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.
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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
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.
May he both rot, and burn, in hell.
Amen.
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.
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.
Important good news ping!
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!
Typical...
Got you you son of a b!tch!
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?
Why is FOX the only network to show the Iraqi's dancing in the streets. Oh, never mind.
"Lumpy Riefenstahl" - LOL!
Move on. org is probably in mourning over there. Sorry Murtha that we didn't read him his rights before we blew his @ss
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.
Maybe it was "Bring a child to work" day in Iraq.
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.
Michael Berg is upset that we didn't rehabilitate him with volunteer duty working in a hospital.
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... :)
Al Jazeera has run an obituary for Zarqawi.
Murtha is upset that we didn't read him his rights first...
That pig, Moore, would never have been allowed in Zarq's presence ... swine flesh, etc.
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.
We don't flame the pathetic.
Go away.
The account has been suspended ...
The DU'er is gone.
Some of them have accounts over here and pop in at the most inopportune moments to spill their bile.
For 9/11 Widows (Coulter's) Book Adds Insult to Injury That's tough.
From time to time, Ill ping on noteworthy articles about politics, foreign and military affairs. FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

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!
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.
WOOOOOOOOT!!!!!
LOL! So I went to confirm your finding. What do I find?
"This account has been banned or suspended." LOL!
we now present you with this "I'm sure most of you have already heard the good news" PING!
Actually he double posted his "flame away" trolling twice to the SAME thread.
His post from 2001 was pre-911 and concerned golf.

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!
the details on how they zeroed in on him should be interesting...if they are ever released.
It will be a grand day when little Michael goes off to join them in Hell.
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.
As Emeril would say - BAM!
Up all night! WOO HOO!
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.
Rush just played The Gap Band "Dropped A Bomb" as bumper music...
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.
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?"
Give him some pork rinds. He may get hungry.
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