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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings of hostages, has been killed in a precision airstrike, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday. It was a long-sought victory in the war in Iraq.
Al-Zarqawi and seven aides were killed Wednesday evening in a remote area 30 miles northeast of Baghdad in the volatile province of Diyala, just east of the provincial capital of Baqouba, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said.
Al-Qaida in Iraq confirmed al-Zarqawi’s death and vowed to continue its “holy war,” according to a statement posted on a Web site.
“We want to give you the joyous news of the martyrdom of the mujahed sheik Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,” said the statement, signed by “Abu Abdel-Rahman al-Iraqi,” identified as the deputy “emir” or leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
“The death of our leaders is life for us. It will only increase our persistence in continuing holy war so that the word of God will be supreme.”
Video from the scene of the attack showed children scrambling over a flattened jumble of cinderblocks, concrete reinforcing bars, blankets and other debris. A pickup truck nearby was scorched and crushed.
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Bush: ‘Zarqawi Has Met His End’
President Bush on Thursday said Iraqi and U.S. forces have “delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq” after officials confirmed that the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed.
“Through his every action, he sought to defeat America and our coalition partners and turn Iraq into a safe haven from which Al Qaeda could wage its war on free nations,” Bush said during remarks made in the White House Rose Garden. “Now Zarqawi has met his end and this violent man will never murder again.”
“Zarqawi was the operational command of the terrorist movement in Iraq. He led a campaign of car bombings, assassinations and suicide attacks that has taken the lives of many American forces and thousands of innocent Iraqis,” Bush continued, adding that Usama bin Laden even called his recruit, “the prince of Al Qaeda in Iraq.”
Although Zarqawi is dead, Bush warned that the “difficult and necessary” work in Iraq must continue as that country settles in with its new government that still faces seemingly increasing sectarian violence. Although that violence may continue, “the ideology of hate” that Zarqawi espoused has lost a key voice, the president added.
“Zarqawi’s death is a severe blow to Al Qaeda, it’s a victory in the global War on Terror and it’s an opportunity for Iraq’s new government to turn the tide of this struggle.”
June 8, 2006 - 06:38 AM on June 8th, 2006
And another one bites the dust.
I know nature abhors a vacuum, and others will rush to fill the void, but it’s still a good thing that he and his spiritual advisor can finally get to see what’s awaiting them in the afterlife.
June 8, 2006 - 06:58 AM on June 8th, 2006
this will surely make all the liberals sad
but, I forgot…they support the troops…yeah right.
June 8, 2006 - 07:12 AM on June 8th, 2006
I wonder how mad the liberals are going to get over this? I don’t for a minute believe they support the troops. I’m not that naive.
June 8, 2006 - 07:53 AM on June 8th, 2006
they are in mourning.. it’s fucking amazing.. I’m listening to Laura Ingraham and she is compiling reaction from the MSM, you’d think fucking nelson mandela died the way they are carrying on…
June 8, 2006 - 08:29 AM on June 8th, 2006
I hear you Mike. I’ve been watching the news as well. It’s truly mind boggling.
Well, here’s my two cents. Amen to the fact that this terrorist is dead. Now let’s move on; we’ve got lots more work to do.
June 8, 2006 - 08:35 AM on June 8th, 2006
Amen to that Bon Bon!
June 8, 2006 - 08:43 AM on June 8th, 2006
What about Zarqawi’s constitutional rights? He had no trial, wasn’t convicted of anything! Why didn’t they even try to arrest him? He was entitled to his day in court!
The pilot and all those who participated in this operation must be arrested and charged with murder! They killed Zarqawi in cold blood!
June 8, 2006 - 08:52 AM on June 8th, 2006
Best news I’ve heard all week! Are they running out of virgins in heaven yet?
