Abu Musab al-Zarqawi DEAD (per ABC breaking news)

[Lenore]

Dead in a bombing in Iraq.... turn on ABC...

Additional information: Information lead to a bombing raid on a building that held al Zarqawi, speculations also that the bombing killed Zarquawi's 'spiritual leader'...

Fox (cable) News now confirms, reports that the Iraqi Prime Minister has confirmed and that there should be a live briefing from the Green Zone shortly.

MSNBC (cable) News also confirms...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. again!!?

that guy sure gets around.

[CottonBear]

...on one leg... n/t

[file83]

4. He was dead on March 4, now he's dead again?

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

Is this guy a cat?

[zonmoy]

69. no

i suspect like bin laden he is more of an emmanual goldstein.

[Zhade]

140. Our very own Abu Musab al-Goldstein!

So, how many deaths is it NOW?

[Kni7es]

167. How many deaths?

I wouldn't suppose this is why we have such conflicting casualty reports... because if senior members of al quida are being killed off more than once, well, yeah...

[elgati]

204. Guess which Zarqawi was killed and win a trip 2 sunny Guantanamo Bay Cuba!

I don't know about you guys but I specially liked the WWF Zarqawi.

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/ms_gins/source/home/ho...

[Kikosexy2]

285. darn that ...

Pooty-Tat...he's got 8 more lives to go...

[AngryAmish]

230. Maybe he is a robot?

[Ecumenist]

93. Evidently, he's a member of the Dracula set.

[bananas]

67. "Interesting article from YESTERDAY: Zarqawi Scheduled for Martyrdom"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[bklyncowgirl]

118. Interesting indeed--if true that would mean Al Quada ratted him out

A little message from some of Bin Laden's operatives to U.S. Intelligence giving the address and time he was expected for dinner, perhaps?

[Javaman]

212. He'll be wearing a red sash...

But don't be put off by it, he's a bit flamboyant, hence the problems with al queda.

Also, he will be escorted by a tall blond woman named Inga, once again, don't be fooled, that is actually our inside man abdul, he is a master of disguise.

Zarqawi will be dining on roasted quail smothered in a chestnut sauce, but the highlight of the night will be the creme brulee' . Pay attention, it's actually plastic explosive. It will be covered in a a caramelized brown sugar. His first bite, will be his last. Ending everything he has done to us in a blinding flash of sweet revenge.

But don't forget, it's 5 bucks for valet parking.

[Roland99]

133. Very curious. I wonder how this plays into neocon plans to attack Iran?

[Marie26]

210. Interesting

'Given that Zarqawi has become a loose cannon and that his actions are handicapping Al Qaeda's efforts, it seems reasonable to expect that an accident may befall him at some point in the near future.' Pretty good prediction.

[Ecumenist]

92. Tell me about it, I'm a christian but this guy has been resurrected

more times than Jesus Christ.

[adigal]

148. How sad - you know my reaction??

I laughed out loud and said the same thing you did, "AGAIN???"

How sad that we cannot trust our government to be honest with us in matters of war and death. The boy who cried wolf is not believed in my house.

[elgati]

179. I want to see the head

and it needs to be identifiable too, not in crappy 1970's
video...lol
(assuming he even exists) 

[PaDem]

218. Bush vindicated!!!!!

Everything he's done over the past 6 years can now be forgiven and forgotten. He will go down in History as the man who rid the world of the elusive yet lethal Al Zarqawi. All the freedom hating Americans on DU need to now fall over each other trying to praise Mr. Bush like the Dems did when Saddam was captured. Of course in the process we'll dutifully ignore the fact that Al Zarqawi and King George have much in common. I suspect they both loathe gays and wide ranging personal liberties. Both have an infatuation with violence and torture and both believe that they are in acting in accordance with God's will.

Oh great day!!

[CottonBear]

2. Bernie Ward just announced this as per ABC news.

Z has only one leg and has already died or escaped so many times...
Nah. I don't believe the story.

[Pachamama]

66. I don't buy it either....

Wonder if they had to cut off the leg of the "Zarqawi" for authenticity purposes?

Convenient too that this would happen now....guess we should just all forget about that Haditha mess, the fact that we are approaching 2,500 dead and the fact that our economy is in big trouble.

again Cottonbear!

[bluestateguy]

3. The little boy cried wolf

Sorry. Don't buy it.

[genieroze]

5. Huh, isn't he dead already?

[Kutjara]

6. Don't worry, he's not dead.

In a few months, Shrub will wake up in his bed, go into his bathroom, open the shower door and there al-Zarqawi will be. It will all have been a dream.

