AP's just noticing this? Geraldo was on top of it before they even knew who the dead guy was.
U.S. troops killed a key lieutenant to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a militant with suspected ties to al-Qaida, the military said Tuesday.
| Oh, we're just talking about the deader some more... |
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. The troops returned fire, killing Hamza, he said.
| Geraldo sez it was a unit of 3rd ACR and that Hamza shot one of our guys, hitting him in the face. Our guy blew Hamza away before retiring — alive, kicking, but with a massive toothache — from the field... |
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. |