OMG! We caught the leader of not quite 2% of the insurgents in Iraq! This will be a major blow to the terrorists! Just like the last seven or eight times we catch this “guy in charge” who just disappear until we catch the next guy.

Seems to me that nothing ever really changes when this happens. We catch a dude, another dude takes iver and America Service Folks get shot at and exploded and innocent Iraqis get shot at and exploded, anon, anon.

According to Reuters:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces have detained a man suspected of being the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping in a house in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said on Friday.

The U.S. military in Baghdad said it was checking the reports that Abu Ayyab al-Masri, an Egyptian also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, had been detained.

If confirmed, the arrest would be another blow for Sunni Islamist al Qaeda in Iraq, which has reeled under a wave of U.S. military operations in the past year and been forced to regroup in northern Iraq.

An Interior Ministry spokesman said an associate of Masri detained in an earlier operation took security forces late on Wednesday to where the al Qaeda leader was hiding.

So … there’s that, I guess.