[quaoar]

7. It's true. Zarqawi is dead

The FBI tore down a barn in Michigan, dug a huge hole and found Zarqawi's body right next to Jimmy Hoffa's.

[az chela]

12. Hey now that made me laugh out loud!!!

[EFerrari]

24. Next to a bunch of odd socks and earring backs.

[Ecumenist]

94. LOL!!!

[slaveplanet]

8. Yep , they're pulling out all the stops this time

ABC has a highly detailed special report going.

breaking late night...They've been blaming him for every ill for the past 15 minutes.

Oil rigs , hotels, The UN compound , Nick Berg (ABC says he actually killed Berg himself).

This guy was a regular one man super army.

Such BS.

The boogey man

Goldstein is finally dead? right

[marshall]

267. That was a gruesome video

I remember the video, and the voice that was identified as Zarqawi. Berg looked truly surprised when they started sawing his head off with what looked like a dull butcher knife.

[Scairp]

9. He's only dead on ABC

In the the rest of the cable and network news world he's just fine, alive to be killed again at a later date.

[still_one]

17. this might really be true

I certainly hope so

[ShortnFiery]

28. PsssT! This guy is a "PsyOps" creation. Absurd one at that! ;)

[still_one]

31. whatever he is, if true I am glad he is gone

this has nothing to do with the civil war we caused their, and has nothing to do with the insurgency, but it is also a good thing

[ShortnFiery]

38. Gawd! Please, no disrespect - but this is only "a tool" that is used by

the BushBotBorg to pick-up morale. It sort of equates to 1984 Announcements that our "chocolate rations" will be upped for the next month.

Translation: He's a fictitious character.


Too funny. One each, phony persona, al-Zarqawi functions (for us Peasant Classes) like the Wile E. Coyote of Islamic Terrorists. When the bombs fell, was he holding up a itty bitty umbrella? No worries though ---> you can bet that within the next year he'll be resurrected and firing another A.C.M.E. machine gun.

Bullshit! Until they pull out remnants of his tiny umbrella, I AIN'T BUYING IT.

[still_one]

41. You are entitled to your opinion

but I doubt that we will see any more tapes or recordings from him

As far as your assertion that this is only a tool, it will be very short lived

Arab and western sources are all reporting

Yes, the * administration will try to use this as justification for their illegal war, but the any momentum he will get from it will not last more than a week

In fact, the financial markets were crashing, recovered slightly, and now are heading down again. They realize that one frickn terrorist has nothing to do with the problems we have created in Iraq

[ShortnFiery]

48. It's almost an "open joke" among the military and

civilians who know how PsyOps operate, and the History, that Zarqowi is merely a "Pentagon creation."

And oh, don't we need some good news now? It's so predictable I could write the OP Orders.

It's all bullshit LIES paraded around for PR exploitation.

We almost need wings to rise above it.

[TheWatcher]

50. I find it disturbing that people STILL fall for this crap.

[ShortnFiery]

53. I just find it SAD.

It's hell, but with us USA peasants NOT having a true loyal opposition party to the Republican stranglehold, I'm working locally to care for my friends and family. Hopefully we can keep the homeless off of the streets most of this upcoming winter.

Other than the above, I see little hope other than voting most of THESE WORTHLESS CRONIES (most politicians) OUT as soon as possible.

[still_one]

75. I find it disturbing that people cannot distinguish when something

is real. In fact, NO DEMOCRAT in congress will say that Zarqawi does not exist. So I cannot understand why people who do NOT believe that would still remain democrats?

long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide
The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.

“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.
Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.
The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.

“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.


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

[Karmakaze]

142. Both stories turned out to be bullshit.

"After" the war, they sent in the WMD people to that "lab" at Kima. Know what they found? Nothing. A broken down abandoned village that and not been used for YEARS. There was NO LAB - it was just a fiction used to create fear while propelling the American public towards war.

[treestar]

192. It's all the distraction in the news media and that average people

can not keep it all straight. Anew I see the value of the DU, because of smart people who catch this sort of thing.

The Dems in Congress would be immediately attacked by Faux News and Limpball as crazy. Most of middle America would go along with it.

Maybe there is a bright side. We would go by grass roots instead of by leadership. Some sort of upwelling - granted no freeper is going to believe it but maybe with the internet there is a way to reach middle America.

The internet really rocks when it comes to this stuff. You can just see the military industrial complex shaking in their boots. They no longer control the flow of information the way they used to.

