TagsTagsI feel duty-bound to cover these audiotapes from Osama bin Hidin’ even though they’re mind-numbingly repetitive. Let’s face it, the global jihad only has one or two main riffs, three at the most. Their propaganda is like listening to the neighbor’s untalented kid practicing blues licks on a Taiwanese guitar. Anyway, ...
In his audiotaped eulogy to mass murderer Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, mass murderer Osama bin Laden actually makes a good point. Bin Laden called on U.S. forces to release the body of Jordanian-born Zarqawi, adding: “What scares you about Zarqawi after his death is that (his funeral) will be huge and will ...
MEMRI TV gathers video clips of Jordanian Islamists, members of Parliament and jihadist groups reacting to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, broadcast on most of the major Arab satellite networks including Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. [Video] Reporter: You pronounced Al-Zarqawi a martyr and a mujahid, but left the victims of ...
Michael Ledeen thinks the “planning document” discovered after the bombing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is Iranian disinformation, designed to make us believe Iran is being framed by Sunni insurgents: Nonsense.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s planning document, discovered in the safe house (oxymoron of the day) where he died: Text of al-Zarqawi Safe-House Document. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) His first recommendation to deal with the increased success of coalition forces: use the media. 1. To improve the image of the resistance in society, increase ...
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s autopsy results are in, and he lived for 52 minutes after the bombing, undoubtedly in great pain due to massive internal injuries. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes after a U.S. warplane bombed his hideout northeast of Baghdad, and he died of extensive internal ...
TIME Magazine tosses it off as if it were insignificant, in the midst of a lengthy article about the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but one of the people killed when the US Air Force made a special delivery to a house in Baqubah, Iraq (hat tip: distwalker), was Zarqawi’s ...
A Jewish student foolishly hanging around the Palestinian town of Nablus was briefly kidnapped by Palestinian “activists” today, but when the kidnappers realized he was an American they dropped him like a hot potato: Palestinians hand over kidnapped American citizen to IDF. (Hat tip: Writer Mom.) Members of an armed Fatah ...
(From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, of course.)
The Associated Press will report absolutely anything that makes America look bad, even the unsubstantiated accusations of an unidentified person who supposedly lived in the area where Zarqawi was hiding: Iraqi claims U.S. GIs beat wounded man. BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on ...
More details about the last moments of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: A dying al-Zarqawi tried to get away. “The last moments of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.” Sorry if it offends anyone, but I do enjoy writing that. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could barely speak, but he struggled and tried to get away ...
ABC News blog The Blotter is pretty bold for the mainstream media; they’re apparently using Movable Type with open comments. And they’re getting slammed by their own readers for a story about the informant (a captured terrorist) who dropped the dime on Zarqawi: Captured Zarqawi Aide Spilled the Beans.
Iowahawk has a world exclusive, possibly the final communiqué from the former senior VP of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who’s finding martyrdom to be a bit different from what he expected: Paradise Is Overrated. Okay, Thursday morning. I clock in at the office, pour a mug of tea, fire up the ...
In a case of poetic justice, Zarqawi remained alive long enough to know that we got him: Zarqawi lived briefly after attack. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortally wounded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still alive and mumbling after American airstrikes on his hideout and tried to get off a stretcher when he ...
At the Counterterrorism Blog: Jordan arrests Zarqawi’s brother-in-law and an Al Jazeera journalist live! A few hours ago, while an Al Jazeera journalist was interviewing Abu Kadama, Zarqawi’s brother-in-law in Zarqa, Jordan, the broadcast was suddenly interrupted, most probably by Jordan. Because when the journalist came back on the air, he ...
As an Al Qaeda martyr, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is entitled to 72 virgins in Heaven, the same 72 for all eternity, miraculously re-virginized at the beginning of each day, forever and ever: Zarqawi Dead; Most Beautiful of His 72 Virgins Light Candles, Put on KennyG Album. UPDATE at 6/8/06 8:28:09 pm: I ...
Al-Reuters has a standard template for good news in the war on Islamic terrorism—locate and promote the angle that makes a victory look like a defeat. This example of the template has the classic headline: Zarqawi found, BUT bin Laden still eludes US. The article ends with a quote from George ...
Palestinians demonstrate in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip late Thursday, June 8, 2006 to protest a US air raid in which Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, was killed. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) Such lovely people. Let’s ...
A great piece on why Zarqawi’s death matters, by Christopher Hitchens, concluding with this astute observation: If we had withdrawn from Iraq already, as the “peace” movement has been demanding, then one of the most revolting criminals of all time would have been able to claim that he forced us to ...
It’s always a hoot to watch the “reality-based community” thrashing around after an important victory such as the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Before they get their talking points lined up, they babble uncontrollably like hyperactive foul-mouthed children with glossolalia. Dr. Sanity has a round-up of the reactions from the ...
A reader emailed this CENTCOM aerial video of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s final moments: [Video]
Al-Reuters immediately starts pushing the usual “it will only create more terrorists” canard: Zarqawi leaves gap but insurgency will outlive him. BERLIN, June 8 (Reuters) - The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi removes the man who took Iraq’s insurgency to new heights of savagery but it also creates a martyr whose ...
The father of Nick Berg is a tool of MoveOn.org and International ANSWER, and he responds in predictable moonbat fashion to the death of the man who decapitated his son: Father of Zarqawi victim draws no comfort from his death. NEW YORK (AFP) - The father of Nick Berg, a US ...
Very good news to start the day: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in air raid. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of beheadings and suicide bombings, was killed when U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs on his isolated safehouse, ...
The New York Times leaps to defend the dignity and praise the terrorist abilities of Al Qaeda head-chopper Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Not All See Video Mockery of Zarqawi as Good Strategy. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.) An effort by the American military to discredit the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by showing ...