From: "Geo" 

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:448a8bbc$2{at}w3.nls.net...

> What is this - someone trying to insert "balance" into the
story.  Yes -
> but?  My money is on not - too many will have packed suitcases.  I expect
to
> see dumped insurgent weapons in the next few days.  Shame that DNA
> technology is now so good.

>>The information gained from the safe house where Zarqawi was staying at
the time of his death, and from 17 other homes of suspected al-Qa'eda
sympathisers raided in the hours after his death has been described by the
Americans as "treasure".
A subsequent 39 raids resulted in the seizure of computer memory sticks and
hard drives, as well as an as-yet unspecified number of arrests. "On a
scale of one to 10 the intelligence gathered was about an eight," a US
official said.<<

Maybe, but in a country the size of Iraq, 50 raids seems like peanuts.

Geo.

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