June 8, 2006 - 09:00 AM on June 8th, 2006
I am awaiting John Murtha’s comments…could be an interesting day in DC. It couldn’t have come at a better time with the Haditha incident. I think I will crank up Toby Keith’s Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue. “We’ll put a boot in your ass…it’s the American way!”…In this case, a 500 lb. bomb!
Way to go!!!!
June 8, 2006 - 09:08 AM on June 8th, 2006
Lisa, I do believe that reports are coming in that they are out of actual vigins so they are now serving “technical” virgins…:wink:
June 8, 2006 - 09:10 AM on June 8th, 2006
Yes, that isa confirmed. You get a technical virgin and all the pork you can eat.:mrgreen:
June 8, 2006 - 09:12 AM on June 8th, 2006
Of course the MSM leftists don’t like this because it a triumph for Bush, and will make real Americans feel better about things, even if for only a short time.
Notice the Al Qaida spin machine swinging into action. They spin this like it’s some king of victory for them. I wonder if they are using an American MSM Leftist consultant? Or maybe a former member of the Klinton spin team as a consultant?
My only regert with this great news is that Zarqawi probably didn’t suffer, he likely died instantly. One moment he’s plotting how to kill soe more civilians or step up the IED attacks on our troops, suddenly blam, and the next thing he knows he is in Hell. But what the heck, the job’s done and that’s the part to focus on.
Now for Lenny the Leftist above, can you just imagine if somehow Zarqawi was arrested? The Leftists would be complaining about how he was being mistreated, then we’d hear all about his underprivileged, misfortunate childhood, blah blah blah.
June 8, 2006 - 09:20 AM on June 8th, 2006
How dissappointed Abu must be right now…lied to all these years about 72 virgins. I can see him right now demanding his virgins in the fires of hell. Can’t wait for OBL to join him.
June 8, 2006 - 09:24 AM on June 8th, 2006
At least Zarqawi didn’t have to suffer through the inhumane and brutal practice of having some 19 year old army chick point at his nut sack…..the horror.
June 8, 2006 - 09:28 AM on June 8th, 2006
Mike…I am still laughing at that post. But don’t be to quick with your analysis…you don’t know what kind of virgins he will be served up in hell…try 72 virgins pointing to his nut sack…talk about true horror!!!!
June 8, 2006 - 09:33 AM on June 8th, 2006
:lol:Good News now kill bin laden and cut his families heads off and i will be happy! but also see it for what it is, a show for you! the rats are still dismantling the USA With the North American Union. ALSO When I see a headline that reads Bush orders Fox to be shot I will Love Bush, like that will happen
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June 8, 2006 - 10:47 AM on June 8th, 2006
Huuu-ahhh! Good work! I would counter the “martyrdom” spin by broadcasting a photo of Zarqawi’s body with pig entrails draped around his neck. Therefore, he won’t be going to heaven and collecting his reward after all.
June 8, 2006 - 10:50 AM on June 8th, 2006
Sandy #13:
Zarqawi: But…Bin Laden said I’d go directly to Allah!
Satan: He lied, you stupid f**k!
Zarqawi: This is all wrong. I’m suing!
Satan: Bwaaahahahaha! Go ahead and try! The lawyers all work for me!
June 8, 2006 - 11:08 AM on June 8th, 2006
Actually, I’ve recently been made aware, through my clandestine meetings with the cigar smoking, white male protestant heterosexual neocon cabal, that Osama Bin Laden has been in custody for some time now. We just aren’t gonna let that sumbitch off easy, he is currently entering his 10th month of non-stop nutsack pointing at the hands of one Lynndie England. If this kind of horrific torture ever got out it might actually result in Bin Laden becoming a sympathetic figure..particularly to the american left, who claim that they want him found, but shockingly agree with him on nearly every bullet point.
June 8, 2006 - 11:35 AM on June 8th, 2006
“I wonder how mad the liberals are going to get over this? I don’t for a minute believe they support the troops. I’m not that naive.”
We’re pretty happy about it, to be honest. But we don’t think it’ll make much difference.
