Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal: Boy, is my face red
Wow:
Iraqi security forces caught terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Fallujah area last year but released him because they didn’t realize who he was, the deputy interior minister said in an interview broadcast Friday.
The deputy minister, Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal, told the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., that Iraqi police “suspected this man” and detained him “along with other members” of his group.
“Afterward, he was released because we did not know the identity of this criminal,” Kamal told LBC. The station said the remarks were made Wednesday but were aired Friday.
Oopsie.
December 16th, 2005 at 3:30 pm
… Wow. Wow. And we’re supposed to let these people take complete control? Not until we give them some nifty like finger print technology or something…
December 16th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
The story is almost a year old, but for some reason it’s back in play.
December 16th, 2005 at 5:57 pm
It looks like AP is trying to stir up more crap … this time with old news.
December 20th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
I wonder whether letting him go really was a mistake, or if someone sympathetic to the insurgency intentionally let him go.