Zarqawi captured?

Purportedly by US and Iraqi police, as reported by Al-Jazeera. Not sure how substantial this is.

Reports in Kuwait on Friday said a man assumed to be Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi has been captured near the Syrian border. The report claimed that the man was captured during a joint operation by U.S. occupation forces and Iraqi police, Al Siyasah newspaper, quoting Iraqi sources, said Friday.

If true, good news heading into the weekend! Let the conspiracy theories fly, I've got my tin foil hat ready!

Glenn Reynolds thinks that it was nice of the Republicans to wait until Kerry was done with his speech.

Feste points us to sources that deny the arrest. These source may be "unreliable".

UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds (tipped by reader, Michele Catalano) notes that "AlJazeera.com is not connected with the Al Jazeera TV network, and that it's quite unreliable. Given that we haven't heard more about this, I'm pretty sure it's bogus." Too bad.