Report: al-Zarqawi killed by explosions in Mosul

At least one Arab television media outlet reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

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

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475588009&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull



Anyone know if this is true?

until then, it's the JPost.

any of us know whose body it is? It's not like there is shortage of bodies in Iraq now days.

and he has parents and a sibling alive. DNA should do it.

that guy has more lives than Fritz the Cat

face saving strategy? :shrug:

I believe this is CIA psy-ops to continue our phased surrender and withdrawal from Iraq. Bush will say, "We've killed Zarqawi, held elections and defeated a dictator." Then we will RUN LIKE HELL (thankfully).

and again

Maybe there are a zillion of them!!!!

This like the Franceso Franco stories of the 1970's.

Ackroyd did that week after week on Weekend Update. Thanks for the reminder.

I guess we can start saying "Abu Musab al Zarqawi is still dead!"

Not only can I not remember the 60's, but the 70's are a little hazy too!

well, let's just say what happened in the 70's stayed in the 70's....

for Bush's numbers to go up. Better than an elevated terror alert

A U.S. and Iraqi raid on a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq safe house in Mosul sparked a three-hour firefight in which four insurgents and four policemen were killed and three guerrillas blew themselves up, said Gov. Duraid Kashmoulaof Nineveh province.

Iraqi and U.S. forces had suspected Abu Musab Zarqawi, leader of Iraq's most feared insurgent group, might be at the house, Kashmoula said. Zarqawi's whereabouts have been the topic of a stream of murky reports; U.S. military officials have said they believe Zarqawi has vowed not to be taken alive.

The U.S. military was examining the dead late Saturday, the governor said. U.S. military spokesmen in Baghdad said they had no information other than word of the firefight.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/19/AR2005111901120.html

When did they pick up a Zarqawi sample?

I remember reading an article in May about the military testing blood found at a hospital after a doctor said he treated Zarqawi at that hospital for a gunshot wound. They got the DNA from hair samples taken from Zarqawi's house in Jordan that match the DNA samples of hair found on his laptop we picked up in Febuary. Of course the DNA showed that the doctors story was bogus and I suspect this will be found to be wrong as well.

some other bits of stuff with no idea if any of the stuff belongs to the fictional multi-legged multi-lived bogeyman and then make a pronouncement just as the laying sack of shit in the white house is self destructing?


How Convenient.

20$ says it isn't him. Of course the media has to have something to chew on so they report on this crap.

Please.

for as long as we need him. Same with OSama. Kill the BoogeyMan, game over. What fun is that if you are a war profiteer and a Terra Fightin Presdent?

I assume they are blood relatives,
but I don't know that

It's well known that Zarqawi has family living in Jordan in a "high-walled house". No doubt DNA samples have already been obtained from cooperative family members.

Otherwise, this is not very specific.

We won the war in Iraq. Can the military come home now?

Let's go now...

Al-Zarqawi renounced by his Jordanian family
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1937434

that sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know.

the real issue is the civil war between the Shiites and the Sunni

mark my words

because of the ensueing power struggle

policies

No reason to stay now. Our job's finished.

Marvel Comics fans -- what was Hydra's motto?



Thanks to Bushie's ineptitude, it doesn't matter if they kill him, or Bin Laden, or whoever.

He has more lives than a cat! :crazy:

indestructible.

However, lets assume that the most likely fictional al zarqawi is now dead. So what? End of the insurgency? Freemon'n'moxy breaks out in Iraq? Finally our occupying army of heathen foreigners is welcomed with flowers? What?

Now can we get back to finding bin Laden?

Mz Pip
:dem:

Fig. 245234. Zarqawi eludes capture against crack coalition forces once again.

I hope they are right, but I am extremely skeptical

I also find it interesting that this comes out just when bush seems to be getting hit most in the polls

The reality is that Iraq is in a civil war which is independent of the son-of-a-bitch zarqawi

debka also reports the same thing:

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.

