Catch and Release: Iraq edition

[shecky]

Al-Zarqawi caught, released

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi security forces caught the most wanted man in the country last year, but released him because they didn't know who he was, the Iraqi deputy minister of interior said Thursday.

Hussain Kamal confirmed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- the al Qaeda in Iraq leader who has a $25 million bounty on his head -- was in custody at some point last year, but he wouldn't provide further details.

A U.S. official couldn't confirm the report, but said he wouldn't dismiss it.

"It is plausible," he said.

Maybe the name on his driver's license said Michael Goldberg?

 

[Melendwyr]

You're doing a hell of a job, Iraqi.

 

[Grammatron]

That's quite unfortunate.

 

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Iraqi security forces caught the most wanted man in the country last year, but released him because they didn't know who he was, the Iraqi deputy minister of interior said Thursday.

Now, see, this is where the Iraq government is clearly inferior to the U.S. government. If U.S. security forces had captured a wanted man but then accidentally released him because they didn't know who he was, no U.S. government official would make the mistake of admitting it!

 

[Melendwyr]

Now, see, this is where the Iraq government is clearly inferior to the U.S. government. If U.S. security forces had captured a wanted man but then accidentally released him because they didn't know who he was, no U.S. government official would make the mistake of admitting it!

The U.S. government would never release a prisoner just because they didn't know who he was or what he was accused of doing. If we'd been in charge, this guy would've been on his way to the secret CIA torture chambers with all of the other random joes we picked up off the streets.