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U.S. Strike Hits Insurgent at Safehouse (Zarqawi dead - Defense & Interior posts finally approved!)
NY Times ^ | June 8, 2006 | JOHN F. BURNS

Posted on 06/08/2006 8:25:54 AM PDT by neverdem

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 8 — Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in an American air strike on an isolated safe house north of Baghdad at 6.15 p.m. local time on Wednesday, top United States and Iraqi officials said today.

At a joint news conference with Iraq's prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the top American military commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., said Zarqawi's body had been positively identified by fingerprints, "facial recognition" and "known scars." He said seven of Zarqawi's associates had also been killed in the strike.

The announcement of Zarqawi's death, shortly before noon today in Baghdad, appeared to mark a major watershed in the war. With a $25 million bounty the United States had on his head, the Jordan-born Zarqawi has been the most wanted man in Iraq for his leadership of Islamic terrorist groups that have carried out many of the most brutal attacks of the war, including scores of suicide bombings, kidnappings and beheadings.

"Today, we have managed to put an end to Zarqawi," said a beaming Mr. Maliki, who took office three weeks ago at the head of Iraq's first full-term government since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. He said the death should be a...

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For Mr. Maliki, a Shiite, the killing of Mr. Zarqawi brought immediate political results in the form of parliamentary approval, immediately after the news conference, of Mr. Maliki's nominees for the vacant security posts in the cabinet, the ministers of defense, interior and national security. After the prime minister's repeated failures to win agreement of contending groups within the government on earlier nominees, he stood at the lectern in the Parliament chamber and presented the three men who emerged from weeks of overlapping vetoes by the main Sunni and Shiite political groups.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; deathofzarqawi; iraq; number3man; victory; waronterror; waronterrorism; waronterrorists; zarqawi
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1 posted on 06/08/2006 8:25:57 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

The Iraqi Minutemen have lost a leader:

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win.

--Michael Moore, April 2004


2 posted on 06/08/2006 8:28:35 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: neverdem

Some media reports are asking about the other "victims" of this attack.

Anyone in Zarqawi's company was an accomplice.

You are with us or with the terrorists.


3 posted on 06/08/2006 8:28:42 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: neverdem

May he both rot, and burn, in hell.

Amen.


4 posted on 06/08/2006 8:29:28 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: finnman69

Michael Moore said that shortly before Nick Berg was decapitated (although he had already been kidnapped, so his kidnapping was NOT in retaliation for the Abu Ghraib media blitz).

Lumpy Riefenstahl has never apologized for his support for terrorists or taken them to task for the war crimes they commit.


5 posted on 06/08/2006 8:30:11 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: Alexander Rubin

Zarqawi's family say they cut ties with him some time ago yet in his death, they call him a martyr and say they hope to be reunited with him in heaven.


6 posted on 06/08/2006 8:31:01 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: Alouette; SJackson; Salem; Convert from ECUSA

Important good news ping!


7 posted on 06/08/2006 8:32:28 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: finnman69

Too bad Michael Moore was too chicken to go over there and face Zarqawi, all by himself, in person. He would have lost his head, I am sure! Micheal Moore is a big fat liar.

God bless our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, etc etc etc GOOD JOB! God bless them all!


8 posted on 06/08/2006 8:33:10 AM PDT by buffyt (America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
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To: weegee

Typical...


9 posted on 06/08/2006 8:34:26 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: neverdem

Got you you son of a b!tch!


10 posted on 06/08/2006 8:34:39 AM PDT by Lancer_N3502A
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To: weegee
Some media reports are asking about the other "victims" of this attack.

Reports have understandably been sketchy, so far, but as I presently understand it 7 associates were also killed, and two women (who were intelligence gatherers for Zarqawi) and possibly one child. Of course anyone who brings a child to a terrorist meeting is totally unaware of the possible consequences.

Am I the only one who thinks that "hosting" a Zarqawi meeting at your house is not something that happens randomly or by accident?

11 posted on 06/08/2006 8:35:47 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Lancer_N3502A

Why is FOX the only network to show the Iraqi's dancing in the streets. Oh, never mind.


12 posted on 06/08/2006 8:36:19 AM PDT by MarkeyD (Make Love, Not Cartoons. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: weegee

"Lumpy Riefenstahl" - LOL!


