Praise the Lord! Zarqawi's Leg amputated in 2002, today he walks!

[kpete]

Praise the Lord! Leg amputated in 2002, today he walks!

The alleged amputation, that apparently wasn't, isn't just a small piece of medical trivia. The "fact" that Zarqawi supposedly was able to receive treatment in Baghdad with Saddam's blessing was offered (believe it or not) as another "smoking gun" that Saddam, the secular socialist, was in fact in bed with the Islamic radicals of al-Qaeda.

Some al-Qaida leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al-Qaida leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks.
-- President Bush. Cincinnati speech, Oct. 7. 2002.

Zarqawi's activities are not confined to this small corner of north east Iraq. He traveled to Baghdad in May 2002 for medical treatment, staying in the capital of Iraq for two months while he recuperated to fight another day.
-- then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, U.N. briefing, Feb. 5, 2005.

From Iran Zarqawi traveled to Iraq in May 2002, where his wounded leg was amputated and the limb fitted with a prosthetic device. He spent two months recovering in Baghdad, at which time "nearly two dozen extremists converged on Baghdad and established a base of operations there."
-- Matthew A. Levitt, senior fellow in terrorism studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, National Review Online, Feb. 6, 2003.

Miracles really do happen -- especially over in the Holy Land. Because we have just watched the video of Iraq-based terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and, lo and behold, the once-crippled man seems to have grown two healthy legs. The 30-minute video, in which Zarqawi surfaced publicly to rally Sunnis and foreign fighters behind the insurgency, shows Zarqawi running through the desert, crouching to fire a machine gun, even sitting cross-legged in a meeting -- with no hint of the prosthetic limb that he allegedly received with the aid of Saddam Hussein.

more at:
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/003169.html

[Left Below]

1. Why does God hate Christians?

Manifest Destiny was His idea, right?

[rpgamerd00d]

2. pwned!

Good job.

[CottonBear]

3. That's amazing! The Iraqis can regrow limbs! Brilliant.

:sarcasm:

[reichstag911]

6. A skill they'll need...

...as long as the "Holy One" is in charge here.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Riverbend's April Fools day posting says ...

10. "Guess what?! They caught Zarqawi!!!" (This will only work on Iraqis who actually think he exists.)
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

[Botany]

5. Maybe # 3 gave him his legs when he knew that the Ameicans ....

.... were going to get him. Or was that # 2? Or which key member of al Qaeda?

[berni_mccoy]

7. Kick!

[htuttle]

8. That was nothing! He died and came back to life several times!

Leaflet Says Extremist Al-Zarqawi Killed
Thursday, March 4, 2004; 10:10 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29777-2004Mar4.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Jordanian extremist suspected of bloody suicide attacks in Iraq was killed some time ago in U.S. bombings and a letter outlining plans for fomenting sectarian war is a forgery, a leaflet signed by a dozen alleged insurgent groups said. A senior U.S. official denied that claim.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq "during the American bombing there," according to the eight-page leaflet circulated this week in Fallujah, a city 30 miles west of Baghdad that is a hotbed of anti-U.S. insurgency activity.

...

Maybe twice!

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Killed in Matador?
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/05/abu_musab_al-zarqawi_killed_in_matador/

The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is “serious injured, possibly dead” according to Colonel Fouad Hani Hassan, commander of the fifth division of the Iraqi armed forces, cited by ‘Elaph’, a popular website in the Arab world. Al-Zarqawi, considered al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, is believed to have been injured in the major offensive US-led forces have been carrying out in the western Anbar province over the last few days.

...

Maybe THREE TIMES!!!

Report: al-Zarqawi may have been killed in Mosul
Nov. 20, 2005 18:45 | Updated Nov. 20, 2005 21:01
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475588009&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The Elaph Arab media website reported on Sunday that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror group, may have been killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

The unconfirmed report claimed that the explosions occurred while coalition forces surrounded the house in which al-Zarqawi was hiding. American and Iraqi forces are looking into the report.
...

[helderheid]

10. Wow - that's amazing! :)

[KeepItReal]

12. That fool is tougher than Tupac

:mad:

"Not even Bruce Lee could whoop a bullet's ass" - Mystikal

[underpants]

17. Same with Saddam and " Chemical Ali"

Some Evidence Suggests Saddam Dead: Bush
Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, April 25, 2003
http://english.people.com.cn/200304/25/eng20030425_115783.shtml
US President Bush said in a television interview Thursday that there is some evidence suggesting Saddam Hussein is either dead or "at the very minimum was severely wounded." Bush also said US troops would remain in Iraq "as long as necessary."

