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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Life of Brutality
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most-wanted man, is dead. This Jordanian-born terrorist, long elusive to U.S. intelligence, was considered the chief architect and the public face of the Iraqi insurgency.
Blamed for dozens of attacks and thousands of deaths, he was Iraq's most wanted man with a $25 million dollar bounty on his head.
A one-time Jordanian street thug, Zarqawi was a master of disguise, able to stay one step ahead of U.S. forces: in Western clothes, in glasses, with a beard, without a beard.
But he was best known for his brutality. He was the man in the mask who beheaded American Nick Berg in April 2004 - one of many executions that Zarqawi made sure was seen around the world.
"It was designed to catapult Zarqawi into the front ranks of those adversaries of the United States that are seen as the most consequential. He is learning from the best, from bin Laden," said Bruce Hoffman of the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution with the goal of improving policy through research and analysis.
U.S. officials say his influence stretched far beyond Iraq to cells in at least seven other countries.
Task Force 145 narrowly missed capturing Zarqawi in April of this year, in a raid about 20 miles southwest of Baghdad.
Just six weeks ago, Zarqawi appeared without a mask for the first time on one of his videotapes. He was shown firing an automatic weapon in the desert and then turning toward the camera with his message.
'I swear to God,' he says, 'America will be defeated in Iraq, God willing. And it will leave the land of the two rivers,' he continues, 'defeated, humiliated, exhausted and disgraced.'
Six weeks later he is dead.
June 8, 2006 in Zarqawi | Permalink | User Comments (12)
"Task Force 145 narrowly missed capturing Zarqawi in April of this year, in a raid about 20 miles southwest of Baghdad."
Let's also keep in mind that the Administration explicitly passed on targeting Zarqawi on an occasion when they knew exactly where he was, pre-invasion. Speculation was mixed, between not having a clue as to his potential importance, or not wanting to appear to have killed a key player, thus lowering the case for war.
Posted by: drinkof | Jun 8, 2006 11:46:38 AM
"Let's also keep in mind that the Administration explicitly passed on targeting Zarqawi on an occasion when they knew exactly where he was, pre-invasion."
Exactly, because Saddam was killing so many more Americans with his terrorism ... right?
Posted by: blogenfreude | Jun 8, 2006 1:42:33 PM
HELL WILL BE HOT FOE THIS ONE
Posted by: kip | Jun 8, 2006 2:02:18 PM
so what if you kill him we are they for him hell with America
Posted by: suleiman | Jun 8, 2006 4:11:40 PM
Of course they wanted him dead. Dead men can't give up the identity of their CIA handlers. Bush had two chances to get this monster in 2002, but puuled the plug both times in order to add further justification to go into Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601
Posted by: Ken in MN | Jun 8, 2006 4:52:00 PM
Simply put... yeah! A picture is worth a bizillion dollars... this is one of the best. We cannot get out of Iraq soon enough! God Bless all of those there for all of us!
Posted by: Stella | Jun 8, 2006 4:58:36 PM
God Bless America. There will be many more of this type of scum burning in hell--God willing.
Posted by: Dawn | Jun 8, 2006 5:43:05 PM
Anybody who thinks Bush kept this guy alive to go into Iraq is a blind IDIOT!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dan | Jun 9, 2006 12:14:06 PM
Of course Zarqawi was in league with the CIA. Everyone knew that. Even Elvis was talking about it at that burger joint last night!
:)
Posted by: Andrew | Jun 9, 2006 1:01:31 PM
ZARQAWI: 'I swear to God,' he says, 'America will be defeated in Iraq, God willing.
POST BY 'DAWN': God Bless America. There will be many more of this type of scum burning in hell--God willing.
YOUR EXPRESSIONS ARE LIKE-KIND...SICK. HOW YOU CAN INCLUDE GOD IN THE MIDST OF HATE IS BEYOND ME.
Posted by: Veronica | Jun 9, 2006 8:14:39 PM
It doesn't matter what Bush or the military do at this point. Liberals are like 2nd graders in that they assign imagination to supplant logic when the latter is absolutely out of lign with their expectations and/or predictions. They scream that Bin Laden isn't dead, but WHEN he's dead they'll scream that a) he's just one man, b) that the CIA "handled" him, or c) that we knew all along where he was but was saving it (even past a presidential election) for a time when the people's support was lacking.
"Thinking themselves wise, they became as fools."
Posted by: Gary | Jun 9, 2006 8:44:26 PM
Ken in MN is right: I checked the site he bookmarked. So why are we always hearing that Saddam did not support terrorists and that there was no justification to invade Iraq? I guess its true: repeat a lie often enough and the people will believe it.
Posted by: Joe | Jun 13, 2006 10:42:51 PM
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