IRAQ: FALLUJAH SHEIKH SAYS AL-ZARQAWI DIED ON FRIDAY

Adnkronsinternational ^ | June 2, 2005 | Staff

[WmShirerAdmirer]

Baghdad, 2 June (AKI) - The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah's cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to protect the insurgency leader's tomb from a group of American soldiers patrolling the area.

During a telephone conversation from the city of Fallujah with the Saudi newspaper, Nasir said al-Zarqawi was taken there after being injured in the city of Ramadi around three weeks ago, and may have been treated by two doctors who had worked with his aides in Baghdad. He said the two doctors had stopped a serious haemorrhage in al-Zarqawi's intestines, but that after his condition worsened last week, the militant died on Friday.

Nasir adds that in his will the insurgent leader left the order that no funeral should be held for him and the right to announce his death should be left to the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.

The Al-Medina newspaper reports that it also called the headmaster of a school in Fallujah, who preferred to remain anonymous, but confirmed that many people in the city were aware of the fact that al-Zarqawi had recently been taken to the city.

Sheikh Nasir's claims appear to correspond with reports several weeks ago that al-Zarqawi had been injured and taken to Ramadi hospital for emergency treatment, and with messages on the Internet talking of two Arab doctors accompanying him. Al-Zarqawi was reported to have been seen at the hospital on April 27. The hospital's director told an Iraq-based newspaper that US troops later surrounded and raided the entire building, searching for the Jordanian militant.

Only two days ago, an audio message attributed to al-Zarqawi was posted on the Internet, in which he assured his followers that he had only been lightly injured. Following the message, the US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned countries neighbouring Iraq not to give any medical assistance to al-Zarqawi. "Our current theory is that he is in Iraq," he said. "Were a neighbouring country to take him in and provide medical assistance or haven for him, they obviously would be associating themselves with a major linkage in the al-Qaeda network, and a person who has a great deal of blood on his hands," Rumsfeld continued. "And that's something that people would want to take note of."

(Ham/Slb/Aki)

02-Jun-05 13:36

[cmsgop]

Pingoroonie!

[Pearls Before Swine]

This guy's been called dead nearly as many times as Osama. The best way for a cleric sympathizer to buy him time would be to claim he was dead and secretly buried.

[Spunky]

Here we go again.

DEAD! ALIVE! DEAD! ALIVE! DEAD!

[Popman]

Can you say "disinformation" ?

[caisson71]

"Show me the BODY" or stay out of the way.

[Echo Talon]

Good Friday? :D

[Dustbunny]

IRAQ: FALLUJAH SHEIKH SAYS AL-ZARQAWI DIED ON FRIDAY

I'll believe that when they produce his body and a DNA test is done.

[whershey]

Don't need the body, I'd settle for his head on a pike.

[skimbell]

Right, if the clown is dead, ship his miserable head to us. Until we get his head he is alive-and we should keep hunting him as tough he is.

[Normal4me]

Ahem....I'll wait till his next internet message telling us of his demise before I believe it. Still praying though!!! ;-)

[Flavius]

MORTICIAN: Bring out your dead!

Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! CUSTOMER: Here's one -- nine pence.

DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead!

MORTICIAN: What?

CUSTOMER: Nothing -- here's your nine pence.

DEAD PERSON: I'm not dead!

MORTICIAN: Here -- he says he's not dead!

CUSTOMER: Yes, he is.

DEAD PERSON: I'm not!

MORTICIAN: He isn't.

CUSTOMER: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.

DEAD PERSON: I'm getting better!

CUSTOMER: No, you're not -- you'll be stone dead in a moment.

MORTICIAN: Oh, I can't take him like that -- it's against regulations.

DEAD PERSON: I don't want to go on the cart!

CUSTOMER: Oh, don't be such a baby.

MORTICIAN: I can't take him...

DEAD PERSON: I feel fine!

CUSTOMER: Oh, do us a favor...

MORTICIAN: I can't.

CUSTOMER: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long.

MORTICIAN: Naaah, I got to go on to Robinson's -- they've lost nine today.

CUSTOMER: Well, when is your next round?

MORTICIAN: Thursday.

DEAD PERSON: I think I'll go for a walk.

CUSTOMER: You're not fooling anyone y'know. Look, isn't there something you can do?

DEAD PERSON: I feel happy... I feel happy.

[whop] CUSTOMER: Ah, thanks very much.

MORTICIAN: Not at all. See you on Thursday.

CUSTOMER: Right.

[clop clop]

MORTICIAN: Who's that then?

CUSTOMER: I don't know.

MORTICIAN: Must be a king.

CUSTOMER: Why?

MORTICIAN: He hasn't got sh.t all over him.

[alloysteel]

Find the grave, exhume the body and run DNA tests or whatever other tests deemed necessary, or even possible, to ascertain the identity, and upon determining it is really al-Zarqawi, decapitate the corpse, and display the head on a pike.

I realize this is a most extraordinary treatment of a corpse, but in light of the extreme and ruthless cruelty that has been attributed to al-Zarqawi, this Old Testament form of retribution is fully justified, and would have a most telling effect on all the would-be jihadists.

[Tacis]

... and, his body was sprinkled with bacon bits and eaten by dogs!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah's cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina.

Bring us his head on a pike as proof or we will start a rumor that he shaved his beard and put on a frilly pink dress before running away like a turpentined monkey.

[golfisnr1]

Its Friday and time for another Zarquari death story.

[Leo Carpathian]

the right to announce his death should be left to the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden

Huh? What al-Qaqa leadership in Afghanistan?

[Trueblackman]

AGAIN!!!