And you are naive if you think liberals do not support the troops. We do not support the civilian leadership of the military or the incompetent decisions they’ve made over the past three years in Iraq.
I want the troops back home safe and sound, protecting America, and not fighting in unnecessary Imperialistic escapades around the globe…
I could just as easily say that YOU don’t support the troops because you want them in harms way and support sending them away to have their legs and arms blown off.
That’s some real good support you give there. BonBon says: “I support death and the maiming of our troops”
June 8, 2006 - 12:27 PM on June 8th, 2006
Kill bin Laden; and that idea about pig entrails sounds really great, Go-Go-Air Force! we may need you here soon to help us in stopping the North American Union, targets will follow!:grin:
see deadwood june 11, the real west coming to you from Bush and business the wave of our future the North American Union, gang rulers from Mexico City.
June 8, 2006 - 12:35 PM on June 8th, 2006
Wait a minute. I thought there were no terrorists in Iraq?
San Fran. By definition soldiers are meant to protect our freedoms and our lives. I don’t want them in harms way but that’s their job and I recognize that.
June 8, 2006 - 12:48 PM on June 8th, 2006
Here is what does not make sense to me. We have heard from the left over and over, “What about Bin Laden…you let Bin Laden get away,,,blah blah blah.” Now they are saying, “Yeah, it’s great that Zarc is dead, but it doesn’t change anything.”
Well then, what would change if we blew up Bin Laden with a 500 lb. bomb tomorrow?? Yeah, he was directly involved with 9-11, but what changes in the future???
You can’t have it both ways. I don’t think killing this guy is going to cause the rest of them to lay down their arms tomorrow, but it is a severe blow to them, and a huge boost for our military. Our military isn’t broken like Murtha wants us to believe.
June 8, 2006 - 12:54 PM on June 8th, 2006
Iraq did not have a terrorist problem before the Bush invasion, BonBon.
The current problem is of our own making. Remember the famous Pottery Barn rule? “You break it, you own it”
Well, we broke Iraq, and we own that problem now. We are responsible for what happened after the fall of Saddam.
Regarding soldiers defending our freedom and our lives; I agree 110%. However, as all the evidence now shows, Iraq wasn’t a threat to us after having been de-clawed post-1991…
Our soldiers are being killed and maimed for a mistake, BonBon. One of the greatest political and military blunders in the history of these United States.
How is it called “support” when you give aid and comfort to politicians and ideologies that result in the unnecessary death and bodily destruction of our fighting men and women?
June 8, 2006 - 01:07 PM on June 8th, 2006
FYI, Mr. SFL,
This just hits the surface of connections to terrorists. Anyone naive enough to think that Saddam would have passed up a chance to get involved in terrorist activities against the US is dumber than I thought…
A new study from the Hudson Institute details how Saddam provided money, support and shelter to a league of extraordinary terrorists. Abdul Rahman Yasin, the chemist for the first World Trade Center bombing, was given sanctuary in Baghdad after his U.S. indictment. Abu Nidal, the terrorist mastermind who killed hundreds including 10 Americans, lived in Baghdad from 1999 until he was murdered in 2002. Abu Abbas, the architect of the Achille Lauro hijacking that resulted in the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, was captured in Baghdad by U.S. forces.
June 8, 2006 - 01:16 PM on June 8th, 2006
Oh, and here’s more dealing with the Clinton Administration and the 9/11 commissions report….
- The continued insistence of high-ranking Clinton administration officials to the 9/11 Commission that the 1998 retaliatory strikes (after the embassy bombings) against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory were justified because the factory was a chemical weapons hub tied to Iraq and bin Laden?
- Top Clinton administration counterterrorism official Richard Clarke’s assertions, based on intelligence reports in 1999, that Saddam had offered bin Laden asylum after the embassy bombings, and Clarke’s memo to then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger (Burglar), advising him not to fly U-2 missions against bin Laden in Afghanistan because he might be tipped off by Pakistani Intelligence, and “[a]rmed with that knowledge, old wily Usama will likely boogie to Baghdad”? (See 9/11 Commission Final Report, p. 134 & n.135.)
