This will by my happiest first ever if it's true and I'm first.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Ding, dong, the @#$%^&** is dead! I know, the 72-hour rule applies, but I'm hoping for confirmation sooner than that.

Will the eulogy be given by George Galloway?

Will the Dems insist this means we must pull out sooner?

If true, it looks like LGF got it before Fox News. Congrats!

This could be a tipping point.

Let's wait to cheer. These reports usually turn out to be untrue. But if it is...... Yippee!

I for one, am going to think happy thoughts until evidence indicates otherwise.

Hopefully, it's the end of his murdering trail.

YES! I hope it's true.

If so, poor Kurt vonnegut. He will be broken hearted, no doubt. *sniff*

I am SO hoping! Thank you for making my day!

Enjoy the 72 raisins in the inferno!

Lets see the body and then .. finish the job!

cn

Please let this be true!

Anyway, Zarqawi is toast. I don't see how he could survive from the backlash after his Jordan "mistake".
Al-Zarqawi's Jordan family renounces him

The only way to lose this war is to take the U.S. military out of the equation. We have the most professional, disciplined, and motivated military in world history. Let them do their job the way they do it.

He got surrounded, went boom. Oh I do sooooo hope.

JWM

I think they're still looking for his head.

BWT, is it just me, or did Zarqawi always look a little like Fredo Corleone?

This may turn out to be the best sunday since that sunday the caught Sadam

Why isn't this on OSM.org yet?

New Iraqi National Holiday?

Oh please let this one be true!

This is as good as news as Bin Ladin gettin it.......PLEASE be true!

I hope to God that this is true. That will make this the best Thanksgiving ever!
I will drink a toast to that murderous barbarian burning in hell for all eternity! And another toast (or two or three) to our wonderful soldiers who are kicking ass over in Iraq and Afghanistan!

According to the story, he killed himself or was killed by his about-to-become suicide bomber buddies? Am I understanding this correctly? I want to see his head.

It's Bush's fault. Wait, I mean, he had nothing to do with it.

48 HOUR RULE MY FRIENDS

Or is it the 24 hour rule? whatever.

pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasebetrue

Wrap the head in pigskin and put it om a pike at the Syrian border would be my vote.

One can only hope. I wonder if there is a connection between the reported death and the denouncement by his family. If they knew that he was already dead then they had little to fear from issuing the "fatwah" against him. He was not the type to let family ties hinder his murderous designs. I'll hold the happiness til his remains are positively identified.
Mike

Tragic news for Colonel Michael Moore and his merry minutemen if true.

Those who live by the bomb, die by the bomb.

This always brings a smile to my face!

I think the military will wait till they actually have his pea sized nuts in a jar before they confirm his demise......

tats

This is as good as news as Bin Ladin gettin it.......PLEASE be true!

BETTER than Bin Laden. He's been far more visible, active, and brazen than the tall guy, who has been MIA for what, a year now?

BTW, no US outlets reporting this so Im getting more skeptical by the minute. Isnt this the 20th report of Zarqawis death?

Plus the J Post was wrong about Zawahiri when it was claimed Pakistan had him "surrounded".

Again, 48 hours.

If it is true, the Dems will take about
3 seconds to say, "What about Bin Laden?"

Most of the time these reports turn out to be bogus. IT also could be a cover so he can try and get his rear end out of the country etc.

I'll believe it when they have his head and show us it's he.

#31 -
so much for my bowl of split-pea soup this morning...
thanks.

I wonder if there is a connection between the reported death and the denouncement by his family. If they knew that he was already dead then they had little to fear from issuing the "fatwah" against him.

Very good point.

Now this would be nice...

Zarqawi, my friend, is blowing in the wind,
Zarqawi is blowing
in the wind

We will see..

sounds too good to be true, but who knows...
Perhaps his Jordanian escapade made some people he trusted betray him...

Do you think the "failed" Jordanian bomber gave up the location in Mosul? Maybe she's on her way to live a happy life in Dearborn under the Witness Protection Program -:)

Fake reporting of his death would, of course, cause him to come out of his hole temporarily to prove his existence....

Again? I hope this time it's true.

If it's true, he took that coward's way out just like Hitler. The difference is that he didn't incenerate the remains beyond recognition. Let's wait 48 hours; they should have a recognizable chunk before then.

Ann

Do you think the "failed" Jordanian bomber gave up the location in Mosul? Maybe she's on her way to live a happy life in Dearborn under the Witness Protection Program -:)

Of course, the Jordanian interrogators wouldn't have any fear of Ted Kennedy or Nancy Pelosi sniping at them for "harsh questioning".......

#25 generaltso

It's Bush's fault.

You won't hear that from the LLLs this time...

From your lips to G*d's ears, Charles. I hope so. It's not for lack of trying. The scuzzy b*st*ard!

I am very hopeful - not too sure of this wonderful (if true) news. Can we actually be this fortunate? Bush will one happy mutha if it is so but, you know he will barely acknowledge it - it is just another speed bump in the road and now a rather squishy one.

/hoorah!

Saw Jarhead this weekend - what a disappointment to see this s$(^. I was really hoping for something better than this crap. No wonder Bollywood is losing their shirts when they foist crap like this on the PAYING public.

This is a tipping point until the Democrats decide that it isn't sufficient. Or, they'll now turn around and claim that our job is done and we need to come home to save our troops.

If this report is confirmed, it's a substantial victory, though as we've already seen elsewhere - the killing or capture of high level terrorists doesn't necessarily translate into lessened terrorist attacks. We have to press the advantage while we can.

zulubaby

I want to see his head.

So do I.

Well, that's one way to prevent the torture of detainees...

I wholeheartedly approve.

Please, dear lord, let it be true!

Probably isn't, though...

Lets see him on the slab like Uday and Qusay.

My prediction: it was an inside job, ordered by Zawahiri.

Hell, even if he was dead, his buddies would quickly slap together some old video to "prove" that he's still alive. I mean, it's been working for Bin Ladin for years.

Regardless whether Zarqawi is dead or alive, this story still reflects on the prowess of our military.

There's an old saying, "First hit counts twice."

These "insurgents" start every fight from ambush. They by definition get tthe first hit, and the hardest hit, as IED's are HUGE explosions. Yet even with that advantage, our soldiers suffer one casualty, and inflict 8 killed and one wounded upon an enemy who hides among civilians.

A nine to 1 casualty rate in an urban warfare insurgency?

That's unbelieveably capable, and should give our enemies pause. America could conquer the world without half trying.

Honestly, we simply don't want it.

I gotta go with the whatevertimeperiod invokers on this one. I'm not very impressed by one Arab TV station.

... bin Laden will be happy. Zark was giving Qaeda a bad name.

#30 Cognito

Very funny link.

Wow, we were talking about him in the wee hours of the morning here in LGF and some were saying that this guy wouldn't live another 60 days.

Maybe Zarqawi was already dead as we spoke.

I hope so!