13 posted on 06/08/2006 8:36:21 AM PDT by karnage
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To: neverdem

Move on. org is probably in mourning over there. Sorry Murtha that we didn't read him his rights before we blew his @ss


14 posted on 06/08/2006 8:37:26 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Lancer_N3502A

This @ss hole is only a matyr to all the uneducated, unbathed adolescent fanatical muslum male youth in the world who have nothing else to do in their pathetic lives other than to lie, steal, beat their woman, listen to western music and masturbate to naked ladies.


15 posted on 06/08/2006 8:41:23 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Publius6961
"Of course anyone who brings a child to a terrorist meeting ..."

Maybe it was "Bring a child to work" day in Iraq.

16 posted on 06/08/2006 8:42:15 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: karnage
How about:
Lord Ho Ho

or Axis Mikey

17 posted on 06/08/2006 8:42:29 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: neverdem

I personally wish they had mounted Zarqawi's severed head on a pike and then took the picture. My only regret would have been he wasn't alive when they used a dull rusty knife to cut his f'ing head off.


18 posted on 06/08/2006 8:42:45 AM PDT by el_texicano (Liberals, Socialist, DemocRATS, all touchy, feely, mind numbed robots, useless idiots all)
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To: nikos1121
The Daily KaOticS have been upset that he wasn't brought to justice in a court of law.

Michael Berg is upset that we didn't rehabilitate him with volunteer duty working in a hospital.

19 posted on 06/08/2006 8:44:08 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: nikos1121
What about innocent until proven guilty? I have a very uneasy feeling about the government deciding that capture is too difficult and just "blowing" the suspected building up.

What if a liberal president decided that Free Republic members were "terrorists" and decided to target them with the same action? I certainly do not trust the government to make those kinds of decisions.

:) Flame away... :)

20 posted on 06/08/2006 8:44:29 AM PDT by dousterhout (Curious minds wonder...)
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To: el_texicano

Al Jazeera has run an obituary for Zarqawi.


21 posted on 06/08/2006 8:44:46 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: neverdem
Yahoo news has a link to ABC video clips of Good Morning America where they immediately spin this as no big deal. They say he was a lone thug with a tiny group that only joined Al Queda in 2004. They say it will have no effect on the insurgency.

Well, the fact the political ramifications were immediate and dramatic with the cabinet posts being filled seems to have escaped their keen journalistic minds.

What anti-American Democratic tool hacks. Busy already spinning this as either no big deal or a defeat- They think even more viscious people could take over.
I wonder if they are flying the flag at half staff today?
23 posted on 06/08/2006 8:45:27 AM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local communist or socialist party chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing.)
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To: weegee

Murtha is upset that we didn't read him his rights first...


24 posted on 06/08/2006 8:45:33 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: buffyt

That pig, Moore, would never have been allowed in Zarq's presence ... swine flesh, etc.


25 posted on 06/08/2006 8:46:12 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: dousterhout

Waking up your sleeper cell account? You've posted this to 2 threads and it is only the third post you've made since 2001.


26 posted on 06/08/2006 8:46:21 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: dousterhout

We don't flame the pathetic.


27 posted on 06/08/2006 8:49:15 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: dousterhout

Go away.


28 posted on 06/08/2006 8:51:15 AM PDT by dfwgator (Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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To: weegee

The account has been suspended ...


29 posted on 06/08/2006 8:51:39 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: weegee

The DU'er is gone.

Some of them have accounts over here and pop in at the most inopportune moments to spill their bile.


30 posted on 06/08/2006 8:51:53 AM PDT by Deo volente
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To: wardaddy; Joe Brower; Cannoneer No. 4; Criminal Number 18F; Dan from Michigan; Eaker; Jeff Head; ...
Army Officer Refuses Iraq Duty (Calls War Unjust, Army Refuses To Accept His Resignation) Maybe a future senator.

For 9/11 Widows (Coulter's) Book Adds Insult to Injury That's tough.

From time to time, I’ll ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs. FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

31 posted on 06/08/2006 8:58:21 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem; Dog; Dog Gone; backhoe; Cindy; Mo1; nutmeg; Ernest_at_the_Beach
The NY Slimes calls the mass murdering Z pig an insurgent.

Hi. My name is Abu Boohoo Zarqawi and I'm dead now.

