Pentagon: Top Zarqawi Aide Killed

[ECH1969]

The No. 2 al Qaeda leader in Iraq was killed Sunday night, U.S. officials say. Abu Azzam, reportedly the deputy to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, was shot during a house rain in Baghdad, according to Pentagon officials.

As the aide to Zarqawi, Azzam was reportedly in control of financing foreign fighters coming into Iraq, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

According to Pentagon officials coalition troops raided the house in response to a tip. When Azzam opened fire, these officials say, he was killed with troops' return fire.

In related developments: The Senate would give President Bush $50 billion more for war in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a $440 billion defense spending measure a panel approved Monday.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml
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Another 50 billion?

[sarcasmo]

1. If Cindy gets any bigger they are going to claim Osamma is dead.

[still_one]

2. wow that is better than number three

[sabra]

3. I was expecting The Onion as the source :-)

[tocqueville]

4. the amount of top aides this man has is amazing

must have a broad definition of "top"

[Caution]

5. So how many Number 2's and 3's is that now?

Amazing that we keep killing the "right-hand" guys but never the actual boogeymen. I wonder how long it will be before it turns out that this guy isn't actually number 2 but in fact once saw a picture of someone who claimed to have heard the name "zuchinni" somewhere.

[struggle4progress]

34. Here's a few:

Zarqawi 'aide' captured in Iraq
('top aide' Umar Baziyani 4 June 2004)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3777353.stm

Aide to militant al-Zarqawi reportedly killed
('spiritual leader of the most active insurgency group in Iraq' Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami 22 Sept 2004)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6069963/

US nabs Zarqawi aide in Iraq as government talks again with Fallujah
('senior member' Hamid Fayed al-Jumaili 23 Oct 2004)
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041023161649.w0g9ukxy.html
"... The wife of the man .. said he was a farmer ..."

Killer Zarqawi aide arrested
('top aide' Mohammed Najm Ibrahim aka Mohammed Najm 24 Feb 05)

Iraqis Nab Zarqawi Aide
('key figure' Talib Mikhlif Arsan Walman al-Dulaymi aka Abu Qutaybah 26 February 2005)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148702,00.html

U.S. Forces Holding Senior Zarqawi Operative
('first American captured fighting for the Iraqi insurgency' ??? 1 April 2005)
" ... Officials declined to provide his name or hometown or identify him other than to say he functioned as Zarqawi's emissary to insurgent groups in several cities in Iraq ..."

Al-Zarqawi aide captured, says American military
('aide' Ammar al-Zubaydi aka Abu Abbas 8 May 2005 )
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/08/iraq.main/

Gains seen after new arrest of al-Zarqawi aide
('close aide' Ghassan Amin 9 May 2005)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7789162/

Iraqi Forces Arrest Key Zarqawi Aide
('the most wanted terrorist in north-central Iraq' Mullah Kamel al-Aswadi 26 May 2005)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/5/25/154233.shtml

Top Zarqawi Aide Nabbed in Mosul
('most trusted operations agent in all of Iraq' Mohammed Khalif Shaiker 16 June 2005)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159763,00.html

'Zarqawi aide killed in ambush'
('senior aide' Abu Zubair 15 August 2005)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4152348.stm
(aka Muhammad Salah Sultan)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F8EA829A-7B07-480B-BCD0-91D6A0F0E1DB.htm

[Scurrilous]

40. LOL

That's a great list.

Don't forget we also got Zarqawi's laptop. That was a banner day!

[thecodewarrior]

49. Dude,

That just made the front page of my website with credit to you.
http://thecodewarrior.com/

How many times have we heard of a #2 guy being turned over from Pakistan just when neocons need to jerk the news headline?

Good compilation.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

59. what about all those "LIEUTENANTS"? .the ones with the Lieutenant stripes.

I'd bet you could also gather a long list of those so called "lietenants"-
-I guess the word "AID" is their latest "term"-

[entanglement]

60. Freeper logic: Get the right-hand man first, and

the guy you want is to his left. See how simple it is!

[VWolf]

6. Again???

These "aides" must be cats, given how many lives they've had.

[SillyGoose]

7. Again? How many times have they gotten a #2 Al Qaeda guy?

:crazy:

[nguoihue]

47. How many

911 "masterminds" have we arrested? Gee, here I had thought UBL mastermined everything from that cave up there in the Hindu Kush.

[thebigidea]

8. so we know next to nothing about this guy...

... yet they have his organizational flowchart down pat?

