US Kills Al Qaeda Leader In Iraq, Twice!

By Rowan Scarborough,
Jul 6, 2007, 8:03 AM (10 hrs ago)
Examiner

Washington DC (Map, News) - The U.S. command in Baghdad this week ballyhooed the killing of a key al Qaeda leader but later admitted that the military had declared him dead a year ago.

A military spokesman acknowledged the mistake after it was called to his attention by The Examiner. He said public affairs officers will be more careful in announcing significant kills.

Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner began his Monday news conference with a list of top insurgents either killed or captured in recent operations. He said they had been eliminated "in the past few weeks" and were "recent results."

"In the north, Iraqi army and coalition forces continue successful operations in Mosul," he told reporters. "Kamal Jalil Uthman, also known as Said Hamza, was the al Qaeda in Iraq military emir of Mosul. He planned, coordinated and facilitated suicide bombings, and he facilitated the movement of more than a hundred foreign fighters through safe houses in the area." All told, Bergner devoted 68 words to Uthman's demise.

Uthman was indeed a big kill, and the military featured his death last year in a report titled "Tearing Down al Qaeda."

"The more we can bring down al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, the greater probability of reducing violence," Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the command's chief spokesman said, in 2006.

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Uthman was listed in the 2006 news release as "the chief of military operations [in] Mosul."

When The Examiner pointed out that Uthman's death had been announced twice, a command spokesman said in an e-mail,

"You are correct that we did previously announce that we killed him. This was a roll up to show an overall effort against [al Qaeda in Iraq]. We can probably do a better job on saying 'previously announced' when we do long-term roll ups to show an overall effort."

rscarborough@dcexaminer.com

More U.S. War On Terror Dinsinformation:

It has become evident with every false press release, that the U.S. military is deliberately disseminating black propaganda in a blatant attempt to artificially inflate their alleged success of what is in actual fact: their total failure in conducting their disasterous WAR OF TERROR.

The Occupations "Eagerness" to appear successful does not excuse their blatant lying to the "ViewsPapers" and the American people, about its failed and counter-productive terror operations in Iraq.

Also, this is not the first time so called Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders have been neutralized more than once.

Like the mythical Phoenix, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the supposed former leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq (who was one-legged and couldn't operate a machinegun), was apparently sent to his grave, no less than five times by the occupation.

He was first killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq, then he was killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, followed by a death during Operation Matador near the town of Qaim on the Syrian border, then he was killed, along with his mentor, Osama bin Laden, in the besieged city of Fallujah, and finally met his fifth demise in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad in the town of Hibhib near Baquba.