I recall on last week's meet the Press with the King of Jordan that he said they would do and go wherever they need to to get the perps behind the bombing, including going across borders. If this is true then it appears the justice may have been meted out very swiftly. One can only hope that this is true.

This must have been when three of the terrorists put on their bomb belts and exploded themselves. In which case it'll be DNA from his relatives that will identify him. We've had a couple of reports of his demise before...one from the Chinese network and one from an Arab network. JPost says this tip came from an Arab network so I think we'll have to take it with some caution. That said:HALLELULJAH!

Perhaps his own family dropped a dime on him.
Al-Zarqawi's Jordan Family Renounces Him

Listening to Wolf B. interviewing CIA-types on Late Edition, waiting for the news break.

LGF scoops CNN? Kewl.

I remind you, though, gone though he may be, there were still explosions in Baghdad today.

Debka seems a tad skeptica:

DEBKAfile Exclusive: Eight high-ranking al Qaeda leaders blew themselves up after a large American force Sunday noon laid siege to a building in which they were barricaded in Mosul, northern Iraq. November 20, 2005, 5:19 PM (GMT+02:00) The US force, backed by helicopters and tanks, was led to the location by an intelligence tip. The troops had evacuated the area and were preparing to storm the building when the terrorists killed themselves. Some Arab sources report that the American unit is busy trying to identify the 8 bodies, hoping against hope that Abu Musab al Zarqawi is among them. This is not confirmed by US military sources.

Debka

Heh. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

We can only live in hope.

:)

#43 TMF

Of course, the Jordanian interrogators wouldn't have any fear of Ted Kennedy or Nancy Pelosi sniping at them for "harsh questioning".......

Ok, let me see... if we did get Zarqawi from her information, it will be bad because we got the information from the Jordanians who violated her human rights, and so it's still wrong of BusHaliburtonCheney, Inc.

Will that work?

#53 mauk2

That's unbelieveably capable, and should give our enemies pause. America could conquer the world without half trying.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. You're absolutely right about our military showing incredible prowess, but the world is a big place with many nuclear powers, too many.

At some point 'deterrence' becomes waiting for someone to twitch like the gunfights in the Old West.

Well at least he went out with a bang.

Show me the body!

Conquer? I don't know about that. We only have so many well-trained combat divisions, and while we might be able to methodically destroy the military capabilities and a large percentage of critical infrastructure in a great many target countries with air and ground forces, we couldn't HOLD any of it. So "conquer" is a very inaccurate description of it.

Hell, we're not even *trying* to "conquer" Iraq, and look how much trouble that's giving us, and there's only 20 million of them. Do you really think we could do more?

We would have to get troops from somewhere -- foreign legion type of affair, with the establishment of a "proconsul" class (which usually leads to a satrapy, but this is beside the point). If we do not have the direction from the type to be an empire, we will not ever even contemplate moving in that direction .

The few big things we have "conquered" (e.g. Cuba, Phillipines, Japan, Germany, the like) we gave back because we got tired of keeping them. Granted we still have Guam, but that's not very big.

Where do we take the pig entrails?

A couple od days ago I suggested that Zarqawis ass was against the wall, but the it was unknown it the wall was in Syria or Iraq. If it was Iraq, the proof will be found in the DNA in the jam jar.

Even if he is dead, it makes little difference. The left will change subjects. The Arabs will blame the Jews. The war will go on. The only way to beat them is to crush them.

FDR understood this in WWII when he declared he would accept nothing more then total victory. Reagan understood it when he called the USSR the Evil Empire. We have not even gotten around to really naming our enemy and it's allies in this one.

G-d, please let this be true.

Does this mean the end of the Iowahawk reports from the field?

America could conquer the world without half trying.

What's the hold up? ;-)

#31 tats66

I think the military will wait till they actually have his pea sized nuts in a jar before they confirm his demise......

So, is this where peanuts come from?

I simply cannot believe what I'm hearing on the Sunday morning shows. I sent Blitzer a blistering email about ragging on Rumsfeld. With a 403-3 vote I cannot believe the whole "bring the troops home" rant it STILL going on!

#65 Ann

Yeah, sounds about right.

If the story is true, and the intel did come from the lady-bomber, expect a Bob Simon 60 minutes special on "Our Allies in Torture- the Jordanians- Is it worth It?" followed up with a report on all the schools built by Bin Laden in Pakistan......

Reminds me of the scene from Young Guns II after Billy and his gang ambushed a group of bounty hunters in a canyon...

Billy the Kid: "So do we give them a proper burial?"

Pat Garrett: "Sure."

/Kicks dirt over the bounty hunters bodies while firing his gun in the air.

Let's hope it wasn't 8 sacrificial splodydopes allowing Zarqawi to fake death or otherwise escape. I am hoping he just joined Osama Bin Lately in Hell.

If he is dead, I am hoping there is no other murderous barbarian psycho bastard who will fill his shoes. That SOB has senselessly killed so many people for a losing (evil)cause. If he is dead, he is one deadender whose time has certainly come.

Thanksgiving is outside the 72 hour rule -- so it may be a very thankful day. I think the rule is 72 hours -- one for every rotten raisin waiting for each waste of DNA terrorist.

please God.

30 CP

An oldie but a goodie! Thanks for digging that one up - I'm saving it this time.

78 TMF

followed up with a report on all the schools built by Bin Laden in Pakistan......

According to Senator Patty Murray (Idjit - WA), he also built hospitals and day care centers. Day care centers! For all those working muslim moms.....

#69, windbrother. You seem to be a strategy expert or something. Perhaps you could provide a more in depth view of the foundations for your thinking?

#72 jester6

We have not even gotten around to really naming our enemy and it's allies in this one.

Bush has started introducing the phrase 'islamofascists' recently. Too little, too late, but still...

#77 foreign devil

Because, as far as the Dems are concerned, it wasn't "their" bill. They're characterizing it as a "cheap, political trick" which doesn't mean a thing except that the Republicans simply couldn't "handle the truth."

If true, agreed that it wont end the insurgency.

However, who besides Zarqawi has stepped up to the plate as a well recognized AQ leader? Can anyone name anybody?

No one.

Much like there arent any major Hamas or Islamic Jihad figures anymore- since Israel started firing missles up their asses.

THerefore, it would be a huge symbolic victory and take quite a bit of wind out of the AQ sails.

#74

Have no fear, Iowahawk will find a new field reporter - al Zawahiri is a good candidate.

From your blog to the ears of Allah...lets hope for the best ... and if they find him and bury the body...dig him up and kill him again.

Related (more or less)...

Stopped for a $3.58 cup of coffee yesterday and they had the local daily newspaper on the counter. I skimmed through it while waiting for my order.

They had a huge editorial on Murtha, even put the headine for it in bolder type then usual and shaded the entire column. They wanted to make sure everyone saw it.

I read the anti-Bush hatred, but didn't see any reference to Congressman Johnson (I think that's his name) from Texas. The man who spent 7 years in a North Vietnam POW camp and spoke out in favor of the President and against Murtha the day before.

