Posted on 05/15/2005 7:07:05 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s most wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search ), has been seriously wounded, according to a doctor who claims to have treated him last week.
The doctor told an Iraqi reporter in the western city of Ramadi that Zarqawi was bleeding heavily when he was brought into hospital on Wednesday. After treating his wounds the doctor tried to persuade him to remain, but the Jordanian-born terrorist’s minders drove him away.
The claim was supported yesterday by a senior commander in the Iraqi resistance who had been to Ramadi to investigate the report. The doctor, who refused to specify the nature of the wounds and asked not to be identified, was detained by the Americans on Friday for questioning, residents said.
Zarqawi, described as Usama Bin Laden’s “emir” in Iraq, is the Americans’ top target. He has been blamed for countless suicide bombings and for the execution of western hostages, including Ken Bigley, the Liverpool engineer. There is a £13m bounty on his head.
Last week US forces launched an offensive near al-Qaim, more than 100 miles northwest of the city, and claimed to have killed scores of insurgents.
According to the doctor, Zarqawi was escorted into Ramadi general hospital by smartly dressed men. “He was bleeding heavily and his escorts were well dressed with a look about them that was different from the casualties and family members we had been receiving from the al-Qaim offensive,” he was quoted as saying.
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well, we need to seriously get him!
I hope he's suffering some of the pain he has so arrogantly inflicted on others.
Interesting timing, maybe purely coincidental...
Coalition warplanes destroy insurgent command center near Fallujah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403232/posts
I'm becoming quite skeptical of these reports.
You and everyone else.
"They also offered to exchange the governor for three followers of Iraq’s most wanted terrorists, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who they said were seized in the US offensive, according to the family."
Kidnapped Iraqi Governor Freed http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4558110 Associated Press via The Scotsman, Sunday, May 15, 2005 Gunmen freed the kidnapped governor of Iraq’s western Anbar province today after US troops ended a week-long offensive in the region, relatives and a government official said. “He was released and he is currently in the (village) of Obeidi,” Governor Raja Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi’s cousin, Safi Jalal, said. “People celebrated by firing shots in the air.” Al-Mahalawi was seized on Tuesday as he drove from the Syrian border town of Qaim to the provincial capital of Ramadi. The governor’s kidnappers told the family he would be released when US troops withdrew from Qaim. They also offered to exchange the governor for three followers of Iraq’s most wanted terrorists, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who they said were seized in the US offensive, according to the family. Ahmed Hadi, an official at Iraq’s Ministry of Provincial Affairs, confirmed al-Mahalawi was released in the early hours of this morning, but declined to provide any details of how this happened. The governor’s cousin said he was released without conditions. The US military declared its week-long offensive over yesterday, saying it had cleared an insurgent haven near the Syrian border and killed about 125 militants. AP
Thanks for link, hadn't seen the earlier posting.
SSDD
Yup, I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually in same stripper bar in West Palm Beach, Florida
It's just a flesh wound.
And Elvis sitting next to him - lol.
Am I reading this right - we caught him again? Like a cat - 9 captures.
Why couldn't he had have one of those incompetent American doctors - you know the ones who leave the scissors inside after a surgery.
Yeah. Did Arafat die yet?
Yes, several times.
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