The U.S. military on Friday denied Iraqi government claims that the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was captured and said a man with a similar name had been arrested in the northern city of Mosul.
Google Sees YouTube Products Soon, Warm On Yahoo
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Google execs hope for long-term ad deal with Yahoo - The Associated Press
ap.google.comFound 6 days, 12 hours, 1 minute, and 8 seconds agoPhysOrg.com Google execs hope for long-term ad deal with Yahoo The Associated Press - 4 hours ago MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with ...
AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ LEADER ARRESTED ...Update: Maybe Not
gatewaypundit.blogspot.comFound 6 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes, and 44 seconds agoHe's been in Iraq since the fall of the Taliban but this week he was finally nabbed. ** Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri is captured! CNN has video of this news and previous footage of Al-Masri: ...
U.S. Military: Al Qaeda Leader in Iraq Has Not Been Captured
foxnews.comFound 6 days, 16 hours, 39 minutes, and 28 seconds agoThe U.S. military denied Friday that the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, had been captured and saying a man with a similar name had instead been arrested in the northern city of Mosul.
US military denies al Qaeda leader al Masri is in custody
longwarjournal.orgFound 6 days, 11 hours, 31 minutes, and 10 seconds agoUS military denies al Qaeda leader al Masri is in custody
Al Qaeda in Iraq leader not captured
cnn.comFound 6 days, 3 hours, 5 minutes, and 2 seconds agoAbu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, has not been captured, a senior U.S. military official told CNN on Friday.
Gaza mortar attack kills Israeli
news.bbc.co.ukFound 6 days, 12 hours, 48 minutes, and 59 seconds agoIsraeli air strikes kill five Hamas members after a mortar attack from the Gaza Strip kills an Israeli civilian.
Google sees YouTube products soon
reuters.comFound 6 days, 15 hours, 3 minutes, and 53 seconds agoMOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc expects to launch new products for its YouTube Web video service in the next few months and sees reason for closer cooperation with Yahoo Inc, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Thursday. Schmidt has said getting the video sharing site to make ...
Google execs hope for long-term ad deal with Yahoo
news.yahoo.comFound 6 days, 16 hours, 30 minutes, and 6 seconds agoGoogle Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. - a deal that would lower the odds of Microsoft Corp. renewing its attempts to buy Yahoo.
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Allahpundit said he remained skeptical, and for good reason -- the Iraqis let their enthusiasm outstrip reality again. […] Read the rest »
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The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was captured early Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said.
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news.bbc.co.uk
Google expresses interest in extending an advertising partnership with fellow search engine Yahoo.
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latimesblogs.latimes.com
No, not the one detained Thursday near the northern city of Mosul who convinced Iraqi officials that Abu Hamza al-Muhajir is his name. The Defense Ministry spokesman, Mohammed Askari, was convinced enough that he announced al-Muhajir's arrest and said he had been assured by security officials in the ...
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timesonline.co.uk
A rocket crashed through the roof of the BBC's bureau in Baghdad today causing structural damage but no injuries.It was one of a number of rockets fired towards the heavily fortified Green Zone by Shia insurgents taking advantage of
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mashable.com
Unsurprisingly, although the elephant from Redmond is out of the room , Google would still like to nab that advertising deal with Yahoo. According to BBC, comments that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and chief exec Eric Schmidt made before Google's annual general meeting on Thursday make this quite clear.
" We have been talking to Yahoo and we are very excited to be working with them. We share a lot of values with them, " said Brin. Schmidt pointed out that the two week trial with Yahoo had been a success, saying that it's a " good basis to talk to Yahoo some more "
Now, imagine that the Microsoft thing had never happened:
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digbysblog.blogspot.com
See, we've been laying siege to Sadr City for the last month, first building walls so the population can't leave and then bombing the hell out of it, forcing a crisis where the population must leave.
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themoderatevoice.com
U.S. military officials are now saying that yesterday's reports of the capture of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, were somewhat premature.
U.S. military officials were surprised about the report of Abu Ayyub al-Masri's capture -- first reported by Iraqi media and picked up by The Associated Press. And intelligence officials said they were skeptical, even though Iraqi officials said al-Masri was already in U.S. military custody.
Al-Masri ("the Egyptian"), also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, took the reins of the Iraqi al Qaeda offshoot in June 2006 after a U.
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strata-sphere.com
al-Qaeda's forces in Iraq have been spending the last year, since President George Bush decided to implement General David Petraeus' counter insurgency strategy that had by this time last year turned the Sunni Province of Anbar, the center of al-Qaeda's operations in Iraq at the time, into a model of an al-Qaeda free Iraq.
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jihadwatch.org
Sorry about that, Chief
This is nothing. Last year around this time he was killed but not killed .
"Iraq al-Qaeda chief not captured," from the BBC , May 9 (thanks to larwyn):
The United States military in Iraq says a man detained in the northern city of Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
An earlier statement from the Iraqi defence ministry said that al-Masri had been captured.
But an American military spokeswoman, Peggy Kageleiry, said Abu Ayyub al-Masri had not been arrested.
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poliblogger.com
The other day it was reported that the Iraqis had captured the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. I didn't have time to blog it at the time and, to be honest, I wasn't convinced that they had the guy.
