Thursday, March 22, 2007

Iraq - Top al-Sadr aide captured over kidnapping, killing of five U.S. soldiers

Everyday there are more indications that the surge is working. All the Democrats who have invested in our failure are sweating bullets as the dynamic in Iraq begins to change. Just watch, they'll choose an incessant string of pointless hearings as a refuge and to draw attention away from any good news.

BAGHDAD, March 22 (Reuters) - U.S. forces have captured a senior aide to anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr over the kidnapping and killing of five U.S. soldiers in the Iraqi city of Kerbala in January, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

"Over the past several days, coalition forces in Basra and Hilla captured Qais Khazaali, his brother Laith Khazaali, and several other members of the Khazaali network, an organisation directly connected to the kidnapping and murder in January of five American soldiers in Kerbala," the military said in a statement. Qais Khazaali is a former spokesman for Sadr and now a senior aide to the cleric.

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