[mallard]

338. Re: It's not just the mainstay military industrial complex...

involved in these events. The timing of this neighborhood blow-out is perfect for 'relatiation' during the World Cup.

Al Qaeda will have their echo thus engrained.

The world needs a reminder.

[wizdum]

174. I couldn't agree more with your psyops assessment of the situation...

...I never believed in this pat story of AL Qaeda in Iraq. It set off my bullshit meter right from the get go. This won't help Bush as much as Rove would like. It is just a desperate stunt in an attempt to prop up Bush's poll numbers and boost the popularity his failed war by feigning the killing of one of the psyop program's main character. But by next week they'll have thought up another one to take his place.

This is a classic case of the tail wagging the dog. And what better way to shut down the story of Bush's bisexuality that were picking up a "head" of steam? I'm sure Jeff Gannon is thrilled about this latest development.

[Stand and Fight]

243. Say what?

Bush's bisexuality? You want to expand on that, wizdum?

[wizdum]

301. Check out this link for all the salacious details...

http://bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com/

[Stand and Fight]

311. Nothing new there.

I've seen it before. I thought it had finally broken into the MSM. I read that page about a year ago if I recall correctly. Thanks for the link though, as I've been searching for it for some time.

[TheWatcher]

49. I find your belief in the Boogeyman disturbing.

You're entitled to it, though.

Perhaps if I suspend my disbelief enough, this breaking story will help me feel that the entire War and suffering through this Administration was worth it.

Just so we could celebrate the "death" of a phantom Vapor-Terrorist.

So when do we invade Iran, and who is their phantom we are supposed to hate?

When do they issue the next chocolate rations report?

[still_one]

55. I will tell you why I believe he is real

He was a problem, and known about long before we invaded IRAQ. In fact, the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger, but refused to do it. He was too busy wanting to attack and occupy Iraq

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

If you believe he is a boogeyman, then the Democrats created him also

[TheWatcher]

61. This is like what, the 7th, 8th time he's been killed?

I simply can't keep up.

If it makes you feel better to believe in a tool this administation has used time and again, then by all means, knock yourself out.

Wow a link from MSNBC. This is better than the word of GOD.

A link from MSNBC means about as much as a link from the old Soviet Pravda these days.

Please, America, WAKE UP.

[still_one]

71. First of all I am NOT a tool of these jerks

did you read the link?

It was not a complement of *, but an indictment of his incompentence

My argument is more against those who saw Zarqawi never existed. If you believe that, then you should not trust the democrats either, because there is NOT ONE DEMOCRAT IN CONGRESS who doesn't believe Zarqawi exists.

[TheWatcher]

78. I never said you WERE a tool of these jerks

But you are falling for a PROPAGANDA tool they have used time and again.

There is a difference.

[still_one]

83. I do agree with you that they will try to use it as propaganda

but it will not work. Zarqawi was a fringe group of al queada, and definitely NOT responsible for the bulk of the insurgency and civil war now occurring in Iraq. Any gains that they hope to receive will be short-lived when reality strikes home

[pinniped]

80. Sorry, most also believed *'s lies about Sadaam's non-existant WMDs.

They don't have a very good track record.

[still_one]

84. no question about that

[treestar]

They have to believe in him

Given the votes they have made before.

They also want to be reelected so don't want to come off as looking like they have tinfoil hats on.

Let's face it, it is easy for the MSM to make it look like that even though it's probably true. The average American needs to believe in the government. That is how the CIA gets away with so much bullshit.

[1monster]

298. And hasn't he been captured a two or three times too? Wasn't he

the one they captured and put pictures out of him in a western style white teeshirt looking like a three day binge hangover victim?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

263. Riverbend doesn't believe he exists...

from her April Fools day post...

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

[aquart]

276. But if he IS real and dead, what difference does it make?

Is the insurgency dead? Will different, uniformed factions of the Iraqi government stop pulling people off the streets and out of their houses and leaving them dead somewhere (according to riverbend?

BushCo believes in the cult of personality...cut off the head and the body falls dead. But the insurgency is a civilian response to an invasion by a foreign power. There will always be another head. Why? Because the macho man who finally gets rid of the Americans WINS.

[SOS]

278. No difference

Agree with your assesment. With all the swirling reports about this guy over the past couple of years, it's hard to know what to believe.
But the militias will keep fighting, AQ in Iraq will appoint a leader, insurgents will continue their bombings, etc.
Nothing changes, even if Bush wishes it to be so in his fantasy world.

If anything, this news will simply fan the flames of the hell that is Iraq today.

