#2 al-Qaida leader in Iraq is captured

Abu Humam was arrested today. According to the AP:

He was the second most important al-Qaida in Iraq leader after Abu Ayyub
al-Masri, who took over the group after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by a
U.S. air strike north of Baghdad on June 7, al-Rubaie said.

Big Deal. I predict very little change on the ground. Unlike Bush's flip-flopping, there's a civil war in Iraq and the violence will continue regardless of whether al-Qaida left the country.

posted by Peter