November 20, 2005, 8:28 PM (GMT+02:00)

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

The bodies they are trying to identify are of 7 men and one woman, who blew themselves up Sunday, Nov. 20, after their hideout in northern Iraq was under siege by a large US force, backed by tanks and helicopters. The bodies are burned black and unrecognizable. Four Iraqi security officers were killed and 10 injured in the operation


http://www.debka.com/

but haaretz reports nothing, and neither does aljezeera so I will withhold judgement until it is confirmed. In this case they will NOT confirm it unless it is true, because it will come right back to haunt them

Cool. Wonder how long before they resurrect him this time.

sympathizers, while Haaretz is NOT and says nothing about this

I believe they are trying to help ease the pressure on bush

I hope they did get the bastard, but I doubt it.

Remeber bush could have gotten the bastard on three different occaisions but instead decided to invade Iraq

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601

I think Richard Perle also had a close connection. In these matters, not an unbiased source.

sorry
double negative on purpose
:evilgrin: :sarcasm:

Man keeps popping up like a pairy dog.

War Is Peace
Freedom Is Slavery
Ignorance Is Strength

:hide:

to keep us in permanent war.

a newspaper run by American neocons.

Al-Zarqawi's death will have no impact on the insurgency!

Zarqawi has died more than once, then came back to life. The dude is awesome!

Like a cat then, it may finally be curtains for these reports. On the other hand, it may be as Mark Twain said:
"Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated" (or words to that effect).

I figure if this is for real, we have made a whole new set of enemies. What kind of retribution can we expect next? :scared:

Saturday 17 September 2005: Cleric says al-Zarqawi died long ago

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/73570F02-EA07-492F-9E04-C080950DF180.htm

June 2, 2005: IRAQ: FALLUJAH SHEIKH SAYS AL-ZARQAWI DIED ON FRIDAY

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.173437230&par=0

October 16, 2004: Zarqawi killed in Iraq?

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/10-17a-04.asp

November 08, 2004: Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in Falluja?

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/11-08d-04.asp

March 4, 2004: Leaflet Says Extremist Al-Zarqawi Killed

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

And I'm pretty sure he's been killed at least twice a year since 2002. Except that one time when we thought we killed him in Afganistan, but he just lost a leg, which he grew back.

Not bad for one legged dead guy.

...to blame stuff on.

Zarqawi was probably only responsible for about 20% of what was attributed to him. And whenever we bomb a wedding, or a playground full of kids, the Pentagon can trot out the "suspected alQaeda insurgent loyal to Zarqawi" label and paste it on whatever collateral damage gets fragged.

I'll bet a new terror leader will "emerge"...one with an easy to pronounce, and eee-vil sounding, name that the American public can be plenty afraid of.

I don't doubt that some guy named Zarqawi exists. I'll just bet he'd be surprised at how active he's been.

Hyernel
Suspected of Using Detergent

at lest until this is backed up by a credible source.

It's a story that never stops "breaking", after all. :evilgrin:

The story originated from Arab news sources.

Al-Zarqawi May Be Among Dead in Iraq Fight

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaida members died in a gunfight — some by their own hand to avoid capture. A U.S. official said Sunday that efforts were under way to determine if terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among the dead. snip

http://news.yahoo.com/

Jerusalem Post has misreported Zarqawi's death many times to date.

I suppose they'll get it right eventually...

hahahahahahahahahaha

like "Charley" was in Vietnam

Give me the body and then confirm it with DNA evidence and I'll believe it. Till then the son of a bitch is good and alive as far as I am concerned.

there's always another reason to keep fahtin the ne'erendin moron Terra.

I'll believe it when I see it... :eyes:

But, I'm gonna wait a few days to a week for hard confirmation.

By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
32 minutes ago



BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaida members died in a gunfight — some by their own hand to avoid capture. A U.S. official said Sunday that efforts were under way to determine if terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among the dead.

Insurgents, meanwhile, killed an American soldier and a Marine in separate attacks over the weekend, while a British soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the south.

In Washington, a U.S. official said the identities of the terror suspects killed in the Saturday raid was unknown. Asked if they could include al-Zarqawi, the official replied: "There are efforts under way to determine if he was killed."

Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

and they've caught bin Laden's No. 2 for like the 13th time.

Wonder how much longer they can prop up that poor corpse?

Give me facts....not speculation.

isn`t that guy ?

Some people just don't know when to quit.............

but if it is, good.

Pay no attention to Bush's confusion over doors and the failing Iraq policy!

Is this really worth posting? He dies every other week.

of al-Zarqawi reporting on his own death ... all true all new Fox

I'm SO sick of sending Mass cards and getting them returned.

