by Gouda » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:05 am
"I'm not dead yet." <br>--Old (but happy) Man, a victim of the plague's corpse collectors<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Our man had Nine Lives, right down to the end...<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>U.S. military: Al-Zarqawi alive when troops arrived</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was alive on a stretcher and tried to move off it when U.S. troops reached the wounded terrorist leader after his safe house had been bombed, a U.S. general said at a news conference Friday.<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>"Zarqawi did survive the airstrike," Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad said. "We did in fact see him alive."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>"There was some kind of movement on the stretcher and he died shortly thereafter," he said.<br><br>Iraqi police had arrived on the scene of Wednesday's bomb attack first and put al-Zarqawi on the stretcher, Caldwell said. The U.S. forces arrived later and identified al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq....<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/09/iraq.al.zarqawi/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/WORL...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>I don't suppose we’ll be seeing the video footage of Zarqawi rolling off the stretcher any time soon - although at this point, they'll probably even give us that to look at. Leaked of course. Maybe he will <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>rise</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> again. This is all striking me as excessively bizarre, and/or absurd. <br><br>***<br><br>Meanwhile, the latest al-Zawahiri tape is aired today (recorded before Zawahiri's death) and he refers to Zawahiri as such: <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>God bless the prophet of Islam in Iraq, the persistent hero of Islam, the Holy Warrior Abu Musab al-Zarqawi</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->," al-Zawahiri said.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/09/zawahiri.ap/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/WORL...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Thus, with Z. being killed on the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>anniversary of Mohammad's death</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, as HMKGrey pointed out, the psyops get heavier... <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gouda@rigorousintuition>Gouda</A> at: 6/9/06 9:10 am<br></i>