If I didn't know better, I'd think MSM has an agenda. (sarc)

#78 TMF

"Our Allies in Torture- the Jordanians- Is it worth It?"

Wolf Blitzer will then host "Is There Hope for the Minutemen Jihadis in Iraq?"

Kurt Vonnegut must be really, really upset over this development, if true....

No, wait, maybe he's happy.... I guess it really depends on whether or not Zarqawi took out any innocents when he blew up...

63 Abu Maven

Then again, Debka has been reporting OBL killed every six months or so.

Hoping it is true and crossing my fingers.

The unconfirmed report claimed that the explosions occurred after coalition forces surrounded the house in which al-Zarqawi was hiding.

#24 zulubaby

According to the story, he killed himself or was killed by his about-to-become suicide bomber buddies? Am I understanding this correctly? I want to see his head.

On the end of a pole.

Please, please be true.......

Now for the pigskin shroud!
(the Shroud of Vermin)

Pacifists Int'l will file suit if they actually show his body......

I am really happy to hear of his purported demise but methinks that having Zarqawi around a little longer would be of benefit. At the rate that he is screwing up the successful application of guerilla tactics (i.e. don't alienate the population you are hiding in!) he is probably more damaging to the terrorists while he is alive and in control.

That being said if he is dead then they will probably replace him with someone even more incompetent.

Nothing on the 1 PM EST CNN news break

If true; then, Everyone Sing!

So long sad times!,
Go 'long bad times!,
We are rid of you at last
Howdy, gay times!
Cloudy gray times,
You are now a thing
Of the past, cause:

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
Let us sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again
Altogether shout it now!
There's no one who can doubt it now
So let's tell the world about it now
Happy days are here again
Your cares and troubles are gone;
There'll be no more from now on
Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
Let us sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again

Zarqawi killed?

Was this part of Bush's non-exsitent war plan?

According to yesterday's AP story on the raid (which obviously doesn't mention Zarqawi) this was a joint operation by Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers against a farmhouse in the al-Sukar neighborhood of Mosul. Twelve reported fatalilties, including four Iraqi police officers, three suicide bombers, and five other jihadis. One of the dead jihadis was reportedly a woman.

OK, party time is over.

Everyone out of the pool and back to the Intelligent Design thread.

#17 Protagonist
LOL

Still completely MIA in US media. Another fizzle?

... still nothing from the lamestream media ...

Well, lizards, I gotta run for now. Catch you soon.

Whats truly sad is that I am sure some staff member(s) of our illustrious democratic party who is tasked with monitoring our little blog here has reported this to his masters and they are actually PRAYING, crossing their fingers, and rubbing Buddah's belly in the hopes that it isnt true.........

Prepare for disappointment. Google "Zarqawi dead". There have been many reports like this before.

We have had our hopes raised far too often to not wait for official and confirmation.

# 74 E2M

Crap ! I hadn't even thought of that. A heavy price, but one we'll have to bear sooner or later.

#30

"But instead, I am fed the boiling feces of traitors by malicious, laughing Ifrit (?). Is this to be my reward for destroying the enemies of my faith?"

I can't wait for the reaction (and angry denials) of the jihadis and their crocodile-feeding supporters on the Left when they're told Zarqawi took the coward's way out.

I won't believe it until there'sa body...but in any event.....w00t!

Anticipated DUmb/KoS response anyone?

"Yeah, so?"

"When will the REAL terrorists be killed?"

"Damn, I was hoping hed stay alive to bring down chimpys poll numbers a little more"

"You know, he seemed like a pretty decent guy"

#101 DesertSage

LOL!

Our little troll "Snoper" on the other thread must be in mourning over this announcement.

Yes. Boiling feces, while hot is actually delicious.

#113 TMF

You forgot one:

Lies, lies, lies! Repuke propaganda!

If Zarqawi is among the dead, we would expect to find some dead goats among the carnage too.
One of the dead jihadis was reportedly a woman.

# 103 Eagle

Oh God (so to speak), not another one !

Won't he be surprised and very disappointed to find out that the 72 virgins are all clones of Rosie O'Lardass, Butch Reno & Barney Frank?!?

Let's hope that the body is given the dignity and respect it deserves: Bury the son of a bitch wrapped in the skin of a pig, with his dick in his mouth. Allah akbar, indeed!

#114 rightymouse

Hopefully, little scoper is reading some military history books right about now, like you told him to do.

He hasn't come back to the other thread yet...

Isn't that conveeeeenient.

Zarqaqi has been dis-owned by his family (with a reported hit out on him), Jordanians and other arabs are righteously pissed off at him, and mostIraqis hate him because he's been killing them like there it's open season. I suspect he just blew up a handful of future idiot splodedupes as a way to 'diassapear'.

It would be wonderful if true (insert obligatory ulululuululu here), but I reserve my belief until I see the shredded, rotting corpse. And DNA proof

I want to see a body. I want a dead mug shot like Hussein's sons.
This is probably a ploy concocted by the devil himself to take the crosshairs of the muslim world off his own behind.

I am reminded of John Belushi's line in 1941:

Death to fag insurgents!

Or something like that.

Like everyone else I am cautious about this news but keeping my fingers crossed.

I am sure the anti-American 'reporters' around the world (starting with CBS, CNN and the NY Times) are working feaverishly to turn this happy occassion into a chance to spin it in to a defeat for this country and the decent people of Iraq.

Imagine the stories after the first bombing following Zarq's death:

"A sucicide bomber in Iraq killed x people today. Experts say this proves the recent death of Zarqawi has not slowed the heroic resistance of Iraq's insurgents to the American occupation.

In other news, Democrats in Washington called for an immediate withdrawal of US troops but then voted against it in what they called, 'a courageous act of leadership'."

Somethings will never change: the idiocy of the left and the courage of America's troops are just two of them.

If it's true, it comes on the heels of the wedding bombings in Jordan. Goes to show how the arabs can find these people soon enough when it's them in the firing line.

If its true it will be a real coup for the blogosphere. Googlenews reveals nobody's touching the report yet. I suspect the media is hoping it is false. They're probably already spinning phrases for his idealist-gone-bad eulogy.

This would be a particularly good time for him to die right on the heels of his Jordan blunder. His own family in Jordan is denouncing him.

This is a hoot!

(Jerusalem Post's Dry Bones on Disney's huge investment in Israeli high tech. My wife wondered what I was laughing out loud about.)

I hope this turns out to be true.

BLAMO!

I hope it rained pieces of his tick-ridden carcass for an hour. Goat-fuc*&ing piece of shi%.

What will CAIR and the rest of the apologists do with that piece of news? Will we see Clinton II with a congratulatory statement to the coalition forces responsible? Another Cronkite-like mumble about the war being 'un-winable'?

More power to the people making liberty available to an oppressed society. Congratulations to all who serve and my eternal thanks.

Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel
The Holy City of Winston-Salem

#120 DesertSage

I hope so. But these types usually stick their fingers in their ears and go "lalalalala! Do not want anything to interfere with my BDS!"