I'm FED UP with sending a nice fruit basket to the family and not even getting as much as a thank-you note.

NO MORE FLOWERS.

So, please, DIE this time. For the forty-second time.

Hey, where's what's-his-name? You know, the tall guy attached the dialysis machine? Come on, you know who I'm talking about........

going on with that Lewinsky business?

That's so Jewish, I'd never send a Mass card.

I'm talking about the TALL guy.

Looks Jewish.

Isn't.

Torah or someplace like that.

I'll bet you he's dressed up as, you know, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, or somebody like that, and is living in L.A.

Passing.

former NBA player locked up in a remote area of Pakistan so he can use his identity and AmEx card.

Of course. Do something obvious right under their noses.

I hate AmEx. I hope he uses the hell out of that card.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

No tears here if one of the corpses really is al Zarqawi's. As much as I opposed the US invasion of Iraq, I had no illusions that the other side had nobody in its ranks but noble resistance fighters seeking solely to expel the US from their homeland and create a democratic secular republic free from foreign domination. I believe that al Zarqawi was a bad 'un, an author of death and mayhem directed not only at US and allied troops, but also at other Iraqi Sunnis, and also Kurds, Iraqi Shi'ites, Iraqi Christians, and other people in the Middle East.

Maybe in the afterlife he can spend part of Eternity with the deceased souls of the (expletives) in Washington who thought up the war and shoved it down our throats.

as much as he is a fundamentalist monotheistic terrorist murderer, zarqawi is a concept like bin laden. the genius of Al Queda (yeah, i said genius, look it up) is that it does not require a charismatic, brilliant leader to plan & execute its operations. individual cells, with tenuous links to other cells, simple technology, & widely distributed propaganda.

i hope it is true, but it won't be the end of this fight.

the only way to stop terrorism is to remove the motivation to terrorize.

Probably so since Bush's mind is too simplistic to comprehend that one man's death will not end the Iraqi insurgency or terrorism in the rest of the world.

in Iraq after the invasion--day after day after day--reports that turned out to be some barn with baking powder in it, or whatever (with the followup backpaged). It is merely a P.R. strategy to make it appear that there is SOME POINT to the current killing in Iraq. Every time they need to make that point, they "possibly" kill Zarqawi on the front page, and then bring him back to life later in the back pages.

It is so transparent! We are living through a DELUSION of a war, with real people getting killed--for WHAT? FOR WHAT?!

-------

On another matter, I think Rumsfeld & Co. intended a civil war all along. They can make side deals for oil--and possbily keep Halliburton contract fat--with the Kurds and the Shia, and then just pull back and let these two tribes kick the shit out of the Sunnis (the most educated, and most into civil society). A divided Iraq suits them fine, as it does Israel.

Much like the early looting (Rumsfeld: freedom = the freedom to loot). Planned, intentional. Chaos created the opportunities for major, major looting of American coffers.

We are not looking at incompetence. I have always said so. We are looking at DELIBERATE policy--and on the P.R. front, a strategy of massive, unmitigated lying.

I was CERTAIN he was killed this time! I am so bummed out. Once we get that Zarqawi fella, the Iraqi people will be free.

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military is conducting tests to determine whether terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among those killed in a weekend raid in northern Iraq, but a White House official called that prospect "highly unlikely."
Crazy thought maybe they don't want him dead. They know that the American people would say we won bring our troops home. Or is the truth to be told that we went to Iraq for Cheney big fat companies and Bushs oil. What do you guys think or am I way off base?

themselves if it is true, we will see.

But it's possible that Rummy's henchmen are setting America up for Zarqawi's "death" as part of a plan to withdraw all troops within the next 12 months. Bush can say, "We killed Zarqawi, caught Saddam and held elections. Mission Accomplished."

Believe it - if he's dead, their conquest is in serious political trouble. They WANT him alive. Both him and Bin Laden have likely been dead for a while. They WANT the fake "terrorist" threat so we won't realize it's the Iraqi's that are trying to kick out their conquerers....

