Search for Al-Zarqawi Highlights Problems (we don't know where he is?)

[sabra]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5045200,00.html

Search for Al-Zarqawi Highlights Problems

Wednesday June 1, 2005 5:16 PM


By KATHERINE SHRADER

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A flurry of recent reports and rumors about whether the top insurgent leader in Iraq was wounded or even killed left U.S. officials uncertain about his fate while underscoring how difficult it is to track terrorists.

An audio tape released Monday that supposedly contained the voice of the insurgent leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said he had suffered a ``light wound'' after combat with U.S. troops and was healthy again. U.S. intelligence officials said they believed the message was authentic.

On Wednesday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military doesn't know where al-Zarqawi is. ``Our assessment is that he has been wounded. The severity, I don't know that we know that,'' he said.

U.S. defense and intelligence agencies are thought to be using a variety of tools to gather information on the insurgency and its leaders, including electronic eavesdropping, unmanned aircraft and old-fashioned human spying.

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[llmart]

1. Osama who????

Why aren't we going after Osama? Isn't he the guy who we are supposed to be going after? Man, I'm soooo confused. If we just get Osama, we'll all be safe. Isn't that what my fearless leader said right after September 11th? OH, and by the way, how's that deck of playing cards Bush keeps in his top drawer? What happened to that story?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. You wouldn't expect that the incompetent boobs in the military

and spy agencies to actually find these guys would you? The focus of their attention goes like this: Fill out the time card, who's turn is it to bring the coffee and donuts, where are we going for lunch, who's turn is it to carpool tomorrow.

[Az_lefty]

3. For Pete's sake, we're back to this now?

I thought this one legged terrorist was almost dead.
:hide:

[Up2Late]

4. Yeah, BUT Hey, they read his Blog!

At least that was Jon Stewart's reaction last night on The Daily Show, reacting to Gen. Myers comments that they read his website. :crazy:

[LiberalVoice]

5. I am so happy to have the Daily Show back.

It was a great start after their little vacation.

[DulceDecorum]

6. Interrogate Zaqawi's webmaster

or maybe even Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki.
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/gadahn.htm

You know him,
he is the Al qaeda spokesman for al Qaeda,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1142704/posts
aka Adam Pearlman,
who appears to have studied politics at UCLA
and come up with a brilliant idea for helping skew the election away from Kerry
after the al Qaqaa ammo dump fiasco hit the news.
Unfortunately, people were unwilling to accept the word of this nice Jewish boy who sneered to his countrymen that "the streets of America will run red with blood."
http://www.kron4.com/global/story.asp?s=2488185&ClientType=Print
Therefore, Osama himself had to come out with a "nice little gift."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/247753p-212149c.html

We cannot locate Osama,
but the website is hosted via the US
and Adam Pearlman is able to make phone calls from within the US.
What say we go to the DoJ and task the patriots there to yank him out of his corner office and hold his feet to the fire?
Or maybe we should have a nice little chat with one Rita Katz.
http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications5604&Category=publications&Subcategory=0

Perhaps even more significantly, Katz said, the Azzam tape appears to have been made by a shadowy video-production company called Sahab that is traditionally used by Al Qaeda. If true, that would suggest that the Azzam and bin Laden tapes were related, and should perhaps be viewed as two parts of the same message.
http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=inthenews6004&Category=inthenews&Subcategory=0