The Jawa Report blog is following the story as well:
Eight High Ranking al Qaida Blew Themselves Up

wonder if there is a connection between the reported death and the denouncement by his family. If they knew that he was already dead then they had little to fear from issuing the "fatwah" against him.

Ahhh....the family takes care of their own....*mafia boss voice*

Sounds like the waste of a good bounty, but we'll take it, and bury the remains for free in a ton of rotting pigs heads.

Nothing at Drudge, CNN or FOX yet.

A little irony: EARLY this a.m. (Chicago time)I was having breakfast out with my wife and the topic of Zarqawi arose.

I predicted it was inevitable that he was going to be caught, "eventually". I also predicted he'd surrender after being surrounded - the way all these asshat Arab "leaders" do because they're basically cowards who send other peons to blow themselves up. (My 3rd prediction was he would surrender along with his laptop computer).

IF this item is true (and let's keep in mind "if something seems to good to be true...etc), then I'm going to spread the thory Zarqawi wanted to surrender but some other fanatic(s)in the house "pulled the plug" on all of them.......

Who knows? Maybe they'll find his laptop in the ruins. That way I'd be right in 2/3 of my "predictions" :-))))

Luca Brasi may sleep with the fishes but Al-Zarqawi sleeps with the goats.

couldnt have happened to a nicer guy

If this turns out to be true, the drinking lamp will stay lit for a long time...I'm off from work this week.

The source is an Arab TV station and unconfirmed. I will take this with a hefty block of salt.

#138 flipflop

If this turns out to be true, the drinking lamp will stay lit for a long time...I'm off from work this week.

If it's true, it'll prompt the Drinking Thread to end all drinking threads!

:^D

#136 Beto Ochoa

It's a Sicilian message.

since this is through the jpost, it will be considered a zionist plot, nothing more.

And I got a hat tip out of this! Haven't had one in months! Thanks Charles!

Hope it's true.... But if it is, the way to defeat a group like al-Qaida is to continuously kill the next level of leadership. That's what Israel did with Hamas. Terrorists are like worms - when you chop their heads off, another one grows.

Feel almost the way I did the morning that Saddam's capture broke. Woke up, and before settling on the couch for a day of football, checked the news. Just casually scanning read "Hussein Captured," kept reading and then went, "wait, WHAT?!?!"

The difference is I'm more guarded today waiting for confirmation and I'm going to the Bronco's game instead of watching them on the tube.

please let it be true

I was in Turkey in Sept. of this year although it was only the tourist port of Kusadasi. All the store owners spoke perfect English. I happened to mention that we had been a bit worried due to the bus blown up there a little over a month prior. The businessman said, "No, no bus was blown up." I said, "It wasn't a tourist bus but a Turkish bus with some foreigners on it." The businessman said, "No, this did not happen." I said, "July 13, 2005, killed 13 Brits." The businessman said, "Oh, we took care of that."

So possibly, Zarqawi crossed a line and when finally hit in the pocketbook, other Muslims ratted him out. If his death has been exaggerated, I feel he might not be around long enough for his avocadoes to ripen.

another one bites the dust, and another one down and another one down

/channeling Queen

Die, fucker, die.

Has Jerusalem Post taken down the link to their own article? The article is still there, but there are no links to it that I can find on their main page, or the Middle East page.

Folks, this may prove to be the first justifiable suicide bombing in world history.

It doesn't seem to have claimed more than the splodeydopes involved, and may have dealt a death blow to the foreign insurgency in Iraq.

If true, alcohol and pork rinds for all!

#136 Beto Ochoa

Luca Brasi may sleep with the fishes but Al-Zarqawi sleeps with the goats

He should be the ewe for 72 billies.

#141 ChrisTP
Thanks! One of my favorites.
I also loved this scene in GhostBusters
[the Ghostbusters HQ blows up]
Louis: It is time! This is the sign!
Janine: It's a sign all right: "Going out of business"!

Well they did have the failed splodeydope in Jordan on ice for 24-48 hrs before they released the fact that she was still alive. Zarqawi's statement after the bombing showed that he did not know she had been capped.

So one can assume that she sang, and we followed the names back to someone in the know about where he was holed up.

Of all the times I have heard about Zarqawi's death, this one seems to have all of the proper pieces in place for it to happen.

Anty

This will be a true turning point in the war on terror if it is true....it shows that the terrorists are finally bombing people who deserve it. way to go bombers! No, go out and get a few more of these scumbags...oops that sounded insensitive....sorry CNN...I meant freedom fighters.

#148 flipflop

Has Jerusalem Post taken down the link to their own article? The article is still there, but there are no links to it that I can find on their main page, or the Middle East page.

Well, I went to their main page, and it's still in the crawl line in the top middle of the page. I didn't try searching.

#151 Beto

Quite welcome....

#150 aaron

He should be the ewe for 72 billies.

Or the Monica for 72 Willies....

Drudge has a link to the JPost article now. Don't see it picked up anywhere else yet.

We can only hope he's dead. Maybe he knew he did not have a place to hide after his family publicly disowned him.

If this turns out to be true, then Allah must be listening carefully to Jordanians' prayers, because I don't doubt for a minute that the content of many of those prayers for the recent past has been to stop Zarqawi.

If not true, the guy probably won't be visiting his tribe or family any time soon, since they may well kill him if he shows his face.

Al-Zar's family put an ad in the Jordan paper denouncing him to Doomsday...

So Doomsday happened, hunh...

Drudge has reservations about it... no siren.. its not the headline.

his family publicly disowned him.

Bin Laden's family did the same, didn't stop him.

But.. but... there are no terrorists in Iraq...

Michael Moore

#159 Bubbles

Actually, I think it was more like Boomsday (if true)...

Chris

Boomsday... yeah!

Boomsday...

I love it, chris! ;)

Buhahahaha!

When you fire a TOW missile into a building full of explosives, things tend to go BOOOM.

.... and then ya just gotta bust a move!

Die You Basterd Die

Hehe

Zarqawi has brought shame on his family in Jordan. That's why they've denounced him. Not that they don't agree with him. One of the CNN reporters went to the town which gave him his name in Jordan and interviewed several of his cousins. They all told Nic Robertson they agreed with Zarqawi. If they are now saying they denounce him it's because they are feeling rejection and the shame of the disapproval of the rest of the Jordanians. Shame is a powerful force and as Ali Sina said in faithfreedom.org, the reason he thinks Muslims will eventually leave Islam is the shame factor. Because Muslims are very proud and whenever another Muslim does something good or someone famous says something nice about Islam they'll tell you about it as often as you'll listen. They hate to talk about things that don't place Islam in a positive light. Zarqawi has brought shame. It was one thing when everyone in the Middle East wanted to see the Americans come a cropper, but once their own turned on them after the wedding bombing, Zarqawi became a distinct liability.

For them, shame is more powerful than Islam. Islam has taught them that but like our weakness of p.c., shame is their weakness.