Bunch of lying assholes...

[Arkansas Granny]

18. Good analysis of the situation.

[Avalux]

9. NO. 2 Al Qaeda leader in Iraq......

how does he fit into the overall Al Qaeda operation as financier and top Zarqawi aid? How many Al Qaeda are in Iraq? How many in relation to the Iraqi citizens who are fighting?

My point - that headline means nothing. Garbage.

Meanwhile..Rushed Constitution points Iraq to Civil War x(

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4891275

[VegasWolf]

10. Again?? How many more top aides are there?? nt

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. Zarqawi Must Be A George Foreman Fan

I guess, like George Foreman naming all his sons George Foreman, Zarqawi must have named ALL his lieutenants NUMBER TWO.

[lakeguy]

12. again! how many "top" aides does this guy have...

he must have his own temp service just to keep them in fresh supply!

[ElectroPrincess]

22. Hell, he's got a whole platoon of "second in command" just

to help "bump" those irritating stories about anti-war protesters off of the front page.

Too funny, even the press is yawning at this ump-teen-th 2nd in Command to da "cat of nine lives" (and one leg!) Al Zarqawi. Bugga Bugga Boo! :P

[Lerkfish]

13. How many frickin number 2's are there? Where's patrick McGoohan?

"who is number 1?"
"I am the new number 2. You are number 6"
"I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!"

heh. "the prisoner" never resonated so well. he was ahead of his time, clearly.

[yellowcanine]

14. To be fair, I think some of the times it was his "right hand man" that

they got. And everyone knows that terrorists have the ability to grow a new right hand just as soon as the old one is cut off.

[agingdem]

15. Killed?

Again?!!!

[Selteri]

16. Is this kie Zarkawi being killed or missing limbs? NT

[0007]

17. Wow! Who woulda gussed it? Why do THEY think it is important

that we know this rot. Or as George Galloway would say, "pack of lies"

[matt819]

19. Ho hum

You know, with all these "top aides" being killed or captured, you would think al-Qaeda would cease to be a force to be reckoned with and that we are making a dent in the so-called war on terror. But it seems that there as many "top aides" in al-Qaeda as there are * cronies in Washington, so no matter how many are killed or captured, there are simply too many others right behind them.

And while I'm on the subject, does anyone here really believe the FBI director when he reports that thanks to FBI intervention an L.A. jihad has been prevented. And this was due to information obtained in the course of gas station robberies. Excuse me? This sounds far more like terrorist- wannabes than gen-u-wine homegrown jihadists.

I would think that even those remaining in this sorry excuse for an administration would get tired of these antics. Forget shame for a moment. I couldn't stand the duplicity and utter inaninity.

[StrafingMoose]

20. After more than 2 years...

These guys are still operating? Riiiiight. Anyone trying to do this Zarqawi thing inside USA (for example), no matter how much money, would be arrested and terminated within months.

[BeachBuckeye]

21. Is that 40 or 50 "top aides" killed now?

n/t

[lcordero2]

23. who was killed again? Emmanuel Goldstein? who?

[keopeli]

24. KOOL-AID: I figured it was about time for another Zarqawi aid to be killed

Here are other recent Zarqawi aid deaths:

June 27, 2005 - Zarqawi aid killed
http://63.247.134.60/~pobbs/archives/000962another_top_zarqawi_aid_killed_in_iraq.html

May 25, 2005 - Zarqawi aid killed
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-25-voa56.cfm

October 26, 2004 - Zarqawi aid killed
http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=40753

And here's one of Zarqawi himself being killed.
March 4, 2004 - Zarqawi killed
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084/

How many top Zarqawi aids exist? And how many lives does Zarqawi have?

Better question: What nincompoop would continue to believe this crap?

[jobycom]

25. The top guys of Al-Queda are like the drummers for Spinal Tap

Who would want that job, as often as we kill them?

I wonder if the Pentagon knows that no one believes them anymore.

[blackhorse]

46. Exactly,

. . . these guys make the security types on the original Star Trek series look long-lived by comparison!

Cheers

BH

[thecodewarrior]

51. LOL

Now hiring.

[maxsolomon]

26. if you kill #2, then #3 is now #2. #4 is now #3.

this way, you have an endless supply of right-hand men to kill.

[Frederik]

27. Number 2 again

[brentspeak]

28. How many "number 2's" does Zarqawi have? (n/t)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

29. #2? NOT a #3? They are always capturing #3s.

