BREAKING NEWS — Zarqawi arrested in Iraq?

YTN just reported that someone presumed to be Jordanian-born terrorist Mussab al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Iraq. al-Zarqawi is wanted for, among other things, his involvement in the beheading of Cana Trading employee Kim Sun-il last month.

UPDATE: Looks like bullshit — see comments.

UPDATE II: Instapundit says it might not be bullshit, but probably is.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on July 30, 2004 at 4:24 pm, filed under South Korea, South Korean Politics. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

6 Comments

  1. Scott-in-Japan your flag
    Posted July 30, 2004 at 5:10 pm | Permalink

    If true, what is the Korean reaction going to be? Will they be publicly divided, like the US would be?

  2. iustus your flag
    Posted July 30, 2004 at 5:42 pm | Permalink

    I see no other news agencies carrying it. not even google news. . .

    I remember once argueing with a korean girl about korean news. . . just then on the tv beside us there was a report that bill gates had died. They ran through file footage of people going crazy at the stock market etc. . . then only five minutes later they came on to give a retraction. Someone had stumbled on to a fake/parody cnn website about bill gates dieing. . . one I had in fact seen a year earlier. Needless to say I won that argument.

  3. dkapflzks your flag
    Posted July 30, 2004 at 5:47 pm | Permalink

    “Reports about the arrest of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have been denied by representatives of the US Commandment and Iraq’s Interior Ministry.

    “The message about the arrest of al-Zarqawi comes from unreliable sources, Russian online edition Utro.Ru said, citing US Commandment and Iraq’s Interior Ministry.”

    http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=37556

  4. dkapflzks your flag
    Posted July 30, 2004 at 6:05 pm | Permalink

    I doubt there would be any divided opinion. Anyone who kills a Korean will be resoundly hated by all. *cough* KIM JONG IL *cough*

    *exceptions: Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sung

  5. Captain Scarlet your flag
    Posted July 31, 2004 at 7:21 am | Permalink

    some arab news orgs are reporting he has been captured too. i wouldn’t write this off yet.

  6. Eric your flag
    Posted July 31, 2004 at 8:31 am | Permalink

    Instapundit is linking to a report by AL JAZEERA that he has been captured. Who knows….
    http://instapundit.com/
    http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-b.....ce_id=2955

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