#162 Bubble G

Why does eveyone have to bring up Fat Man?

I'm assuming that US authorities have his family DNA on file somewhere.

So, Serious question.
How long does it take in real life to get DNA results back from the field.

Not looking for a CSI Miami answer, real life.

I figure if anyone knows, it would be one of us.

170 Hous

Bringing up Fat Man to rub it in his fat face... the dude said there are no terrorists in Iraq... well, who the hell is Al-Zarqawi? A kite salesman? And where is Mosul?

 #167

hous bin pharteen  11/20/2005 10:44AM PST

When you fire a TOW missile into a building full of explosives, things tend to go BOOOM.

.... and then ya just gotta bust a move!

Patented Acme move~

On one hand I hope the reports that Zarcowhide's death by splodeydope is true. On the other I hope it isn't...getting blown up is far too easy a death for that lover of goats.

Security forces in Morocco have arrested 17 radicals linked to Al-Qaeda.

#172 bubble girl

And if any moonbat says the terrorists only came to Iraq because we were there, tell them to Google abu nidal, abu abbas, baghdad. Those terrorist pigs were in Baghdad long before we got there.

Heard from my in-theater source.

A couple of well-placed folks who have seen the remains are positive it is Zarawi, but several others (including a Zarq relative) aren't sure.
Nobody is sure that it isn't him, but the body is in very bad shape.
DNA will soon provide confirmation one way or the other.

#171,

Not a forensics guy, but some familiarity with DNA techniques. To actually run the tests, maybe a day's work, if you've got good samples.

They should have plenty to work with if they have the body, and willing relatives. We're not talking about trace evidence that needs amplifying first...

#170 hous bin pharteen

Why does eveyone have to bring up Fat Man?

The "Fat Man" said that the "Insurgency were the Minutemen, and they will win".

Zarqawi being killed (if true), is not a winning strategy for them, or the "Fat Man".

They should dispose of his remains in the Mosul sanitory sewer system.

#172 Bubble

Well he give me the heebe geebees.

Reminds me of Jabba the Huts long lost relative.

Maybe they should make another movie with him.

Fat Man, instead of Batman.

He goes around saving little murderers to make the world safe for Stalinists.

Osama tipped the coalition/Iraqi forces off. Zark was outta control. Blowing up Muslim weddings and alll.

Would be good to be able to show his head on a platter though. Osama's been gettin' a little lazy as of late. Zark is/was the real deal. Willing to blow anybody up at anytime, regardless of religion. Being a Muslim is in no way a pass in the minds of people like him. If anything you would be more of a mark.

I know it's an impossible dream but how sweet would it be for Zark to be kidnapped by rogue elements of the Iraqi police and beheaded in a Berg type of video.

#178 Dar

Thanks for the feedback.

Gotta go get more beer, just in case.

#177,

They may already know, given the time that's elapsed, but for an I.D. this important, you'd want several independent lines of evidence, I'd think.

Rumor is he was poisoned by the Mossad by an untracable toxin.

#85 Peter Verkooijen

Bush has started introducing the phrase 'islamofascists' recently. Too little, too late, but still...

You are right. But I qualified my statement with "allies". Here's my point.

It is quite popular today to separate the Nazi's from the German people today. And to be far, no society is monolithic. Our leaders may even have talked about fighting the German Nazis at the time. I am no expert on WWII propaganda. But in the end, the silent German masses were punished. We held them accountable when we turned their cities into rubble.

Islamofacists are akin to the German Nazis or Japanese Militarists or any other ideological movement that finds harbor in a larger demographic. Bush needs to let the Islamo people know they will be held accountable for the Islamofacists actions if they sit by silently.

I wish I could have been there, so i could say....

"When you get to hell, tell em, Bush Sent ya!"

I don't know if debka is updating this continually, but its interesting info.

DEBKAfile Exclusive: US forces and forensic experts are examining the bodies of eight high-ranking al Qaeda leaders in Mosul to find out if their chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is among them.

A sample of his DNA is in American possession for a match-up.

The US may take time to identify the remains - to maintain a tactical and strategic advantage. They may want to keep the air of uncertainty going for a while as they go thru and see what other intel they can get.

If the report of his death is true, then he was probably informed on after the Jordanian 'error'.

jester6

Do you have any idea how many people across the globe practice Islam? You ready to deal with over a billion people?

32 TMF 11/20/2005 09:30AM PST BETTER than Bin Laden. He's been far more visible, active, and brazen than the tall guy, who has been MIA for what, a year now?BTW, no US outlets reporting this so Im getting more skeptical by the minute. Isnt this the 20th report of Zarqawis death?

Plus the J Post was wrong about Zawahiri when it was claimed Pakistan had him "surrounded".
Again, 48 hours.

Did anyone catch the military guy on Fox yesterday saying that it was well known in intel circles that they did have him in their sites, but couldn't get approval in time? White haired guy with goatee, bad with names!

 #185

Sir Lurksalot  11/20/2005 10:53AM PST

Rumor is he was poisoned by the Mossad by an untracable toxin.

No, those Zionist Hair Death Rays!

Informed on, ... hmm if you cant trust hajji bomb makers and homicidal islamofascists, then who can you trust these days?

If true, it might possibly be this incident in al-Sukar.

MOSUL, Iraq-- U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a farmhouse in northern Iraq at dawn Saturday, searching for suspected members of al-Qaida in Iraq. Eight insurgents and four Iraqi policemen were killed, officials said.

Brig. Said Ahmed al-Jubouri, the spokesman for the Mosul police, said Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers surrounded a house in the al-Sukar neighborhood of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

BTW, the above link took a long time to open - may be getting a lot of hits.

Osama escapes once more

WTH!

[Link: dnaindia.com...]

#190 Ben B

If the report of his death is true, then he was probably informed on after the Jordanian 'error'.

Wouldn't surprise me.

191 bubble you know how many nukes and neutron weapons we have? enough to do the trick, then we can have the israelis do the "mopping up" after its done, they deserve to have oil of their own anyway

OT:

I really want to use RSS/Atom feeds for OSM.org. But where is the link? Is there one? Charles, can you put up a feed link for it on the OSM page? Please.

On Topic: I hope they got the bastard.

I feel really good about this.
Debka File:

[Link: debka.com...]

 #176

flipflop  11/20/2005 10:49AM PST

#172 bubble girl

And if any moonbat says the terrorists only came to Iraq because we were there, tell them to Google abu nidal, abu abbas, baghdad. Those terrorist pigs were in Baghdad long before we got there.

Yep! I cannot remember how many times my LLL friends used Fatboy's, "there are/were no terrorists in Iraq," as an argument against the invasion. Of course these are the same idiot who claim it is a Bush-Cheney-Halliburton-Jew conspiracy... Geesh~

Hopefully it’s true. But Fox still isn’t saying anything, must be waiting for conformation.
If it is true, it proves that the Islamic world would tolerate all that he was doing, until he threatened one of them. Odd, how people can be found depending on who they are threatening.

