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From NewsMax:
BAGHDAD, Iraq – An al-Qaida lieutenant in custody in Iraq has confessed to masterminding most of the car bombings in Baghdad, including the bloody 2003 assault on the U.N. headquarters in the capital, authorities said Monday.
Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, “confessed to building approximately 75 percent of the car bombs used in attacks in Baghdad” since the Iraq war began, according to the interim Iraqi prime minister’s spokesman, Thaer al-Naqib.
A government statement said Al-Jaaf was taken into custody Jan. 15 and was responsible for 32 car bombings, including the bombing of the U.N. headquarters that killed the top U.N. envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and 21 other people.
Circumstantial evidence appearing to confirm this comes from ABC News:
JENNINGS: The level of violence is down in the last several days. Many explosive devices this month are less sophisticated than they’ve been in the past. They hope the U.S. is putting some of the better bomb makers out of business. Americans are ready targets in many places but there is no apparent antagonism here.
And even ABC News is reporting evidence that mainstream media has hidden good news regarding Iraq from the public:
JENNINGS: The U.S. is spending millions of dollars here on sewer pipes, sewage treatment, available clean water. How does the U.S. get credit for this? Every U.S. officer encountered today said the media has missed or underreported this part of the U.S. mission. We have surveyed 1,300 Iraqis in 40 different towns and cities. One thing comes through very clearly. It is a measure of their hope about the future. Yes, they feel unsafe, but they do go on to say that they believe the election will mean a positive change.
