Senior Zarqawi Aide Nabbed in Mosul

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. forces captured a man known as Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi's "most trusted operations agent in all of Iraq," a U.S. general in Iraq said Thursday.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Donald Alston told reporters Thursday that Mohammed Khalif Shaiker, also known as Abu Talha or the emir of Mosul, was nabbed on Tuesday. The arrest was a major blow to the insurgency in the northern city of Mosul, Alston said.

"This is a major defeat for the Al Qaeda organization in Iraq," he said, referring to the group led by Zarqawi and allied to Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. "Numerous reports indicated he wore a suicide vest 24 hours a day and stated that he would never surrender. Instead, Talha gave up without a fight."

Source: Fox News

And down goes another one.