[eridani]

65. And who says that the ones we have seen are real?

[treestar]

203. That's it, he has doubles!

Saddam does it, why can't this guy?

I wonder how many Osamas there are and why * hasn't started killing them yet.

[Jazzgirl]

119. ShortnFiery, you are right!

I woke up at 3:30 this morning and CNN was "breaking" the news that Zarqawi was dead. They trotted these films out of this guy who is supposed to be him. He looks nothing like the earlier pictures of Zarqawi and he weights some 30 pounds more too. In all the films they've been showing recently (remember the one where he was called incompetent because he couldn't fire the weapon?) his face is the only one showing. I found it funny they were spending so much time on this Pentagon propoganda for a man that is supposed to have been dead for, what, at least 4 years??!!?? They are unbelievable with their propoganda.

[ShortnFiery]

154. Remember ole' Porter Goss chased out all of the senior

intelligence operations officers from the CIA. I surmise that The Pentagon Spook wannabes were pumped up and arrogant enough to believe that they could handle this PsyOPS job without those elitists at Foggy Bottom.

They insult OUR (The Populace) intelligence with their Piss Poor Propaganda efforts. Why? Because they are NOT true intelligence professionals - just Political Hack Operatives ... and it shows!

I'm embarrassed for my country.

[Henny Penny]

137. I always get the A-Team music coming on

when his name is mentioned.

[truthisfreedom]

23. he's officially dead on NBC right now too.

[BigBearJohn]

30. MSNBC IS REPORTING IT TOO

[bluestateguy]

33. Oh that gives it instant credibility

The question here is, where is Fox News?

[magellan]

10. Let's hope the building they bombed was the Acme Cloning Co.

...and that they got all the twos and threes too.

[bluestateguy]

11. Even Fox News isn't picking this up

And you know that Fox would be multiple orgasming over this if it were true.

ABC News may find itself about to have a Jason Leopold moment.

[norml]

13. If so then Mabus died on 6/6/06.

That figures.

[Kni7es]

170. Hopefully it means he's rotting in hell.

[rooboy]

14. I knew that old age would catch up with him one day. n/t

[Polemicist]

15. He Blew up, Sir....

Reminds me of the movie Stripes.

This might be true. It's the "number three" Al Qaeda guy who keeps dying repeatedly. Al Zarqawi kept turning down promotions to #3, in order to stay alive. Perhaps he finally took the job.

[malmapus]

268. Being number 3 guy is about like wearing a red shirt on Star Trek (eom)

..

[still_one]

16. I just heard it also on ABC

ABC sounds very sure of the report

There are reports that Iraqi PM Al-Maliki to make `very important announcement` in Baghdad (Reuters)

It could be true, I certainly hope so

[pinniped]

18. This means absolutely nothing because he has proven time and time....

again he is capable of coming back to this planet at will.

[K8-EEE]

19. yaaaHOO! We Finally Kilt Us A Terr'rist!

It only took killin' anuther 100,000 or so other folks and a billion dollars but we DID it. Mission accomplished! No more terr'rism now boy howdee...

USA! USA!

[EFerrari]

32. They had to kill him. They couldn't ban gay people.

They had to do SOMETHING.

[TheWatcher]

54. *DING! DONG!* THE PHANTOM IS DEAD!

The War Was Worth it!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! USA! USA! USA!

Meanwhile, in the reality based world, the lies, the death, the destruction, the unabated crimes, and the spiraling into hell and fascism for our nation, and the senseless deaths of innocent Iraqi's continues, without end.

But hey, Goldstien's Dead.

AGAIN.

[EFerrari]

64. It's unspeakably cruel to do this to military families who must

keep hoping that THIS TIME it means something real for them.

For that alone, I hope Rumsfeld burns in hell or some equivalent for eternity.

[Pachamama]

73. Not to mention the fact that it does nothing to change the situation in

Iraq. I was just watching the "wall-to-wall" coverage on the Cable networks, and they are acting like its all over now, we can all sleep well, the bogeyman is dead, the situation in Iraq will finally become peaceful and all is well....

Sadly, for a few days, this will be the only thing talked about and meanwhile we will hit the 2,500th death of US troops and will anyone be paying attention?

[TheWatcher]

81. Until we stop falling for their Propaganda this will NEVER end

It always seems just as things are finally starting to fall apart, they pull out another carrot and all the sheep in the meadow yell HUZZAH! and go back to grazing.

Rinse. Repeat. HUZZAH!

Rinse Repeat, etc, etc, etc.....

What is it going to take?

