Ok, it's been said before, but I'll say it again: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, the group formerly known as Tawhid and Jihad, former member of Ansar al-Islam, the man who personally beheaded innocent civilians, and mass murdering terrorist in Iraq is dead.
Let's hope this one is for real. If it is, it is a confirmation of earlier report we made last Friday of Zarqawi's demise. Infrequent Jawa contributor Editor (update: who tells me that he got the link from The Junkyard Blog) drops this link into the comments section:
The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah's cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to protect the insurgency leader's tomb from a group of American soldiers patrolling the area.
During a telephone conversation from the city of Fallujah with the Saudi newspaper, Nasir said al-Zarqawi was taken there after being injured in the city of Ramadi around three weeks ago, and may have been treated by two doctors who had worked with his aides in Baghdad. He said the two doctors had stopped a serious haemorrhage in al-Zarqawi's intestines, but that after his condition worsened last week, the militant died on Friday.
Nasir adds that in his will the insurgent leader left the order that no funeral should be held for him and the right to announce his death should be left to the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.
The Al-Medina newspaper reports that it also called the headmaster of a school in Fallujah, who preferred to remain anonymous, but confirmed that many people in the city were aware of the fact that al-Zarqawi had recently been taken to the city.
Sheikh Nasir's claims appear to correspond with reports several weeks ago that al-Zarqawi had been injured and taken to Ramadi hospital for emergency treatment, and with messages on the Internet talking of two Arab doctors accompanying him. Al-Zarqawi was reported to have been seen at the hospital on April 27. The hospital's director told an Iraq-based newspaper that US troops later surrounded and raided the entire building, searching for the Jordanian militant.
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Sigh. Why can't we hear the same news about the Dem leadership.
Posted by: Filthy Allah at June 02, 2005 03:11 PM (yBHNA)
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I think he is trying to create a mystique of being a survivor
Posted by: jwbrown1969 at June 02, 2005 03:15 PM (YLesG)
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Possibly. Then again, maybe he's just DEAD!!
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at June 02, 2005 03:16 PM (JQjhA)
Posted by: Editor at June 02, 2005 03:23 PM (adpJH)
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Did you, like, lose my e-mail address or what??
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at June 02, 2005 03:24 PM (JQjhA)
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Let's see his head on a pike. With a DNA test thrown in.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at June 02, 2005 03:26 PM (x+5JB)
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It doesn't matter if he's dead or alive or if he ever even existed. Jihad will continue until the infidels leave the land of Muhammad.
The war on terror could easily be won- pull US troops out of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. How is that defending our borders anyhow??
Posted by: Abu-Whoevers-Next at June 02, 2005 03:28 PM (h0FT+)
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Er, I'm not sure I follow your logic, but I do agree that one man is not important in the overall scheme of things. However, it is a psychological victory.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at June 02, 2005 03:30 PM (JQjhA)
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Gawd - email is, like, so inconvenient. Don't you, like, have mobile instant messaging? Gosh.
Posted by: Editor at June 02, 2005 03:37 PM (adpJH)
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Perhaps Zarqawis existence is the key to the mysteries of the universe and the galaxy itself has effected the fertility of Iraqs women to produce 50 people who look like Zarqawi when they grow up every year, so the real Zarqawi can be used to find a way to stop the Big Crunch from squeezing all of space into a Big Bang-bomb.
(gotta go farfetched to avoid comment wars, that I can't stay here to fight all night)
Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 04:08 PM (lGolT)
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with his death, it is a small victory for the coalition troops and for the Iraqi people who want the terrorists out of their country...his closest people will probally keep his death a secret to both keep us guessing if he is dead or alive and to keep up the morale of the other terrorists...of course they will keep up their attacks but they will not have his inteligence and drive to keep them going....the man is/was evil but he seemed/seems to have lots of charisma...seems evil people have that for some strange reason, guess its to make up for their total lack of morals and any concern for their followers
Posted by: THANOS35 at June 02, 2005 04:21 PM (n1vGV)
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As I've noted in my own post: Gutshot. Excellent.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at June 02, 2005 05:15 PM (RHG+K)
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And for Abu Whatsyerface: I count the war on terror as being won now that the battlefield is in the Middle East instead of Manhattan. Tell all your subhuman friends to come there and meet Allah.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at June 02, 2005 05:17 PM (RHG+K)
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Abu-Idiot: Your site is just more of the same. Yawn.
"We then analyze the news to emphasize underreported or missing angles in the coverage."
Somewhat selective in your analyzing, heh? Couldn't think of anything original?
Posted by: Oyster at June 02, 2005 05:29 PM (YudAC)
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Jihad will continue until the infidels leave the land of Muhammad.
Who said this land belongs to Muhammed?...I don't see him around defending it with his divine intervention. Muhammad is just another Al-Zarqawi from another time. The whole Islamic faith is built around oppression and terrorism. They can all go to hell with their 20 virgins each.
Posted by: Bazza at June 02, 2005 08:27 PM (QKZX5)
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Considering the way rumors fly in the Arab world, and their propensity to lie, he may be in perfect health, or perfectly dead, or somewhere in between. Personally I hope he's alive, because I want to see a video of his mangled corpse dragged out in the street and displayed like a trophy by some kickass Marines.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 03, 2005 01:22 AM (0yYS2)
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I M
AGREED a SLOW TORTURE EVERY DAY UNTIL HE CAN TAKE NO MORE THEN
START AGAIN WOULD BE APPROPRIATE THEN LEFT TO DIE LIKE A FIEND
ON THE STREET SO THE ANIMALS CAN FEED OFF HIM. THAT WAY AT LEAST
HIS LIFE WOULD HAVE SERVED SOME PURPOSE
Posted by: sparky at June 03, 2005 07:32 AM (F1nba)
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Just toss him in a pig stye.
Posted by: Oyster at June 03, 2005 07:50 AM (YudAC)
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Whoa, Sparky, good attitude, but easy on the caplock, and the caffeine.
Oyster, I like your plan too. If fact, we should build a giant pig pen at Gitmo, and let the scumbag terrorists live there, and have live, 24 hour webcam coverage so that their fellow muslims can see what is waiting for them. The jihad would die out immediately.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 03, 2005 10:54 AM (0yYS2)
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Ooops I thought you wouldnt notice anyway, not enough caffine maybe
Posted by: sparky at June 03, 2005 11:11 AM (F1nba)
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