They must be getting desperate. That, plus all that bad news from Iraq.
Hey, what's $50 billion among friends?

[Historic NY]

30. That guys got more aides than Bush has cronies in the W.H.

What Number 2 are we up to now.........Do you think they will ever get the number 10th aide?

[Rex]

31. Hey look we killed somebody important!

Give us 50 billion extra dollars? Please? Suckers!

[UpInArms]

32. I wonder if it took all of the 250,000 bullets to "kill" a Zarqari aide?

n/t

[llmart]

33. OK. Now this is getting laughable.

Does anyone believe this shit any more? Even the lemmings have got to see through this propaganda.

[Hardrada]

35. They show as little imagination in this propaganda bit

as they did in the planning for the invasion and occupation. Does arrogance generate stupidity as well as being a by-product of it. They can't to the well much longer with this phony tale.

[WhiteTara]

36. I feel so sorry for all those Number 2 guys out there

I can't believe there are so many #2s. Never number 10 or 5 or 4 or 3
always number 2. They really need to refuse that position!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

37. Of course two weeks ago Zarkowi himself was killed

again for the fifth or sixth time. So it is far too soon to kill him again. So it was time for his top aide to buy the farm this week. (yawn)

[pinniped]

38. Did he have a freakin' #2 tattooed on his biceps?

So, this guy is not confirmed to be al-Zarqawi's #2 bad dude.

--Abu Azzam, reportedly the deputy to Abu Musab al Zarqaw--

--As the aide to Zarqawi, Azzam was reportedly in control of financing foreign fighters coming into Iraq,--

That's because there are literally millions of lieutenants, #2, and #3 bad dudes.

--What effect this will have on the insurgency remains to be seen. In the past, key Zarqawi lieutenants have been killed or captured without any decrease in the number of suicide bombings.--

[daleo]

39. It sounds like another load of number two. n/t

[BiggJawn]

41. AGAIN??? This is what, the #8 #2? n/t

[Qibing Zero]

42. The responses to this post are greatness.

Haven't laughed this hard at a DU post in a while. ;)

[drfresh]

43. This headline repeats itself every 2 weeks

I swear to God. Cue the propaganda machines, please.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

44. Not getting many #23's or #7's.

Just #2's and #3's.

:rofl:

Absurd.

[ucmike]

45. he tells all his guys that they are the real "top aide"

then he makes them promise not to talk to the other guys about it because they get jealous.

[SoCalDem]

48. Hmmmmm that would be what?? The 15th "top aide"??

:)

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[thecodewarrior]

52. A number seven don't sound impressive

#2 is the shit.

[Rhiannon12866]

53. Zarqawi aide killed in Iraq

Staff and agencies
Tuesday September 27, 2005

The second-in-command of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Azzam, has been shot and killed by US-led forces in Baghdad, the US military confirmed today.
Azzam, a financier and religious aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was shot and killed on Sunday while hiding out in a high-rise apartment building in the capital.

"We had a tip from an Iraqi citizen that led us to him," said Lieutenant Colonel Steve Boylan, a spokesman for the US military in Iraq. "It was a joint US-Iraqi operation. We've been tracking him for a while."

The New York Times reported that CIA operatives were involved in the operation that led to Azzam's killing, but Lt Col Boylan could not confirm that.

It is also not known what nationality Azzam was, or whether he was alone when he was shot and killed.

Al-Qaida in Iraq, which is linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, is one of the most feared militant groups in the country and claims responsibility for many of the deadliest attacks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1579267,00.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

54. watch for Mr Azzam to die again in three momths

oy vey... am I cynical these days or what?

[Rhiannon12866]

58. Hey, I'm cynical too. But I got this as an alert from "The Guardian,"

And trust them more than most. But I was once led to believe that Zarqawi didn't even really exist, that he was just a composite of many, no matter how many times CNN showed his pix. I've changed my mind on that, but still believe little. After all, only 2000 protesters are reported to have showed up in D.C., this past weekend. I know people who were there and know, as we all do, that this is being vastly under-reported.:shrug::grr:

[dutchdoctor]

55. So is this the fourth or the fifth number two guy to have been killed?

Strange thing is, as long as al Qaida is bigger than one man, there will always be a number two guy...

[shockingelk]

56. Wack-a-mole

Got one down, another pops up.

[are_we_united_yet]

57. Let me guess...

the number one #2 man?

[laylah]

61. Just how many

2nd's does Zarqawi have? :shrug: :crazy: Maybe as many legs and lives as he has? :silly:

Jenn