Which al Qaeda Son of a pig is next? We will find your "Safe House" and send you to hell to be with the Z pig!

32 posted on 06/08/2006 9:00:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: finnman69

So, tell me. Did the Minutemen take Brit Redcoats, execute them, mutilate their bodies, and then hang them from the Concord Bridge?

Rhetorical Question for Mooreon.


33 posted on 06/08/2006 9:02:55 AM PDT by sauropod ("Heaven on my left, Hell on my right and the Angel of Death behind me" - Dune)
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To: neverdem

WOOOOOOOOT!!!!!


34 posted on 06/08/2006 9:06:11 AM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: weegee; All
Waking up your sleeper cell account? You've posted this to 2 threads and it is only the third post you've made since 2001.

LOL! So I went to confirm your finding. What do I find?

"This account has been banned or suspended." LOL!

35 posted on 06/08/2006 9:10:26 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem; Darksheare; scott0347; timpad; Conspiracy Guy; NYC GOP Chick; MeekOneGOP; Fedora; OSHA; ..

we now present you with this "I'm sure most of you have already heard the good news" PING!


36 posted on 06/08/2006 9:10:46 AM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: neverdem

Actually he double posted his "flame away" trolling twice to the SAME thread.

His post from 2001 was pre-911 and concerned golf.


37 posted on 06/08/2006 9:11:33 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: King Prout

Hi. My name is Abu Boohoo Zarqawi and I'm dead now.

Happy Iraqis celebrate the death of Z Pig:

Which al Qaeda Son of a pig is next? We will find your "Safe House" and send you to hell to be with the Z pig!

38 posted on 06/08/2006 9:11:37 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: neverdem

the details on how they zeroed in on him should be interesting...if they are ever released.


39 posted on 06/08/2006 9:11:45 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: stylin19a
ah...gots to read the article....

Mr. Maliki said the attack that killed Mr. Zarqawi had resulted from a tip that came from Iraqi civilians in the area, which lies in a province, Diyala, that has an evenly balanced population of Shiite and Sunni Arabs, as well as Kurds
40 posted on 06/08/2006 9:13:25 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: finnman69
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are..."

It will be a grand day when little Michael goes off to join them in Hell.

41 posted on 06/08/2006 9:15:13 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: dousterhout

Zarqawi declared himself to be a terrorist, and declared himself to be at war with America and the government of Iraq. Nothing wrong with decapitation strikes in a war.


42 posted on 06/08/2006 9:18:16 AM PDT by discostu (get on your feet and do the funky Alphonzo)
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To: Alexander Rubin

As Emeril would say - BAM!


43 posted on 06/08/2006 9:19:29 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Mexico: America's Palestine)
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To: King Prout

Up all night! WOO HOO!


44 posted on 06/08/2006 9:19:52 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: neverdem

The benefits of killing this scumbag will continue to pile up. It will force the anti American swine in the left to once again put on a fake smile that will fool nobody and lose them a little more ground. More people will look at the ratmedia and the rat party and see through both of them. Maybe berg's father will get more votes than the rat in his race ( at large CD in Delaware ). Maybe those quisling pieces of shiite surrender murtha and mother sheehan will say some more stupid crap that will benefit us.


45 posted on 06/08/2006 9:22:05 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (John Spencer: Fighting to save America from Hillary Clinton..)
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To: MEG33

Rush just played The Gap Band "Dropped A Bomb" as bumper music...


46 posted on 06/08/2006 9:23:00 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: jmaroneps37

There is a treasure trove of information that came from this catch.

They conducted raids on other terrorist cells.

The number 3 man at AQ is dead.


47 posted on 06/08/2006 9:24:19 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: neverdem
The only favor for Mr. Zarqawi....bury him DEEP to give him a head start
48 posted on 06/08/2006 9:24:58 AM PDT by tophat9000 (If it was illegal French Canadians would La Raza back them? Racist back their race over country)
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To: jmaroneps37

Rush played some interview clips with Michael Berg. Even the anchors seemed to find his statements incredulous.

He doesn't even believe that Zarqawi is dead. "Do you trust everything you see on tv?"


49 posted on 06/08/2006 9:25:28 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: tophat9000

Give him some pork rinds. He may get hungry.


50 posted on 06/08/2006 9:25:56 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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