June 8, 2006 - 01:16 PM on June 8th, 2006
not to mention saddam’s involvement with the Terry Nichols/Mindanao connection.
Why this dosen’t get more coverage is fucking beyong me..oh, I forgot, it would embarrass Billy Blowjob.
June 8, 2006 - 01:40 PM on June 8th, 2006
Thanks for looking all that up Sandy.
San Fran; you are the one who is naive if you think there were no terrorists in Iraq. Saddam himself was a terrorist who terrorized the Kurds in the north, Iranians and others in his country for starters.
As for Bin Laden, he most likely will never be caught. He knew what was being planned, his part in the 9/11 events and after Billy boy declined custody this man parted. Like a ghost he will never be caught.
June 8, 2006 - 01:43 PM on June 8th, 2006
Mike, I’ve read about those connections. Truth for me is that they seem weak at best. My position is that Terry Nichols, being in league with Tim McVeigh and the Arryan Nation learned bomb making from the terrorist group (AlQueda I believe?) but not much more.
In any case, it should have been a red flag to Clinton that terrorists can and will attack Americans.
June 8, 2006 - 01:53 PM on June 8th, 2006
Bonbon.. not so weak..if you still think that bombing was the sole work of 2 crazy crackers, then you probably believe the Warren commission….
A former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City last night told Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly she has gathered massive evidence of a foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the 1995 bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people.
Jayna Davis, former reporter for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, says she took her evidence — including hundreds of court records, 24 sworn witness statements and reports from law enforcement, intelligence and terror experts — to the FBI, which refused even to accept the material.
Two men were convicted of murder and conspiracy charges in the bombing — Timothy McVeigh, who faces execution May 16, and Terry Nichols, who yesterday asked that Oklahoma charges against him be dismissed as he has already been convicted in federal court.
Nichols, 45, is serving a life prison sentence for his federal conviction on eight involuntary manslaughter counts and conspiracy for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. State prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Nichols. But defense attorneys said yesterday constitutional protection against double jeopardy bars the state from seeking the death penalty.
Davis said federal authorities investigating the bombing decided early on in the probe that the blast was the result of a domestic conspiracy, not a foreign one, ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
She said a Middle East terrorist cell was in operation only blocks from the federal building, and that an Iraqi national who formerly served in Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard was in contact with McVeigh the day of the bombing. She said this suspect arrived at the crime scene in a Ryder truck moments before the blast and sped away in a brown Chevrolet pickup truck immediately after.
An all-points bulletin was issued for this suspect, but was later withdrawn inexplicably.
Davis said her evidence indicates a conspiracy involving McVeigh, Nichols and at least seven men of Middle Eastern ethnic background. She called bin Laden the mastermind of the conspiracy.
“The evidence we have gathered definitely implicates McVeigh and Nichols,” she said. “I want to make that very clear. They were in it up to their eyeballs.”
Davis also points to court records offered in the Nichols defense that suggest he had contacts with a member of bin Laden’s terrorist organization in the Philippines prior to the bombing.
When she took her hundreds of pages of documentation of conspiracy in the bombing to the FBI, Davis said agents “turned me away and refused to take my statements.”
June 8, 2006 - 01:57 PM on June 8th, 2006
#26: FAR more evdience exists (by several orders of magnitude) that Saddam had terrorists ties, WMD, was a really bad guy, and presented a threat to the entire region (including U.S. interests) than exists for the argument that human activity is a substantial contributor to “Global Warming”.
Yet Ecofraud Al Gore is out there peddling his “Inconvenient Truth” bullshit movie, and dopes everywhere are buying into it. I guess he saw what good money could be made peddling BS (F911) and figured it was time to go big time on his Global Warming crap.
