Bin Laden henchman ‘seriously wounded’ (al-Zarqawi)

[Emillereid]

IRAQ’S most wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been seriously wounded, according to a doctor who claims to have treated him last week.
The doctor told an Iraqi reporter in the western city of Ramadi that Zarqawi was bleeding heavily when he was brought into hospital on Wednesday. After treating his wounds the doctor tried to persuade him to remain, but the Jordanian-born terrorist’s minders drove him away.

The claim was supported yesterday by a senior commander in the Iraqi resistance who had been to Ramadi to investigate the report. The doctor, who refused to specify the nature of the wounds and asked not to be identified, was detained by the Americans on Friday for questioning, residents said.

Zarqawi, described as Osama Bin Laden’s “emir” in Iraq, is the Americans’ top target. He has been blamed for countless suicide bombings and for the execution of western hostages, including Ken Bigley, the Liverpool engineer. There is a £13m bounty on his head.

Last week US forces launched an offensive near al-Qaim, more than 100 miles northwest of the city, and claimed to have killed scores of insurgents......

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1613016,00.html

Does this guy have seven lives or what?

[lala_rawraw]

1. Captured 45th version.... what chapter in 1984 are we in?

[physioex]

2. Yaaaaaaawwwnnnnnn............

Moving on to the next story.

[Maple]

3. Hey, he's been killed

a couple of times already, and lost a leg at least once.

Yet he keeps showing up to wreak havoc.

Regained the leg too apparently. :shrug:

[Renew Deal]

6. He's been killed several times

and captured once or twice. I hear has has a third leg, but we won't discuss that hear. :evilgrin:

[still_one]

4. right, another unamed source

what crap. insurgants are attacking everyday, today, Iraqi FM dir.-gen Jassin Mohammed Ghani assassinated outside his Baghdad home in drive-by shooting, and the only victory they can claim is an unamed source

All I know, is we are in the middle of a civil because of the idiot who claims to be president

[norml]

5. Again?

This guy gets wounded more than Wiley Coyote.

[Carolab]

7. Of course. *'s approval rating is at an all time low. n/t

[LTR]

8. THEY KILLED ABU!!!

YOU BASTARD!!!

(Hey, had to throw in a South Park reference there. Lost count of how many times he's been killed or maimed already.)

[PurityOfEssence]

9. The realm converges, yet Moriarty lives...

You'd think soap opera like this would get more play; it's such a sad waste of energy.

[loveable liberal]

10. will turn out to be a guy, who knew a guys cousins sisters...

boyfriend who dropped a rock on his toe once. Where is journalistic integrity? MSM is a bunch of namby-pamby's ....

[spuddonna]

11. I remember reading an article about him in The New Yorker...

This guy has survived a lot of beatings... He apparently was in an Egyptian prison for quite awhile, and torture was a SOP. He's 'hardened' and until he's in custody somewhere, I won't believe he's actually out of commission.

I'm sure glad our Prez and Rummy are on the job! Freedom is on the march! They're following protocols! Can you feel how much safer we are now?!

[okieinpain]

12. but what difference would it make. isn't that one of laden's

trade marks, that the leader trains someone to take over if he's killed.

[rooboy]

13. Henchman my ass. Richard Perle knows Bin Laden better than this guy. n/t

[Roland99]

14. "They killed Kenny! You bastards!"

[ReadTomPaine]

15. Is there really anyone paying attention to this nonsense anymore?

At least produce the body of some hapless Iraqi who fits the general description if you really want anyone to go thru the motions of believing what you say.

Some truly half assed propaganda here, like they have taken on a trainee and are showing him the ropes.

[pinniped]

16. I always love these al-Zarqawi stories. The man who could dematerialize.

--He has been blamed for countless suicide bombings and for the execution of western hostages, including Ken Bigley, the Liverpool engineer.--

He also ran a red light near my house the other day.

[Alpharetta]

17. "a senior commander in the Iraqi resistance "

The claim was supported yesterday by a senior commander in the Iraqi resistance who had been to Ramadi to investigate the report.

Gives this news report all the legitimacy of a National Enquirer story.

[0007]

18. Ah phooey!

Anyone keeping tract of all these bullshit stories?

[ixion]

19. *crosses wrists above head and prays for glorious leader*

We will win this war against Eurasia. And that's doubleplus good!

:sarcasm:

[catnhatnh]

20. Good news!!!

...After his most recent wounding I calculate we are fighting no more than 18.43% of the original Zarquawi...the rest has been blown away. (though I noticed suicide bombings have not dropped by 81.57%, I know the media would never lie to me.)

[wildwww2]

21. Jesus Christ did not come back from the dead like this dude has.

This guy has been captured,dead or cornered more times than a math whiz can count. Isn`t fascism wonderful?
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[MGKrebs]

22. I think that was his fingertip in the chili too.

[LisaL]

23. What, did he lose his other leg?

:eyes:

[reality based]

24. I now disregard any news report that contains a reference

to this guy. He seems to be an urban legend. I wish there was some way to surface this topic in the corporate media, because I think that it would crystallize a lot of unspoken suspicion in the collective unconscious.

[makhno]

25. For those who follow Russian media ...

... the similarity of the propaganda model as it is employed in Chechnya and Iraq is uncanny. The ingredients are virtually identical - an ill-defined, foreign-backed insurgency out of step with local wishes, a mysterious, elusive, badly wounded and yet fearsome leader, regular military operations claiming hundreds of insurgent deaths and a few friendly casualties serving no particular purpose. If the Russian example is any indication, we're in Iraq for a good long ten years of low-intensity warfare at least.

Propagandists must all use the same training manuals.

[atreides1]

26. At Least Zarqawi is leading from the front

If he was wounded that probably means he was near the fighting, leading his troops, which is more then can be said for Bush and his
brave Generals. Who are fighting from the Pentagon, the Green Zone,
CENTCOM HQ, or in the middle of a personal bodyguard of a company
of infantry.

[leesa]

27. Goldstein lives! What crap.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

28. Which leg did he lose this time?

[paulthompson]

29. Whenever another one of these silly Zarqawi stories appear...

People should post a link to this article:

How US Fuelled Myth of Zarqawi the Mastermind

by Adrian Blomfield
The Daily Telegraph
October 4, 2004
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/04/wirq04.xml




Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist leader believed to be responsible for the abduction of Kenneth Bigley, is 'more myth than man', according to American military intelligence agents in Iraq.

Several sources said the importance of Zarqawi, blamed for many of the most spectacular acts of violence in Iraq, has been exaggerated by flawed intelligence and the Bush administration's desire to find "a villain" for the post-invasion mayhem.

US military intelligence agents in Iraq have revealed a series of botched and often tawdry dealings with unreliable sources who, in the words of one source, "told us what we wanted to hear".

"We were basically paying up to $10,000 a time to opportunists, criminals and chancers who passed off fiction and supposition about Zarqawi as cast-iron fact, making him out as the linchpin of just about every attack in Iraq," the agent said. "Back home this stuff was gratefully received and formed the basis of policy decisions. We needed a villain, someone identifiable for the public to latch on to, and we got one."

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It tells you everything you need to know about the lies surrounding him.

[Vogon_Glory]

30. One Less Author Of Misery A Good Thing

If another author of Iraq's continuing misery is being removed from that country, fine. I don't intend to cry many tears for al Zarqawi. He's a murdering hypocrite hiding behind the mask of religion. If he isn't likely to face temporal justice, I hope that he gets the bad karma I think he richly deserves.

As for those authors of Iraq's misery here in the US, I wish my fellow citizens would take back their country and hold those villains to account.