Zarqawi dead - confirmed

[Gouda]

He's not looking too bad there, considering that two 500 lbs. bombs were dropped by F16's on the house where he was hiding:<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.al.zarqawi/t1.zarqawi.face.pool.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Framed picture, even. Nice touch. Just missing the flower arrangements. <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

The shadowy Zarqawi:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.theweekmagazine.com/article.aspx?id=755">www.theweekmagazine.com/a...spx?id=755</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

Rolling Stone -- Letting Zarqawi Run To Fight Another Day:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/nataffdaily/story/9777402/zarqawis_reprieve_revisited">www.rollingstone.com/poli..._revisited</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

Pepe Escobar - Zarqawi: Bush's Man For All Seasons<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FJ15Ak02.html">www.atimes.com/atimes/Mid...5Ak02.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

Juan Cole - Zawahiri Letter to Zarqawi: A Shiite Forgery? :<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.juancole.com/2005/10/zawahiri-letter-to-zarqawi-shiite.html">www.juancole.com/2005/10/...hiite.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Scott Ritter - The Risks of the Zarqawi Myth:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9FA18AFB-F2C9-4678-8E6A-3595D91B83A1.htm">english.aljazeera.net/NR/...1B83A1.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>UPI - If You Build Zarqawi, They Will Come:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:2QuiYcfLZV0J:www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php%3FStoryID%3D20051110-014753-2561r+Claim:+U.S.+Created+al-Zarqawi+Myth&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1">72.14.203.104/search?q=ca...=clnk&cd=1</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>3/4/04 - MSNBC - Iraqi Militants Claim Zarqawi is Dead:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084/">www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.brushtail.com.au/assets/july_04_on/zarqawi_bush.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://ia310113.us.archive.org/1/items/Zarqawi_Jumps_the_Shark_II__final/zarqawi_jumps_the_shark.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

OBL's best buddy - Zarqawi Character to Be Retired From Soap Opera:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4872236.stm">news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middl...872236.stm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

Zarqawi Myth Needs Some Heavy Duty Propping:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm41.showMessage?topicID=113.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...=113.topic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

US PSYOP leaflet disseminated in Iraq:<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/7b/Your_future_al-Zarqawi.jpg"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>Explanatory link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Your ... arqawi.jpg <p></p><i></i>

[yathrib]

HMKGrey, you write:<br><br>"Yeah, because if someone dropped two 500lb bombs on my house, I'm sure there would be a whole lot of me left to identify through finger prints and scars. Oh, and I'd probably take a pretty picture too."<br><br>Indeed. If this is legit, being blown up by 500 lb. bombs might be like the poor man's makeover. LOL!<br> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

Cannonfire - Why Zarqawi-gate is more important than you think:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/zarqawi-gate-more-important-than-you.html">cannonfire.blogspot.com/2...n-you.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=stickdog99>stickdog99</A> at: 6/8/06 1:47 pm<br></i>

[stickdog99]

Kurt Nimmo -- Dead Again:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m23811&l=i&size=1&hd=0">www.uruknet.info/?p=m2381...ize=1&hd=0</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Reuters obituary:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/June/focusoniraq_June52.xml§ion=focusoniraq">www.khaleejtimes.com/Disp...ocusoniraq</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Zarqawi more powerful as a myth than as a man<br><br>Feeding the myth<br><br>US forces also sometimes found it convenient to feed the Zarqawi myth. Most experts believe his foreign fighters make up only a fraction of the insurgency, but the US military portrayed Zarqawi as its most dangerous foe in Iraq. The $25 million price put on his head matched the bounty on bin Laden.<br><br>The Washington Post reported this year that internal military documents showed the US military mounted a psyops (psychological operations) campaign to magnify the role of Zarqawi in the insurgency. “Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will, made him more important than he really is,” military intelligence officer Colonel Derek Harvey was quoted as saying.<br><br>As a foreign militant whose attacks killed far more Iraqi civilians than foreign troops, Zarqawi was despised even by many Iraqi insurgents fighting US forces, and at times the hatred spiralled into fierce battles between insurgent groups.<br><br>However, while the US military focused on Zarqawi’s role in an effort to turn Iraqis against the insurgency, it also tried to puncture the legend of a fearless guerrilla leader. US officers say they came closest to capturing Zarqawi in February 2005, when his car nearly ran into an American roadblock in western Iraq, heartland of the insurgency. They say Zarqawi escaped by leaping from the vehicle but his laptop computer and two of his aides were seized. The military quoted one of those aides as saying Zarqawi ”became hysterical” when he feared he would be captured.<br><br>Last month the military released captured footage of Zarqawi -- out-takes from a propaganda video -- showing the Al Qaeda leader having problems firing a machinegun, and one of his aides grabbing a hot gun barrel and recoiling in pain. US forces even mocked the fact that Zarqawi was wearing sneakers made by American brand New Balance.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[stickdog99]

Nick Berg's father's take:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cushingdaily.com/news/feeds/apcontent/apstories/apstorysection/D8I46I4G0.xml.txt/resources_apstoryview">www.cushingdaily.com/news...pstoryview</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"First of all, I'm not even certain that al-Zarqawi even killed my son," said Michael Berg, who doesn't believe the videotape of his son's execution or what he's been told by the FBI any more than he believes conspiracy theories suggesting his son was killed by the U.S. government.<br><br>"I think the news of the loss of any human being is a tragedy. I think al-Zarqawi's death is a double tragedy," he said. "His death will incite a new wave of revenge. George Bush and al-Zarqawi are two men who believe in revenge."<br><br>Berg said the blame for most deaths in Iraq should be placed on President Bush's shoulders.<br><br>"George Bush is more of a terrorist than Zarqawi is," Berg said. "Zarqawi is attributed to the deaths of a couple hundred people, including my son. George Bush is responsible for 150,000 deaths and another one every 12 minutes."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i></i>

[dranek7]

Uh-oh! The total number of US dead is gonna be 2500 any <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://icasualties.org/oif/">day now</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->! Well shit, we'd better smoke'im out to lessen the impact of our silver centesimal fatallty. <p></p><i></i>

[Byrne]

I just noticed this...<br><br>From <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1149768894.html" target="top">www.medialens.org/board/</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Burying embarrassing news, the Zarqawi way?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Posted by Ron F on June 8, 2006, 1:14 pm<br>User logged in as: RonF<br><br>There should be mass celebration today in Iraq, and in the press, and by mongers everywhere, for today was the day that Iraq's new Prime Minister Nouri Maliki finally filled the three vacant ministerial posts in his new, and now complete, government. Democracy! Rejoice!<br>By sheer coincidence this heartening story has been blasted off the front page by the announcement, on the same day, of the killing of the terrorist Zarqawi, which took place yesterday.<br><br>Then again, looking at the newly appointed ministers, perhaps it wasn't so unfortunate:<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5058582.stm" target="top">Defence Minister</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>Abdul Qadir Obeidi - one of Saddam Hussein's generals<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/05/1c7f479e-db26-4e6f-8f94-6e5e5e80b663.html" target="top">Interior Minister</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>Jawad al-Bulani, an aide to the Governing Council from the Iraqi Hizbollah party<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060604/afp/060604081144top.html" target="top">National Security Minister</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>Shirwan Waili - a former military officer under Saddam Hussein <br> <br><br> <p></p><i></i>