Posted on 06/08/2006 2:17:06 PM PDT by MikeA
If you are looking for the legacy of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, do not look in the concrete rubble of so-called safe house in Baqubah that became his final resting place. Instead, look less than 10 miles to the west, on the side of the road in the desert town of Hadid, for a pile of cardboard banana boxes.
Inside those boxes were nine human heads.
Some of the heads still had their blindfolds on. Iraqi police are still attempting to identify the murdered men.
Days earlier, in Baquba, Iraqi police found another eight severed heads. One of those heads belonged to a prominent Sunni Muslim imam, who preached peace and tolerance.
For the past few weeks, U.S. military intelligence analysts had seen a spike in beheadings—a specialty of the Zarqawi network.
Of course, Zarqawi will be remembered chiefly as a beheader. He apparently enjoyed wielding the knife and slowly hacking off the head of Nicholas Berg of West Chester, Pa. In a video that Zarqawi’s followers proudly posted on the Internet, Berg screams in pain in seven long minutes as Zarqawi saws through his neck.
Zarqawi also is believed to have beheaded Eugene Armstrong of Hillsdale, Mich.
Zarqawi is also believed to have beheaded Ken Bigley, the Liverpool, U.K.-based engineer who came to Iraq “to help people,” in October 2004.
Now it is Zarqawi’s own head that is capturing the world’s attention. Displaying his head has several immediate benefits: it boosts the morale of Iraqi police and military officers, who have been taking increased casualties in the past few weeks and were spooked by the Zarqawi video released last month. In that video, Zarqawi made a point of firing an M-4 and an M-249—two automatic weapons that are only used by U.S. forces. If he can take guns from the hands of Americans he killed and turn those weapons against the world’s sole remaining superpower, maybe Zarqawi is invincible after all. Yesterday’s air strike has already reversed the downward spiral of Iraqi police morale, one source told me.
Nor can Zarqawi be easily replaced. He had a kind of rogue-ish charisma that resonated in the Arab world. He was featured in Arabic-language pop songs and feted on Arabic soap operas. His persona drew hundreds of Saudis, Syrians and other foreigners to fight alongside him in Iraq. There is simply no one else in the organization who has his aura.
At the very least, the beheadings and suicide attacks will decline sharply.
Mr. Miniter is author of Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror and "Losing bin Laden."
Indeed! I say:
1.sever his head
2.strip him naked
3.point his ass towards Mecca
4.place head on ass
5.douse with pigs blood....That ought to do it!
Amen. and that is the final story isn't it.
I can hear it now--terrorists demand pork free bombs, LOL!
Oh the atrocity!
Monster betrayed by closest allies (Zarqawi location tipped off by captured deputies) {Why the libs don't want WOT prisoners questioned!}
"Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey...!"
Hi. My name is Abu Boohoo Zarqawi and I'm dead now.
Happy Iraqis celebrate the death of Z Pig:
When the Z Pig entered hell, he found out that his 72 virgins were clones of Helen Thomas. They are having their way with him now.
Which al Qaeda Son of a pig wants to be the next Z Pig? We will find your "Safe House" and send you to hell to be with the original Z pig! Your 72 Helen Thomas Virgins are waiting for you.
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No Problem! Here comes your Bomb!
Z Pig replacements! Enjoy your eternity in hell with your special 72 virgins!
The Eagle Flys!
Yea, and doing that thing with the tongue the women do. Let the press get that and broadcast it.
Well, he went out with a bang.
72 Virginia hams.
We need a doug from upland type who speaks Arabic to write parodies that we can bombard their radios with and play aloud from their minarets.
Indeed.
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Very nice, looks great!
Mike, thank you for saying what I was feeling. This guy doesn't deserve a minute of publicity......but of course he'll get all he wants from the Lamestream Media and anyone with the sense of a pissant will see right through this moron. He didn't deserve to be a father!
Weren't there a number of kidnappings from buses recently (like within the last 2 weeks)? These may be the people the pig recently beheaded?
Bury him up to his neck in a pit of pig feces...
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