Nice Link, Kiernan !

What a coincindence. This is exactly what I prayed for in church.

 #198

lockednloaded  11/20/2005 10:59AM PST

191 bubble you know how many nukes and neutron weapons we have? enough to do the trick, then we can have the israelis do the "mopping up" after its done, they deserve to have oil of their own anyway

Yes I do. You got to be kidding, Locked...

One down and the 20% of muslims that are terrorists or terrorist supporters to go. I believe it when the DNA evidence is confirmed. Otherwise....Good Hunting US Military.

#169 foreign devil

For them, shame is more powerful than Islam. Islam has taught them that but like our weakness of p.c., shame is their weakness.

That's a most thoughtful post. Shame is the Arabian Achilles heel as political correctness is the West's. Must think about that. It may be that political correctness will prove the easier to get rid of.

Zarqawi you son-of-a-bitch emmissary from the religion of hell I hope you really have been blown to atoms, and I hope it really hurt.

they can melt back into the stone age, or embrace the light of a million suns if their religion teaches them all to kill infidels and expand the dar as-salam till the only ones left are them. It is a war of annhilation in every sense of the word. today they are claiming Eurabia, tomorow, America.

Zarwhacki is dead? Did Zarswhirli call for it to be done? Who knows. What we need to see AND for the MSM to accept...are photos of his head (doubt if much would be left) on a table. Like some of the previous postings I read....it'll just sprout another worm. No exit plan. Keep on forcing them into corners so they can fill up the bunks of the Virgin Paradise in the Sky Hotel! I want our forces to be home, just like the rest of us. But the job is far from over. This is a world war (said that before in postings here)and it is going to last longer than we want. The Cindycrats think that it is illegal war, since there wasn't a congressional declaration signed. Don't recall Slick getting one for Bosnia-Herzegovina? Aren't there military "peace-keeper" forces still patroling? We still have occupying forces in England, Italy, Germany, Japan, South Korea too don't we? I don't see a cut & run for 2006. Maybe after 2008 IF Geena, I mean Hillary regains control. But then it will still be blamed on Bush.

I wonder if they will show the body like they did with the Hussein brothers

I believe it is traditional in such circumstances for the corpses to be moved to France for medical treatment prior to burial.

Strategically, if it is true that the number one is killed, this would tend to demoralize the rest. The targetted killing of two Hamas leaders by Israel in short succession seemed to dampen the enthusiasm or effectiveness of the organization as a hole.

On the other hand, in the public relations war, is there some paradoxical downside as well as advantage to taking out the terrorist in chief? Al-Zarqawi presented a well-defined and publicy understood portrait of evil. A clear cut murderous agenda directed at Jordan and Iraqi civilians as well as Americans and Israelis, and use of tactics such as beheadings. If the insurgency continues unabated in Iraq, but through more anonymous and disorganized murderers, might not it be more difficult to rally public opinion in the democracies?

In other words, in the 200 channel universe, is there not a grim utility, from the point of view of maintaining public support for the ongoing grind of the war in having a Zarqawi or Bin Laden on the other side as a symbol of what self-respecting democracies are fighting?

Is it even possible, now that Al-Z became an embarassment to his own side, due to the Jordan murders, that he was betrayed by some of the insurgents, who saw him as a public relations disaster?

Hey Germans are helping Israel

[Link: arutzsheva.com...]

#190 Ben B

He has had a bunch of really nasty mofo's on his ass for quite a while. It was just a matter of time till they tacked his scalp to the wall.

If the theory expounded by several LGFers above, that as soon as Zarqawee targeted Jordanian Arabs, he was given up, it leads to an inevitable conclusion. That is, that in future the US, Israelis or whoever, must deliberatly target civilians linked to terrorist leaders, ensuring that the blame points to those leaders. Their people will then turn on them, thus ensuring that whilst a few innocent people are sacrificed, many more are spared.

#211 Avner

Probably not. According to my source, cross-contamination of the remains was a slight complication in DNA testing. They are proceeding with samples removed from fully protected portions of the remains, bone marrow most likely but I don't know a whole lot about this stuff.
That is, the 'dopes are so f***ed up that fluids and even tissue from each have mixed liberally with scraps from the others.

#161 Sarah D

If FatBasTurd^TM were to become a suicide bomber there's be a lot of clearing up to do.

Rumor is he was poisoned by the Mossad by an untracable toxin.

Untraceable because it's actually a "laser"

If Zarqawi is dead, of course there still will be attacks(Which we all know the press will show repeatedly as proof nothing has changed), ones that were in the pipeline already. If they drop off a lot in a few weeks, it could really be the turning point.
Do Ya'll think the bombings of the 2 mosques, and the funeral might have lead someone inside to say enough is enough?

I'm sure someone has said...48 hour rule, right?

Have to get DNA from that lovely family of his...unless Abdullah has it already.

But I do admit to feeling absolutely giddy, in anticipation of this mother f**ker being dead...D-E-A-D!

Seems to me there've been a few too many unconfirmed reports of extremely high-ranking al-Q and Saddam rodents getting reported whacked or croaking, including the head turd himself, UBL.

Get some heads on pikes, I'll be far less skeptical. But...the last type of report I'd hold any faith in are those being reported by or in some muslim wipe. 3 in less than a month? UBL, al-Duri and now wacky-Zacky.

As much as I'd like to believe it...I won't be holding my breath.

I see, Shiplord. Interesting to say the least.

Israeli Exports to the US Continue to Rise!

:)

[Link: arutzsheva.com...]

Remember when we caught Sadaam.

Oh how naive I was.

I thought "there is no WAY anyone can try to spin this as a negative".

Sure enough, it took hours, maybe minutes before the Dem/MSM talking heads were spinning like a top.

If it's true this time (I think its the 20th claim of dead Zarqawi), we'll see more of the same.

I'll wait until the meat paste scrapings have been DNA tested/

If it's true...send his head to Michael Berg...he loves the guy...afterall "Zarqawi got to know my son".

He Michael Berg, have you met Cindy Sheehan, yet?

#215 #17

The Jordanian bombing was a bad PR move.

You dont think communications from Zarqawi didnt pick up significantly?

All it takes is to stick your head up once at the wrong time and.........WHAMMO!

He was not ratted out. He got sloppy.

Find em. Fix em. Finish em.

#217 BenB

"If FatBasTurdTM were to become a suicide bomber there's be a lot of clearing up to do."

OTOH, identification would be easy: the sheer mass of the gruesome offal and the presence of facial hog-bristles would obviate any complex scientific tests.

Oh yeah...if true you can send the rest of this vermin to France for autopsy...they love doing shit for Islamist killers and kiddies....:).

#217 Ben B

In all of human history, I don't think there has been enough explosives manufactured to do the job...

#225 Elcid

Please tell me that was a joke, that Michael Berg did not really say that.

Well the InTrade.com Dec contract on Zarqawi has shown a sharp uptick and is currently the most heavily trade on the exchange. Probably people just covering their shorts, but maybe there is an insider making a killing.