DNA tests after missiles strike 'Saddam convoy'
Sunday June 22, 2003
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,982710,00.html
American specialists were carrying out DNA tests last night on human remains believed by US military sources to be those of Saddam Hussein and one of his sons, The Observer can reveal.

Officials suspect Saddam was killed in bombing
Posted 4/10/2003
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-04-10-saddam-usat_x.htm
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence has no clear information on Saddam Hussein's whereabouts, but the betting in the Pentagon's executive offices is that the Iraqi dictator lies dead under a pile of rubble in Baghdad, according to defense and intelligence officials.

But the theory given most credence is that Saddam died in Monday's bomber attack on a home near a Baghdad restaurant.
"The official take from the Pentagon is that Saddam is 'unfound,' " a senior defense intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. "Most along the E-Ring (the Pentagon's outermost hallway and executive suite) think he's under the rubble."
A Defense Department intelligence official said an abrupt end to an electronic intelligence intercept of Iraqi leadership conversations indicated that Saddam and his sons were at the site at the time of the bombing.
"The signal died when the bombs hit," the official said.

Saddam Captured 'Like a Rat' in Raid
Sunday, December 14, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105706,00.html

Saddam Hussein arrested in Iraq
Sunday, 14 December, 2003, 17:04 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3317429.stm
______________________________________________________________
Pentagon: 'Chemical Ali' Killed in Attack
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/7/204930.shtml

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon believes "Chemical Ali," Saddam Hussein's cousin who ordered a chemical attack on Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988, is dead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Monday.

'Chemical Ali' reported dead
Monday, 7 April, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2925375.stm


Officials: Body of 'Chemical Ali' Found in Basra
Monday, April 07, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83383,00.html


'Chemical Ali' Captured in Iraq
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95314,00.html


'Chemical Ali' in U.S. custody
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/21/sprj.irq.chemical.ali/
DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali," is in U.S. custody, military officials tell CNN.

[BuyingThyme]

9. Praise be.

[tatertop]

11. The Flying Spaghetti Monster shows many mercies!

[gatorboy]

13. When did this guy become vice-bad guy of the world?

One second, I never heard of the guy and the next he was all over the place.
I always thought he was trumped up as THE NEXT BIG evil doer just so Bush could hide the disgrace of not catching Bin Laden. Zarqawi certainly seemed to have picked up alot of terror brownie points quick when we were suppose to be hunting for Osama...

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. lol!!!! It's also a miracle that he came back from the dead! In the

beginning of the war, several tribal chiefs in the Kurdish north signed an affadavit that he was killed during bombing!!!!! :rofl:

Zarqawi & Bin Laden (miraculously well looking with severe kidney disease)= Emmanuel Goldstein (Ninety Eighty-four boogey man)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10309.htm

snip------------------------------------------------

Sheikh Jawad Al Kalesi, the imam of the al-Kazemiya mosque in Baghdad, told Le Monde newspaper: “I don’t think that Abu Musab Al Zarqawi exists as such. He’s simply an invention by the occupiers to divide the people.”

Kalesi claimed that Zarqawi was killed in the Kurdish northern region of Iraq at the beginning of the US-led war on the country as he was meeting with members of the Ansar Al-Islam group affiliated to Al Qaeda.

“His family in Jordan even held a ceremony after his death. Abu Musab Al Zarqawi is therefore a ploy used by the Americans, an excuse to continue the occupation. It’s a pretext so they don’t leave Iraq.”

And another one claiming he was killed!

http://www.buzztracker.org/2004/03/06/cache/97113.html

This an AP Article
Alleged leaflet by Iraqi militants claims al-Zarqawi is dead

By Lee Keath, Associated Press, 3/4/2004 10:07

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) A Jordanian extremist suspected of bloody suicide attacks in Iraq was killed some time ago in U.S. bombings and a letter outlining plans for fomenting sectarian war is a forgery, a leaflet signed by a dozen alleged insurgent groups said. A senior U.S. official denied that claim.

