Al-Zarqawi Blamed for Spike in Iraq Deaths

[Roland99]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050616/D8AOVVJG0.html

Jordanian-born terrorist leader Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi's hope to provoke sectarian war suffered a setback Thursday when the Shiite-led parliament and leaders of the disaffected Sunni Arab minority, which is thought to provide the backbone of the insurgency, agreed on a process for drafting Iraq's constitution.

Elsewhere, dozens of hooded insurgents surrounded a downtown mosque in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, to prevent a meeting of local politicians and tribal leaders on the country's new charter and reconciliation efforts.

"We told them to leave Iraq's issues for us, we are the only ones who can liberate Iraq by fighting infidels and not by holding conferences. And instead of spending money for this conference, they have to give it to us to buy weapons to help our fighting against the Americans," a masked man told Iraqi reporters outside the empty mosque.

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Don Alston took aim at al-Zarqawi, saying the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq is most responsible for the nearly 1,100 violent deaths since the Shiite-led government took office seven weeks ago.

:eyes:



I'm losing confidence in our military. If Generals are spouting lame-ass propaganda like this crap, we're fucking doomed.

[maddezmom]

1. but, but, but...isn't he dead or wounded

again? :shrug: Next up if poll numbers don't go up "a newly released tape of Osama" and terrya alert. :eyes:

[maddezmom]

15. guess what CNN just announced...SBL #2 just released a tape

:eyes:

[chelsea0011]

2. And how do they know the number 3 guy isn't causing the bombings?

[ElectroPrincess]

3. This guy, Al-Zarqawi, is the Anti-Elvis = He's Everywhere!

-----------------
By Mojo Nixon
http://www.geocities.com/multielvi/mojo.html

Let me tell you.
Wellllllll...

Elvis is everywhere,
Elvis is everything,
Elvis is everybody,
Elvis is still the King.

Elvis is in everybody out there.
Everybody's got Elvis in them.
Everybody except one person that is,
Yeah, one person!
The evil opposite of Elvis,
The Anti-Elvis!
Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in him,
lemme tell ya.

[xray s]

4. it frosts my ass that the military had him captured but Bush let him go

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410270007

Media largely silent on WSJ report: Bush admin "stopped the military from attacking" Zarqawi before the start of the Iraq war
The media has remained largely silent on The Wall Street Journal's October 25 report that President George W. Bush's administration passed up several opportunities to attack and potentially kill terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before the start of the Iraq war. The Journal article expanded on a March 2 NBC Nightly News report suggesting that the administration passed up chances to attack Zarqawi; the report noted that several former administration officials and military officers have questioned the administration's decision to hold off on such attacks. While the Bush administration has repeatedly called attention to Zarqawi, their failure to attack him in 2002 has gone virtually unreported. Zarqawi has recently made headlines in connection with the killing of 50 U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers and is, according to the Associated Press and The New York Times, "believed responsible for hundreds of killings

[ConfuZed]

7. Whats even more shameful they had Santa in 2003 n/t

:sarcasm:

[Karenina]

16. Don't forget Poland!

:silly:

[Roland99]

10. Can this be used against him in the impeachment hearings?

[LynnTheDem]

5. The "leader" of America is the most responsible for ALL the deaths in Iraq

And that's a fact.

[pinniped]

6. The Goebbels Ministry of Propaganda lives.

.

[Frederik]

8. Well, obviously

It's all the bogeyman's fault.

[leftchick]

9. Blame Bush**

He is the one responsible for ALL DEATHS in Iraq. Blaming anyone else is pure fantasy.

[Shadder]

11. What?

Alive AGAIN?

[tuvor]

12. Al-Zarqawi Blamed for Spike in Iraq Deaths (Sorry for the dupe.)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. general on Thursday blamed
Iraq's recent spike in bloodshed on a terrorist leader condoning the killing of fellow Muslims, while a suicide car bomber rammed into a truck in Baghdad, killing at least eight police officers and wounding 25 others. The U.S. military also reported that five Marines and a sailor were killed Wednesday near the volatile western city of Ramadi.

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U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Don Alston took aim at al-Zarqawi, saying the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq is most responsible for the nearly 1,100 violent deaths since the Shiite-led government took office seven weeks ago.

"With Zarqawi's push recently, we certainly see the fantastic rise in the number of civilians killed, given that he has proclaimed that taking out civilians is an acceptable thing," said Alston, spokesman for the U.S.-led international military force in Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=Agx24s3WRTQij2EkBDggUR4DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[Maple]

13. Which is pretty good for a guy

who had a sucking chest wound and was near death two weeks ago.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Isn't that the guy we killed several times, who most recently

was mortally wounded, and who is believed to have lost several legs? Man, that guy is GOOD.

[struggle4progress]

17. Yep. When he lost his leg, he went to Iraq for help and through the ..

.. miracle of modern surgery his problem became a bad sinus infection. Before that, he was apparently simultaneousaly in jail in Iran and not in jail in Iran. A few weeks ago, after being mortally wounded in Iraq, immediately escaped to Iran, where he suddenly became good-as-new, and then presto-change-oh he returned to Iraq, good as new!

Say! we're getting our news from the CIA ...

[Richard Steele]

20. With all the injuries he's had, he's lucky modern medicine is so advanced!

Artist's concept of AlZarqawi after latest emergency surgery:

[Chicago Democrat]

18. Poem for Al Zarquawi - Scarlet Pimpernel!

They seek him here!
They seek him there!
They seek Zarquawi every where!

Be he in heaven or
Be he in hell?
Zarquawi the
Scarlet Pimpernel!

[pissed_American]

19. For a one legged guy he sure does get around.

:bounce:

[jamesinca]

21. I thought this guy died 4 times already

One of his legs fell off, he had almost been caught once, he changed his name to lucky etc.... Let us not forget that they last 97 or so spikes of activity have shown how desparate and beat the insurgents were. They were near collapse a year ago I think.

My favorite of all time is the front page of the NY Times 1/20/66, the article that quotes all the experts saying how Viet Nam will end that year because the Vietnamese will not be able to withstand the superior Americans etc.... They were wrong in '66 and they are wrong in '05

Same thing, different war. Same war, different decade.

[saigon68]

22. U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Don Alston IS A LAP DOG

FOR THE BUSH CRIMINALS---- BUT THEN----

Maybe killing a few thousand Mothers and children of the Iraqi citizens

Might piss them off enough to take a crack at our SUPERMAN HIDES.