Where's al-Zarqawi?

[moondust]

Haven't heard his name in ages. I thought he was the #1 target in Iraq. Did I miss something?

[dudeness]

1. good question buzzz..

like OBL he will be back when required to raise the terror alerts..

[blitzen]

2. He metamorphosed into al-Sadr n/t

[gandalf]

11. Yes! They seem to have changed the marketing strategy

or they are pursuing two tracks (Sadr and Zarquawi) alternatively and are evaluating the consumer response for each approach. Then they will decide how to procede.

[madrchsod]

3. he`s at an undisclosed bunker somewhere

that someone we all know just built. they are sitting around watching reruns of "combat" and planning the next big thing just before the election..

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. They move to a more convenient target

Mr Sadr. They have plenty of photos of him and he so easy for Mr. US citizen to hate, since he has bad teeth and wears a turban. Keep in mind that prior to this occupation/genocide, the name Sadr never came up as being a "gathering threat".

[moondust]

8. Like Saddam was more convenient than OBL.

The guys Bush* can't get always seem to drop off the end of the earth only to be replaced by somebody more "getable". Funny how that works.

[Nordic]

5. he's a fiction. a composite.

he doesn't actually exist.

This according to Seymour Hersh.

He said this at a dinner for the ACLU in San Francisco in July.

I'm trying to find a link or a transcript.

[gandalf]

13. Isn't that the case with Zarquawi, OBL, KSM, G.W. Bush and the like?

In all these cases, real world persons and images conveyed to us by the media are probably very different.

[daleo]

6. He is scheduled for next weeks "two minutes of hate"

Until then we will have to make due with Sadr.

[JSJ]

7. he's been reported dead as often...

...as Bush has claimed his involvement in Iraq. Who you gonna believe?

[Disturbed]

9. On vacation.

He is taking some time off while al Sadr is in the "Surviver" spotlight this month.

[lottie244]

10. He's on a Swift boat. They ran the gammut with him. He is of no use to

them now. They found that they can get more political mileage out of swift boat attacks on Kerry but this is backfiring big time!

[leesa]

12. Must be dead again.

[radwriter0555]

14. One leg, or two? And are we back to pirate with only one eye as well?

The man's regenerating properties are indeed miraculous!!!!

He's like a gecko!!!

[Tim4319]

15. He's helping Bin Laden with his dialysis machine.