Continued at above link

[Roland99]

15. Wait a min! Just 5 mos. ago Zarqawi’s dead (again)? 3rd time’s a charm!

http://www.conjur.com/blog/2005/11/20/zarqawis-dead-again-3rd-times-a-charm-eh/

Lost a leg in 2002 (but US later changed their tune)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FJ15Ak02.html

Killed in March 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29777-2004Mar4.html

Came back to life to personally behead Nick Berg (post-Abu Ghraib photo release)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136076/posts
(interesting as no one in that video appeared to be handicapped - Zarqawi had one leg amputated)
http://wais.stanford.edu/Individuals/nickberg.htm

Killed again in Oct. 2004
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/10-17a-04.asp

Seriously injured or killed in May 2005
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/10500
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.165740392&par=0

Zarqawi shot in chest/lung in May 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4579885.stm

Killed and body in Falluja cemetery in June 2005
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.173437230&par=0

And now killed again in Nov. 2005

Baghdad imam says Zarqawi killed at beginning of US invasion
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/73570F02-EA07-492F-9E04-C080950DF180.htm

Backed up by this March 2004 article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084/



http://members.optushome.com.au.nyud.net:8090/hark/bknight3.jpg
Here’s his latest picture (he’s on the right)

Reminds me of Klinger in that one M*A*S*H episode where he had various family members dead or dying or getting married. :D

[Supersedeas]

29. Snake Pliskin or Emmanuel Goldstein (1984) - Two Minutes of Hate

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. Naw. It just looks real.

We can rebuild him. Make him stronger. Faster.

[SoCalDem]

20. You KNOW you want to hear it

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/play/play.cfm/sound_iid.19066

[RaleighNCDUer]

24. There he goes!

[underpants]

18. INCREDIBLE!!!

Zarqawi Eclipsing Bin Laden in Prominence
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119700,00.html
In 1999, after being released from jail in Jordan, Zarqawi formed an alliance with bin Laden allowing Zarqawi to operate a training camp in Afghanistan for Arab fighters committed to the overthrow of Jordan's moderate monarchy.
During the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Zarqawi is believed to have been badly wounded in a U.S. airstrike and fled to Iran. Later, he ended up in Baghdad, where Saddam's regime allowed him to recuperate for several months after having his leg amputated.

But check out how CNN spins itself into the ground trying to cover for Bush five weeks earlier
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/06/us.zarqawi/
A U.S. official said Tuesday that al-Zarqawi traveled to Baghdad in May 2002 for treatment of a leg injury but, contrary to previous reports, appears not to have had a leg amputated. The official would not discuss the reason for the change in assessment.
Al-Zarqawi, an associate of Osama bin Laden, had been named by the Bush administration as an al Qaeda member who fled to Iraq from Afghanistan in May 2002 for medical treatment and then stayed to organize terror plots. He came to Iraq with about two dozen al Qaeda terrorists, according to the administration.
Before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and other administration officials pointed to intelligence that they said suggested al-Zarqawi had had his leg amputated in Baghdad.

Unfortunately a YEAR before that report CNN said:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/29/sprj.irq.terrorist.capture/index.html
Zarqawi was said to have received medical treatment in Baghdad in May and June of 2002 after being wounded in Afghanistan during the war. His leg was amputated, U.S. officials say, by a surgeon in Iraq.

[leftofthedial]

19. there is no god but god

[noonwitch]

21. He must have a direct line to Benny Hinn

Or whatever similar character they have in fundamentalist Islam.

[bunkerbuster1]

22. Why don't the media report the GOOD NEWS from Eye-Rack?

We gots school-paintin' and limb regeneratin' going on and we don't hear nothin' about it in the Drive-By Media!

[leftchick]

23. Zarqawi was not associated with Bin Laden before the invasion

they were actually sort of competitors for followers. To say Zarqawi was part of the al-qaeda network is just plain wrong. But then everything they have alleged has been wrong.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

25. This sociopathic administration tried to use him as a justification to

invade. They were using Zarqawi and Rahman Yasin who was wanted in the first bombing of the WTC. The FBI had let him go from custody in NY. He was later imprisoned in Iraq and Leslie Stahl did a whole segment about him on 60 minutes and interviewed Tariq Aziz. The kicker is that Iraq offered to turn him over and the US didn't want him!

Here is a transcript of that interview
http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Covert_Actions/Iraq_Has_Offered_US_Extradition_of_WTC_Bomb_Suspect

Exclusive Interview:

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz: U.S. Rejects Yasin

by EastWest Record

Following is the transcript of the interview CBS 60 Minutes reporter
Lesley Stahl conducted with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz
on the motivations behind Iraq's offer to
hand over Abdul Rahman Yasin (the only terrorist not to be brought to
trial for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center) and American
refusal to receive him. Two offers were made by Iraq during the
Clinton Administration in 1994 and later to the Bush Administration
in 0ctober 2001. The latter offer was done through a third party,
later revealed by CBS 60 Minutes to be Egypt via the CIA. EastWest
Record has obtained this transcript form its sources in Iraq.

The transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

*

Aziz: Twice we asked them to come and take him and twice
they refused. Which means
that they are not sincere in what they are saying, they are not
honest in what they are saying.

We informed the American Government that we have important
information about that event <1993 bombing of the World Trade[br />Center]. If you are interested, send a team to Baghdad to get that
information.

They did not reply at all.

Stahl: But your information was vague.

Aziz: Yes but we showed out goodwill.

Stahl: But would you really expect them to respond to that?

Aziz: First of all I have to tell you that we feared that sending
Yasin back to Iraq after arresting him and interrogating him was a
sting operation.

Stahl: You... You thought that the Americans were trying to sting you
by sending...

Aziz: Yes, to tell people later on. Look this man that participated
in that event in now in Iraq. As they are doing now using many false
pretexts, you see, to hurt Iraq in their own way.

Stahl: To suggest that Iraq was involved in the bombing?

Aziz: Yes. Yes.

Stahl: You... You were very suspicious that he was some kind of
plant?

Aziz: We have the right to be suspicious of the American intentions.

Stahl: How did you get that word 2001] to the Americans?

Aziz: Through two parties; two governments. I am not going to mention
names because they asked us not to mention their names. But the
Americans know.

told the Americans that Yasin is in Iraq and that
the Iraqi authorities are ready to deliver him to the American
authorities if the American government sends a team to Baghdad. The
American government said, no, we are not going to send a team to
Baghdad but we are ready to receive him in the capital of that
government.

Stahl: Of this third country?

Aziz: We said, ok, we will take the man to the capital of that
country and deliver him to the American authorities. But, they should
sign a paper that they have received Yasin from the Iraqi authorities
in the presence of the third party. They refused to sign the paper
and therefore the delivery did not go through.

Stahl: And why did you insist on that?

Aziz: Because in every delivery there should be a proof.

Stahl: Like a FedEx package...

Aziz: That's it.

Stahl: If the third party signed the paper, if the third party said
we handed it over, it's not good enough?

Aziz: Ms. Stahl, if they are interested in Yasin, signing the paper
is not the most important matter for them. For us, it is important.
Why didn't they take him? Why did they refuse to sign that paper?

Stahl: You think that they would take him and not admit that you had
willingly handed him over?

Aziz: Yes and make a false story about it.

Stahl: They're are concerned that if they
agree to any deal, that you'll want to have a dialogue and a
negotiation. And they remember what happened when the inspectors came
and you said that the inspectors could go where they want and they
couldn't go where they wanted.

Aziz: What's wrong in dialogues, Ms. Stahl? In every international
crisis, all over history, people used to talk to each other. Enemies
talk to each other, even when you were at war with Vietnam and you
talked to the Vietnamese.

Stahl: But if this is what you hope to gain from your offer to turn
over Mr. Yasin...

Aziz: I am not ashamed of that.

Stahl: But that is true...

Aziz: We did what we think is correct to do.

Stahl: You what to strike a deal by handing over Yasin to the
Americans?

Aziz: These are fantasies, you see. We wanted to show our goodwill to
the American people first. Look, we talked to the third party, to the
friendly third party. We did not put political dialogue as a
condition.

Stahl: Is that deal still on the table?

Aziz: Yes, it is.

Stahl: It's an open invitation?

Aziz: Yes, it is.

Stahl: So, tomorrow, they could say fine.

Aziz: ok, let them come and take him the same
way that we suggested to them last October.

Stahl: All you want is a signature. A piece of paper that says that
we have taken Yasin.

Aziz: Yes... Because this is the professional way to do it.

Stahl: And that's all you want? Nothing else.

Aziz: Nothing else... nothing else.

*

[hunter]

26. That's Natalee Holloway's leg he walks on.

Now you know.

:hide:

[IChing]

27. 4 days after Rumsfeld said Osama and Zarqawi manipulate the news they rise

from the dead and walk again....praise jeebezus

"For one thing, Rumsfeld said it was important to "recognize that the terrorists, Zarqawi and bin Laden and Zawahiri, those people have media committees. They are actively out there trying to manipulate the press in the United States. They are very good at it. They're much better at (laughing) managing those kinds of things than we are.""

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IChing/29

[Roland99]

30. Nice catch!

[warrens]

28. My strong manly savior can beat up your weak little savior

Let's see Falwell get Jesus to regrow someone's leg!

[uppityperson]

31. we hates them for their prosthesis