[Pachamama]

102. You ask the very same questions that I ask myself everyday...

What is it going to take to wake people up?

I swear today I was in such a funk...I look at the election that took place in CA for example, in particular the run-off/primary seat in the 50th District for the Dukester's congressional seat. If more registered Dems had gone out to vote, we could have won it. If the DNC spent even half as much as the RNC or sent out staffers and foot soldiers, we could have won it. I am just so tired of it all and keep wondering what is it going to take?

When this news about Zarqawi came on, I just shook my head and like you said "Lather, Rinse, Repeat Huzzah!"

Imagine - more people voted for American Idol than in our elections....more people know and research info on the American Idol candidates than they do on political candidates or issues...And yes, there will be a bunch of sheeple in America tommorrow morning who when they wake up from their blissful sleep after watching a bunch of reality shows, they will hear about the Bogeyman Terrorist Zarqawi being dead and they will suddenly think the world is safer and everything is okay....

It's so disgusting and depressing....I want my country back.....

[TheWatcher]

74. I know sfxpat, I know.

This is absolutely shameless.

But they do not give a tinker's damn about military families, or the soldiers.

They are merely a means to an end.

And even if this doesn't turn out to be shameless Orwellian Oatmeal for the herd, even if they did finally manage to off a real person who may have allegedly in some made-up fiction novel, POSSIBLY really have been everything they said he was......

How is this worth all that has happened?

Someone please explain that to me.

after all, their business partner, um, I mean Bin Laden, is still at large.

But we just don't spend too much time on him.

[Roland99]

130. Bingo! Guess this distracts from * canceling that Senate briefing, too.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

20. MSNBC now reporting

al-Zarqawi dead again

[DoveTurnedHawk]

21. I Hope Hope Hope This Is True

Of course, we could have taken him out prior to invasion, but that would have been inconvenient for the warmongers. I wonder how many media outlets will report that?

DTH

[Elwood P Dowd]

22. False alarm! All they found was a cache of artificial limbs

and a pair of lips.

[pinniped]

25. THis is fucking stupid.

NBC breaks into live programming to spew this BS.

How the fuck do they know for sure?

Did the bomb blow one leg off a victim and it's automatically assumed that's the al-Zarqawi guy that doesn't exist?

Dude's got more lives than jason vorhees.

[EFerrari]

26. It's like El Brazo Onofre in The Milagro Bean Field War

Every time a young lady came home without her undies, it was El Brazo's fault.

We have a clear case of Al-Zarqawi's Leg here.

[ShortnFiery]

27. Oh Please!?! Cut the Bullshit.

This guy dies and is seemingly raised from the dead far too often.

Give it up Jack!

[Name removed]

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[JackDragna]

34. Oh, yay.

I'm sure this will stop attacks in Iraq..just like killing Hussein's sons did. Wait just a minute.

[Scurrilous]

35. Link:

Iraqi PM: al-Qaida's al-Zarqawi killed

<snip>

"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, has been killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister said Thursday.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed Wednesday evening along with seven aides.

The Jordanian-born militant, who was believed to have personally beheaded at least two American hostages, became Iraq's most wanted militant, as notorious as Osama bin Laden, to whom he swore allegiance in 2004. The United States had put a $25 million bounty on al-Zarqawi, the same as bin Laden.

In the past year, he moved his campaign beyond Iraq's borders, claiming to have carried out a Nov. 9, 2005, triple suicide bombing against hotels in Amman, Jordan, that killed 60 people, as well as other attacks in Jordan and even a rocket attack from Lebanon into northern Israel."


more

Edited to reflect changing story.

[maddezmom]

36. The PM is live on BBC now making the announcement

[pinniped]

44. See, the fact remains they don't know shit. All is pure speculation.

The Jordanian-born militant, who was believed

I, for one, will always believe al-Zarqawi is a made up boogeyman.

[Scurrilous]

47. Terror leader al-Zarqawi dead, Iraqi officials say

<snip>

"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted insurgent in Iraq, is dead, according to an aide to Iraq's prime minister.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was expected to make a public announcement of the death, the details of which are unclear.

Two Pentagon officials told CNN that the government is awaiting al-Maliki's announcement in Baghdad before commenting on the report officially.

One official says the Pentagon is not sure of how the death was confirmed and that there might need to be "additional forensics" done before they can be fully confident the terrorist leader is dead.

Officials could provide no further details at this time."

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.al.z...

[Rageneau]

37. Good. Now kill him again.

And again.

[Eugene]

39. Reuters/WaPo: Iraq PM says Zarqawi killed: TV