Thread: NBC Al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Killed

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

I just saw NBC Broadcast that Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi has been killed. Used Drone Preditor....

Nothing on their website yet.
Video link on MSNBC Left Col. News Video.
Wonder if this is a related story:
June 7: A Queens, N.Y., resident was arrested in London Wednesday on suspicion of ties to al-Qaida. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.

Dixie

On USA Today. Not very much information yet.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq ... dead_x.htm

Originally Posted by Dixie

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

I just saw NBC Broadcast that Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi has been killed. Used Drone Preditor....

Nothing on their website yet.
Video link on MSNBC Left Col. News Video.
Wonder if this is a related story:
June 7: A Queens, N.Y., resident was arrested in London Wednesday on suspicion of ties to al-Qaida. NBC’s Pete Williams reports.

Dixie

Now we need to find "Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi" #2 and so on.

NBC News reports that U.S. military officials have confirmed the death.

From USA Today AP

I caught that on the NBC Broadcast too.

If that doesn't help Bush's approval rateing, nothing will.

jcalex, So Right!!!!!!! Zarqawi's not enough!!!!!!!!!

Dixie

Nothing would surprise me at this point.

Our sister borough is the home of the oxymoronic Islamic Thinker's Society, a.k.a. Al Muhajiroun, after all.

Two of these scumbags showed up to counterprotest our demonstration against Islamo-fascism at Ground Zero earlier this year.

Of course, they had NYPD protection.

Can't have harm befall creatures that are trying to eradicate each and every one of us, now can we?

Special forces air strike, killed over night.. 40 miles north of Baghdad, in a safe house. Prime minister of Iraq, announced this. US Gen. Geo Cassey and Ambassador to US confirm in Iraq Press conference. Fingerprint and facial recognition confirmed ID. NBC

25 Million Dollar Reward offered by US. Dang, there goes our border money!!!!!!!

Dixie

Delta force.

W00t.

As excited as I am, we need the DNA to verify. There have been too many false alarms and nothing that the MSM reports can be counted on.

Military will wait for DNA.

However........ANYONE FEEL LIKE BBQ?

How many times has this guy died?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084/

Iraq militants claim al-Zarqawi is dead
Al Qaida-linked extremist suspected of planning attacks

Updated: 6:31 a.m. ET March 4, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Jordanian extremist suspected of bloody suicide attacks in Iraq was killed some time ago in U.S. bombing and a letter outlining plans for fomenting sectarian war is a forgery, a statement allegedly from an insurgent group west of the capital said.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq “during the American bombing there,” according to a statement circulated in Fallujah this week and signed by the “Leadership of the Allahu Akbar Mujahedeen.”

There was no way to verify the authenticity of the statement, one of many leaflets put out by a variety of groups taking part in the anti-U.S. resistance.
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The statement did not say when al-Zarqawi was supposedly killed, but U.S. jets bombed strongholds of the extremist Ansar al-Islam in the north last April as Saddam Hussein’s regime was collapsing.

It said al-Zarqawi was unable to escape the bombing because of his artificial leg.

Before the Iraq conflict began last March, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said al-Zarqawi received hospital treatment in Baghdad after fleeing Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence sources said he apparently was fitted with an artificial leg.

The statement said the “fabricated al-Zarqawi memo” has been used by the U.S.-run coalition “to back up their theory of a civil war” in Iraq.

In February, the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq made public an intercepted letter it said was written by al-Zarqawi to al-Qaida leaders, detailing a strategy of spectacular attacks to derail the planned June 30 handover of power to the Iraqis. U.S. officials say al-Zarqawi may have been involved in some of the series of suicide bombings this year in Iraq.

“The truth is, al-Qaida is not present in Iraq,” the Mujahedeen statement said. Though many Arabs entered the country to fight U.S. troops, only a small number remain, the group said.

A little over a year ago, Jordanian authorities named al-Zarqawi as the mastermind behind the October 2002 murder of Laurence Foley, a 60-year-old administrator of U.S. aid programs in Jordan.

In a German court last year, Shadi Abdellah, a Palestinian on trial for allegedly plotting to attack Berlin’s Jewish Museum and a Jewish-owned disco, testified he was working for al-Zarqawi. He said they met in Afghanistan.

German authorities have reportedly said they believe al-Zarqawi was appointed by al-Qaida’s leadership to arrange attacks in Europe.

Moroccan government sources said a group blamed for bombings last May that killed 45 people in Casablanca got its orders from al-Zarqawi. In Turkey, officials said he was believed to have played a role in bombings that killed 63 at two synagogues, the British consulate and a British bank in Istanbul in November.
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