would hope that the President would defer to this group, as we approach the last year of his presidency. The greatest military power in history cannot be seen mired in perpetual wheel-spinning. American pragmatism dictates: if it doesn't work, then fix it.

Posted by McZoid 2007-10-04 18:49|| 2007-10-04 18:49|| Front Page Top

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