Dead or not, whenever his time comes, I hope he has an eternity of this to look forward to.

#212 Nogen David

n other words, in the 200 channel universe, is there not a grim utility, from the point of view of maintaining public support for the ongoing grind of the war in having a Zarqawi or Bin Laden on the other side as a symbol of what self-respecting democracies are fighting?

No. No utility. The 200 channel consumer is victory starved. Nothing out there now but this infuriating defeatism (Ie: a certain EX-marine congressman yesterday).

/Allah bless the Z-man, blast residue be upon him

#226 hous bin pharteen,

IF true we can't eliminate the possibility that someone "dropped a dime" on him. Jordanian intelligence is supposedly pretty good and spread throught the ME. Its one thing for OBL to threaten the House of Saud from the mountains of Afghanistan and another if you threaten Jordan's king while in Iraq. It could also have been someone looking to collect the sizable bounty on his head.

I too have not heard anything on Fox yet - but they did have an interesting report earlier about Zarqawhi's family - they have apparently taken out full-page ads in 3 prominent Jordanian newspapers disavowing him.

If we wrap things up in Iraq in the next year or two my guess is that things will heat up in western Europe. They're the soft underbelly of the west in general. Osama and Co. cannot beat us in a military sense but in a "long range, demographic, cultural" sense they have a lot of leverage in Eurabia.

They can't do it in the U.S., but in Europe they can fall back on the radical infrastructure they've been building for the last two decades.

Paris riots were about many things one of them being radical Islam's abiltiy to focus action under the banner of "racism, poverty, integration" etc.

They could have the most success by scaring the Europeans with a "soft war", al Theo van Gogh. Once they realize the West won't back down in the "hard" war they will focus their efforts on the more fertile front.... the cultural war in western Europe.

This front will ratchet up in the next 5-10 years. Good to be an American at this point but we will have to help the Europeans (no matter how much they don't deserve it) to crush their "soft insurgency".

I smell doo-doo.

The report now says that he "may" have been killed.

My bet is that he is in Syria.

If this has been posted, sorry! I just do not believe that the rat bastard is dead. They pull this crap every few weeks. Show us the body, DNA, etc. This one sounds good, but I would bet that they are still sending him money, just like bin liner's family probably are. Al-Zarqawi's Jordan family renounces him

...The family of al-Zarqawi, whose real name is Ahmed Fadheel Nazzal al-Khalayleh, reiterated their strong allegiance to Jordan's King Abdullah II in half-page advertisements in the kingdom's three main newspapers. Al-Zarqawi threatened to kill the king in an audiotape released Friday.

"A Jordanian doesn't stab himself with his own spear," said the statement by 57 members of the al-Khalayleh family, including al-Zarqawi's brother and cousin. "We sever links with him until doomsday."

The statement is a serious blow to al-Zarqawi, who no longer will enjoy the protection of his tribe and whose family members may seek to kill him.

"As we pledge to maintain homage to your throne and to our precious Jordan ... we denounce in the clearest terms all the terrorist actions claimed by the so-called Ahmed Fadheel Nazzal al-Khalayleh, who calls himself Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," the family members said.

"We announce, and all the people are our witnesses, that we - the sons of the al-Khalayleh ....

read whole article, then spit 3 times.

I am just a sceptic, I guess. What really impresses me is just how Stone Age the cult of Islam is....look what they do to females to 'protect their honor'. And to goats, donkeys, little boys.......

Need more confirmation than this before throwing the candy around...
actually, throwing candy has never been appropriate with death, even with enemies.

If we start getting videos of Zarqawi in obscure locations, with separate audio tapes denouncing global warming, then he's dead.

Only slightly OT :
How does Osama bin Laden, MIA, sound?

Good enough to drive moonbats and terrorists nuts?

Perhaps the timing of this is also of interest Zarqawi's family pledges allegience to king and renounces him

#1 Beagle

Mazel tov! :)

#240 wanumba

If we start getting videos of Zarqawi in obscure locations, with separate audio tapes denouncing global warming, then he's dead.

Hee hee! ;)

#32 TMF

Sorry -always happens when I don't peruse the thread from #1. You beat me to it.

Osama bin Laden, MIA

#235 Gadfly

Because I heard different yesterday.

Link

I knew they were close. Not THAT close.
Always the off chance he snuck out before the big bang.
We surrounded the place with tanks and helo's as well as troops. Sound like the evil twins of Saddam?

233 christheprofessor

You have a knack for finding the best clips. I especially liked the one from Goodfellas...

I mean, funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh...

#234 The Shadow Do

No. No utility. The 200 channel consumer is victory starved. Nothing out there now but this infuriating defeatism (Ie: a certain EX-marine congressman yesterday)

Amen

#226 hous bin pharteen

He was not ratted out. He got sloppy.

Find em. Fix em. Finish em

SIGINT is a beautiful thing:-)

Interesting.

Most likely not news to most of you, but I was not aware of this.

Hmmm...the JPost article has been updated. It says "Arab web site" instead of "Arab TV channel" now.

I'm growing more skeptical by the minute. :(

The original source for this is Eleph Arab Media, a fairly obscure organization.

They might have the scoop because:
A. They made it up.
B. They are the ones who gave Zarq away, in response to the Jordan massacres.

Would that his end be true. However, if he's been blown into a thousand little pieces, it'll be harder to find him! Careful now, he's here, there, everywhere, he's been blown by the wind! Will he get his 72-Virginians when he arrives in Paradise?

Also, this story isn't on JPost's actual list of breaking stories anymore.

The link still exists, but JPost isn't posting the link for new readers.

You can get there only if you know the URL.

This sounds a bit less hopeful. :(

#238 thscott

My bet is that he is in Syria.

Our best guess is Lebanon, namely Ein al-Hilweh camp, if not in Iraq. Profile suggests that he'd stay put in Iraq and not run away.

#251 olderthandirt

heheh...this is one Virginian who'd be more than happy to make his acquaintance, however brief that acquaintance would be.

#245

Clan Snitch Catches

"The Jordanian sources say a member of the clan snitched, alerting police to her whereabouts.
"
I know the source (Time) is dubious but this claims that it was a clan member that turned in the failed suicide bombing woman - one who was marriage related to Zarqawi.

I guess one can hope that this repeated...

#212 NogenDavid

Good points. I'd still like to piss on his grave.

#242 NY Nana

My Sharona! ;>

If it turns out to be true that he is dead it will take about 30 seconds for the press to start spinning this to imply that things will really get bad because we have made a matyr out of the sorry sack of shit. The press played bullet proof vest for Arafat for about 30 years and Zarqawi is their latest Nobel Prize Candidate.

i hope his head came off.

Sorry I'm not caught up. Damn grass growing.

It could be a cover so Zarqawi could skedaddle to Iran where the "top leadership of al Qaeda" (Ijaz) is parked.

#253 aaron

Why not Paris?