Well, my skepticism was warranted (via the BBC): Iraq al-Qaeda chief not captured
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faustasblog.com
The London Times had reported that Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri captured Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the nom de guerre of Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was captured in a joint US-Iraqi operation, according to Iraqi military sources quoted by the Arabic news channel al-Arabiya. Belmont Club : Because of his broad involvement in al-Qaeda's international operations, al-Masri's capture would be a setback for al-Qaeda not only in Iraq, but to its overall organization. However, the BBC reports that Iraq al-Qaeda chief not captured The United States military in Iraq says a man detained in the northern city of Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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prairiepundit.blogspot.com
The UK Times report on the capture is here .
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bootsandsabers.com
Iraqi Defense Ministry Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the arrest of Abu Ayyub al-Masri -- also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir -- was reported by the Iraqi commander in Mosul, where insurgents have sought to establish a foothold after being widely uprooted from Baghdad and surrounding areas last year.
The U.S. military in Baghdad said it was "checking with Iraqi authorities to confirm the accuracy of this information."
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said the arrest occurred "at midnight and during the primary investigations he admitted that he is Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir.
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rumorofwar.blogspot.com
DARN, according to news reports out of Iraq , a United States military official denied claims that Iraqi security forces arrested Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri in Mosul. Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, a U.S. military spokeswoman in northern Iraq. Major Kageleriy indicated that a man with a similar name was arrested in the northern city of Mosul. Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the confusion arose because the commander of Iraqi forces in northern Ninevah province was convinced that he had arrested al-Masri - also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.
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thisainthell.us
In headier and news-starved times, everyone convinced themselves that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq had been captured, but US officials in Iraq deny that it's true ( Fox News/Associated Press link);
The U.S. military denied Friday that the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq - Abu Ayyub al-Masri - had been captured, saying instead that a man with a similar name was arrested in the northern city of Mosul.
Iraqi authorities on Thursday said Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul.
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bluegrassredstate.com
Looks like it probably wasn't him.
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scottallan.com
Leave it to CNN to screw up this story. They were my original source and now they are backtracking saying al-Masri has not been captured.
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theimpolitic.blogspot.com
The big buzz yesterday was Iraq's announcement of the alleged capture of the AQI's number one man. The Pentagon responds with WTF ?
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officeoftheindependentblogger.com
Guess we didn't capture the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. We captured the name of a person who has the name as the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. In Iraq. How embarrassing for the Iraqi government.
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rising-hegemon.blogspot.com
Yesterday afternoon:
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247wallst.com
The time has come, late. But, the time has come. Google (GOOG) says that its No.1 revenue priority for the year it to make money from it monster-truck video sharing site, YouTube.
According to Reuters, the company's management admitted at its annual meeting that the road to profit for YouTube would be a long one with 2008 as a modest beginning. Senior executives also said there would be a lengthly wait until DoubleClick, the display ad serving business Google bought, would be a meaningful piece of annual sales.
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bloggingstocks.com
One of the messages out of the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) shareholder meeting was that management plans to make more money on huge video-sharing site YouTube. Without going into detail, the search company said it would bring out sets of software tools which would make it easier for marketers to use the site more effectively.
According to Reuters, Eric Schmidt, the company's CEO "said getting the video sharing site to make money is the Web search company's top priority for the year." It is a nice promise, but it is hard to see how it will work.
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weeklystandard.com
As noted last night, reports of the capture of al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al Masri must be tempered with healthy a dose of caution until the U.S. military can confirmed the news. This morning, the U.S. spokeswoman in northern Iraq said al Masri was not in the U.S. militaryâs custody , nor has he been detained by Iraqi troops.
It certainly was tempting to believe al Masri was captured. The location of his reported capture fit the storyline from Iraq over the past several months. Fourteen of the 30 senior-most al Qaeda leaders that have been killed or captured over the past three months were killed or captured in Mosul.
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Rocket hits BBC bureau in Baghdad
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d-day.blogspot.com
See, we've been laying siege to Sadr City for the last month, first building walls so the population can't leave and then bombing the hell out of it, forcing a crisis where the population must leave.
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abumuqawama.blogspot.com
Oops they did it again. CNN is now reporting that the guy the ISF captured is not al-Masri . This follows a pattern. Since al-Masri took over AQI in 2006, "Iraqi officials have reported his death three times, his capture twice and a mortal wounding once." As Kilo says in the comments, "He's the fkn roadrunner apparently."
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idrunk.com
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wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com
Despite what the Iraq's Defense Ministry spokesman said, US officials say it is not Abu Ayyab al-Masri .
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thylmann.net
Yahoo shares are hovering around $25 because investors hope major Yahoo shareholders can still force a deal with Microsoft at $33 per share or more. But at Google's annual shareholder meeting yesterday , cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt tried their best to destroy those hopes, amping up talk of a deal that would outsource Yahoo's search advertising to Google and make Yahoo unattractive to Microsoft. Brin said the deal is designed to keep Microsoft at bay. "[Yahoo was] under a hostile attack and we wanted to make sure they had as many options as possible," Brin said.
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