June 8, 2006 - 02:23 PM on June 8th, 2006
Good point, Robert. If I was a betting person, I would put my money on Saddam/Terrorist ties over Global Warming caused by you and I. It amazes me how when Clinton was prez, these same people (koolaid drinkers) went along with Clinton when he made the case of Saddam connected to terrorists…because he was an honest superior being who is so much smarter than we could dream to be. But when a Republican administration makes the exact same claims, they’re liars, facists, blah blah blah!!
If I hear one more quackie leftie call President Bush a liar, I am going to explode.
June 8, 2006 - 03:02 PM on June 8th, 2006
Sandy….what I particularly don’t like is that they accuse Bush of ‘not connecting the dots’ and then when he does/is they accuse him of breaking the law.
I heard all those lefties in the late 1990’s calling for Saddams reign of power to be over and supporting Clinton in taking him out. But I have come to the conclusion it was all just political posturing. In the wake of 9/11 though there is no more room for posturing.
And San Fran…this is for you. I don’t mind hearing a difference of opinion but doing something about the terror problem is better than doing nothing. And doing it over there is preferable to fighting them here. How would you fight terror?
June 8, 2006 - 03:38 PM on June 8th, 2006
“Saddam himself was a terrorist who terrorized the Kurds in the north, Iranians and others in his country for starters.”
Are you saying that justifies the Iraq War, then?
June 8, 2006 - 06:06 PM on June 8th, 2006
How about Hussein’s failure to comply with the conditions of the cease-fire agreement from the first Gulf war?
And all those UN resolutions ignored…?
Stonwalled weapon inspectors…?
Once Saddam violated the cease-fire all bets were off.
So the question really becomes, “Why could Saddam not stick to the terms of the cease-fire and avoid all this?”
June 8, 2006 - 06:13 PM on June 8th, 2006
Well he bribed the security council so he didn’t think we would be coming!
June 8, 2006 - 06:26 PM on June 8th, 2006
Peejz, how many times have I told you not to confuse me with the facts?:razz::wink:
June 8, 2006 - 06:30 PM on June 8th, 2006
I will refrain from that dastardly act:twisted:
June 8, 2006 - 06:37 PM on June 8th, 2006
No, it’s okay. There may have once been a time when I’d pay good money to have someone confuse me with fact.
Then I got my degree and had to pay back the loans…
Not sure how that happened.:neutral:
June 8, 2006 - 07:03 PM on June 8th, 2006
20. SF,,, this “troop” says you are a cod sack. You don’t care a bit about the war or the “troops”. I call your bullshit! You only care about your recycled communism and will do whatever it takes to force it on the masses.
June 8, 2006 - 07:12 PM on June 8th, 2006
Hey John!
June 8, 2006 - 07:38 PM on June 8th, 2006
June 8, 2006 - 08:25 PM on June 8th, 2006
I can nither confirm nor deny Bobby…:razz:
June 8, 2006 - 08:30 PM on June 8th, 2006
Hey Sasha,,, where you been hiding? Nice to see some of the old crowd here. I remember like it was yesterday,,,,, Peejz, PCD, Mike Kilo, etc. vs. Sandy the Toronto *****, and Shiloh the self hating,,, whatever he was. These new libs are easy.
June 9, 2006 - 07:56 AM on June 9th, 2006
44: Don’t forget dg. It’s almost time for him to resurface.
I’ve been really busy and a bit preoccupied (I’ll email you the details). But it’s coming up on election season so it’s time to represent.
June 11, 2006 - 07:47 PM on June 11th, 2006
All you people suck.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead. This is a happy time. Get your crack pipe out. Grab a 40 of Malt.
It doesn’t make Iraq perfect, it doesn’t make my dog pick up her own poop, it doesn’t make the white man stop keeping me down, but it is a better than Abu Musab al-Zarqawi being alive.