The french would never find him.

253 aaron

Just a pipe dream on my part.. and that Saddam's WMD will be found under Assad's thumb. One can hope.

#248 Sarah D.

Thanks. That is a great find.

This example of the general civility and kindness of the cult of islam makes me want to puke; they are the enemy of us all, Christian and Jew:
Arrest over girls' beheadings

INDONESIAN police have arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of involvement in the beheading of three teenage Christian girls in the religiously divided district of Poso.

Machete-wielding attackers ambushed the three high school students on their way home on October 29, killing three and wounding the fourth, police said.
Two of the victims' heads were found near a police post while the third was discovered outside a Christian church.

The incident has sparked public indignation at home and overseas.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono condemned the killings and Pope Benedict XVI deplored what he described as "barbaric murder"....

There is more...may G-d help the families of the murdered girls...and may the murderer(s) die an horrific death.

There is no place on this planet where anyone can sit back and relax, thinking that 'it can't happen here'. Wrong! It can happen and either has or will unless the assholes wake up and recognize that the cult of islam is the greatest threat we face, and they have the money to buy any kind of weaponry they want, and will use it. We have a choice: us or them. They will not change, ever. I choose us, but the world, Eurabia included, has to wake up yesterday. The LLL's are idiots, and are also a danger, because of their mass ignorance...ostriches with their heads buried in the sand, and their asses in the air as targets. Let's ship the ACLU off to Syria, along with all the apologists.

#258 ibmkeyboard

i hope his head came off.

"You knocked his block off!"

Debka says the U.S. has Zarqawi's DNA on file so it can verify the claim he's dead.

I have my doubts.

Thank you God.

231 cTp

Please tell me that was a joke, that Michael Berg did not really say that.

I'm looking for that exact quote, as I'm sure Michael Berg, did in fact say that...below is one I have found

These are the hateful nutcases Michael Berg signed up with when he signed the International ANSWER statement. (Incidentally, ANSWER’s most recent campaign is to “Defend Dr. Hatem Bazian,” the professor who called for an “intifada” in America.) His son, Nick, saw a nation that needed his help and tried to better it. Michael Berg said of the killer, “They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend.”
FrontPage

Maybe tfk was prophetic the other day.

It's not only the Zarqawi family that needs to restore honor. With the capture of the failed suicide bomber, the "powerful and ubiquitous" Shammar tribe was definitively identified as being agents of Al Qaeda.

The recent letter from Ayman al-Zawahiri to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi requesting $100,000, if true, suggests that Al Qaeda is running awfully short on funds. It kinds of makes one wonder if Al Qaeda even has the wherewithall to put a hit on their renegade field commander.

If his death is true, the true story will only be a rumor about what really happened. Any US involvement will be removed from the story so as to not incite more crazies. The official line will be that his fam got him. They save face this way, and our allies in Jordan keep from being the target of more terrorist acts. They avenged the death of their people and nothing more. He is an Ex- terrorist. Dead is dead and so be it! I would just love to see an unaltered autopsy report though.

Michael Berg said of the killer, “They did not know what they were doing. They killed their best friend.”

What a useful idiot, with the emphasis on idiot.

Haven't read the the thread yet but... what if this is a staged event, so he can make an escape? We've heard rumors of his death before.
Let's wait till we get some DNA proving he was in the building.

meanwhile Air America continues the "Bush lied, people died" meme.

#272 EIDE...

Sheesh...those gutter-crawling amoebae aren't off the air yet?

What could have happened is he changed clothes with someone who blew themselves up and it was thought to be Zarqawi. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I'm not hopeful now, since JPost has taken the story down.

Oh, I'd say we'll see a replay of the spin used when news came out that the Hussein boys were dead: "We should have tried to negotiate instead of killing him! All we've done instead is enrage the people of the region more!"

The Left hates when their "Brave Revolutionaries" are killed instead of being captured. It not only robs them of a decade long circus trial, but also the decades of "FREE (Insert Liberal "Hero's" Name)!"

but bush lied..... and this hero was fighting for the truth! this is only a victory for the neocons and zionist occupiers. this day will be remembered and honored the same as mao, che,ho chi min(sp?), stalin and all heros that fought and died for freedom.

/yes i know they killed a few but those jews and anti progress capitalist needed to be killed for the good of all!

Well if Zarqawi wasn't killed, look on the bright side. The fact that they chose to kill themselves rather than risk capture speaks of their importance in the terror hierarchy. Sure the main scumbag may yet live, but at least 8 possibly very important underlings are burning in hell right now.

Here's what Michael Berg said to Britain's left-wing Guardian:

People ask me why I focus on putting the blame for my son's tragic and atrocious end on the Bush administration. They ask: "Don't you blame the five men who killed him?" I have answered that I blame them no more or less than the Bush administration, but I am wrong: I am sure, knowing my son, that somewhere during their association with him these men became aware of what an extraordinary man my son was. I take comfort that when they did the awful thing they did, they weren't quite as in to [sic] it as they might have been. I am sure that they came to admire him.

>The official line will be that his fam got him.

Nope....a better spin would be to say the Iraqi military got him themselves. Gives them credibility, a little show of strength and puts other less-cooperative Iraqi's on notice.

Question for the anti-war/leftist/liberal axis of lunancy: if Zarqawi is CAPTURED, will you advocate that we treat HIM "humanely"? On what possible basis does a self-declared mass murderer deserve ANYTHING but the harshest possible interrogation, including any form of torture we think will be effective?

sheesh pardon my errors above. this victory for the zionist also must have killed my spell checking ability

/must not blog and watch football

#280 AisA

Since I've come to understand the liberal mind, I'll answer for them.

It's quite simple...He's not George Bush.

Gods let this be true. May this psychotic bastard burn in the fires of evey hell known to man. Miserable POS.

I'm with an earlier poster on this thread in saying if this turns out to be true I will personally toast this c#%ksucker to eternal damnation with liberal doses of Booze and Pork rinds.

#256 Beagle

Ahem. :) On a serious note, I agree with your #259 and do not believe he is dead,as much as I would like to.

To any of our lizards in London, the source of those strange strangling sounds emanating from Broadcasting House in Portland Place were the staff, trying to decide how to deal with this information Index ranks Middle East freedom

Notice which country is first (shocka!:) and how they manage not to mention it at all in the body of the article. I guess they think no one will actually look at the chart! The article is a poster child for al-Beeb's predjudice.

278 MJ

People ask me why I focus on putting the blame for my son's tragic and atrocious end on the Bush administration. They ask: "Don't you blame the five men who killed him?" I have answered that I blame them no more or less than the Bush administration, but I am wrong: I am sure, knowing my son, that somewhere during their association with him these men became aware of what an extraordinary man my son was. I take comfort that when they did the awful thing they did, they weren't quite as in to [sic] it as they might have been. I am sure that they came to admire him.

Bingo

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My statement was embellishing what this was...NO what I said, "Zarqawi got to know my son", was not what Michael Berg stated.