It doesn't really matter to me. The fact of the matter is that his death (if true) speaks far more about Bush's failures than his successes in Iraq since, as was apparently the case with Bin Laden (Tora Bora), we could've gotten him a LOT sooner had things been handled the right way. In fact, the failure to get Zarqawi a LOT earlier is even more damning given that he was in an area of Iraq controlled by the Kurds and protected by US and we could've (and should've) wiped him out at any given time BEFORE the war. If the report that Bush refused to go after him to add more strength to his so-called "case" for Gulf War II is true, then but the blood of everybody that Zarqawi has murdered since the beginning of the occupation is on Bush's hands. That probably won't be how the media reports it, however.

The Pentagon wanted to attack Zarqawi's camp in northeastern Iraq in June 2002 and sent plans for such an attack to the White House. Bush and the cabal of evil incompetents around him didn't bother to get back to the Pentagon for almost an entire year. Finally in March 2003 they told the pentagon to forget it. In the meanwhile Zarqawi killed an American diplomat in Jordan in October 2002.

For someone who wants to be seen as tough guy unafraid to make the hard decisions, Bush sure acts like a pansy at exactly the wrong moments. In addition to wimping out on killing Zarqawi let's not forget that he wimped out at the best chance we may ever get to kill Bin Laden too.

:evilfrown:

This guy has more lives than Wile E. Coyote.

BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 -- An Iraqi police commander said Sunday that U.S. and Iraqi officials were certain that seven men who fought to the death in a house in northern Iraq were members of al Qaeda but were still trying to determine whether one of them was Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian insurgent leader.

U.S. military officials believe it is possible that Zarqawi was killed in the raid but will not know with certainty until DNA tests are run, said a U.S. military intelligence official involved in Iraqi issues.

There is a "30 percent" chance that one of the bodies is Zarqawi's, he said. But he warned: "We've had dry holes before."

Over the past month, the official said, there has been a series of raids following a surge in tips from Iraqis unhappy with Zarqawi and his operation. These tend to be traditional Iraqi leaders -- sheiks and imams -- upset with the organization, especially its recent execution of Sunni Arabs in Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar. "Their feeling is that al Qaeda in Iraq has overstepped its bounds," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/20/AR2005112000110.html

First someone claims the Jordan bombings as his work, some people in Jordan take to the streets to rally agsinst him, then his family disowns him, and now he is reported to be killed, again.

When the next bombs go off someone will again claim it was under his command.

Obviously the POSs are not done with this bogeyman yet.

These nuts think they cornered the market on al-Zarqawi propaganda.

-- Whitewash House says it's "highly unlikely" that the Iraqi terror leader was killed in a raid Saturday in Mosul. AP --

dbl.

He's actually not dead, has in fact grown another leg, and has got a gig doing a stand-up routine at the "You bin-Laffin" comedy club in Amman.

Or maybe he's just collecting virgins. Who knows?

(I honestly don't know if he's a Muslim, and I honestly don't know if they believe in reincarnation.)

Right???

Only 1 death a month. :spank:

It doesn't change a thing. There will be someone to take his place. However, I do believe that he is dead.

NOW!

says he's tired of being "Almost Caught"

and wasn't fond of being killed on multiple occasions.

"After all there's only so much propaganda a good agent can take"

When reached for comment a Pentagon official who wished to remain anonymous said

"His leg remains missing and is still considered a threat"

he added "We almost caught it our intel was Solid"


Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who was dead, then wasn't, then was dead again, then wasn't, then was captured, then wasn't, then was shot, then maybe wasn't, is now dead again & again but not yet confirmed....again.

to start a new religion named after him, Christ only rose from the dead once!

What Did You Say!!!!!!

...hospital windows, he runs through firestorms of bullets, he emerges from bomb blasts, and he even has the power to grow new legs!...

He's got more lives than a dang cat!

Or, is bin Laden alive and Elvis is dead? Maybe, al-Zarqawi is just faking his death in order to collect the insurance money and he'll pop up in the Azores with a book deal? Elvis is coming back, we know not when. Or, is that Jesus? I get these guys all mixed up.

Who cares if it's true? If they say he's dead, a bunch of people on DU will swear they're lying. If they say he's alive, a bunch of people on DU will swear they're lying - probably the same people.

I guess old Uday and Qusay are dead. You know, my life hasn't changed one iota from the moment before they were killed to the moment after. Our country hasn't changed, either. Oh, yes, we have more blood on our hands, but all in all, things have just kept on keeping on. It's amazing how that stuff works.