Zarqawi's Final Atrocities

Human Events Online ^ | 06/08/06 | Richard Minitier

[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."

[do the dhue]

.He said, "The military, they did ok, but this killing of az Zarqari will mean nothing but more problems. The explosions of IED are the only problem in Iraq,"

That is exactly what the Commie SOB wants. I believe Murtha and the rest of the leaders of the Jackass Party want failure. I am not making anything up to form my belief. It makes me sick to my stomach to think these people put their Jackass Party above our great Nation. I had to rant when I saw that. I am sorry. But the leaders of the Jackasses are nothing short of traitors. I am not afraid to say it. Why can't he say 'our military did an outstanding job' and leave it at that? We have to hear 'good job but'. I don't want to hear it from the Jackasses.

Hey Chevy Chase!!! This just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

and so is Al-Zarqawi.

[popdonnelly]

"I fail to see an aura in that photo. Do you?"

I don't see anything of much value.

[popdonnelly]

"I believe Murtha and the rest of the leaders of the Jackass Party want failure."

Of course they do. It's the self-fulfilling prophecy. We fail, and all the Dems can say, "We told you so." Same thing they did with regard to Vietnam.

[nopardons]

bttt

[NCC-1701]

The picture of that pos that has "cancelled" across the bottom could very well have "owned" on it. The US military, with approval from on high, has owned that murdering, head chopping mo fo. The sob never knew what hit his sorry a$$.

[Texas Songwriter]

The answer to your question is because he and his party now have a vested interest in loosing this war. They want to loose the war. They had their finger in the air for 18 months and then finally chose which side they were on. That was al Zaqaris side, not because they like him, but because they care more about reacquiring power than the national interest of the USA. I really do beleive that is the case. The dems hate America and all that it stands for.

[do the dhue]

If one were to subvert the success of our military, wouldn't one be considered a traitor?

And you know, we only have one real mud slinger (Ann Coulter). The demorats have mud slingers in masses. I am tired of listening to stupid people. Their rhetoric is making me sick. I suppose if we passed a Sedition Act that it would back fire. It did back in the day. The Party that enacted the Sedition Act lost the next election. So, I have to deal with these Commie traitor bastages somehow.

I know!!! I'll get a Lawyer and a Therapist. The Therapist will say that I have Post Traumatic Demoratic Party Stress Disorder - PTDPSD. And my Lawyer can s sue the DNC for every penny they have!

Make me feel good to dream, OK?

[potlatch]

The sob never knew what hit his sorry a$$.

Way too bad, huh?

[NCC-1701]

"...U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs on
his isolated safehouse...."

Wasn't so safe after all, was it?

[do the dhue]

The dems hate America and all that it stands for.

Then I am not alone with how I feel. This is the same perception that I have of the leaders of the Demoratic Party. Therefore, I have not made a thing up and dreamed anything that made me think this way. It is the perception that they are portraying.

I think it is treasonous.

[do the dhue]

"...U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs on his isolated safehouse...." Wasn't so safe after all, was it?

kind of a oxymoron

[NCC-1701]

My heart has been pumping peanut butter all day long for the pile of drek.

[ErnBatavia]

Thanks for the link...I did just that.

[NCC-1701]

You got that right.

[oyez]

I don't see anything of much value.

But what you see is priceless.

[Verginius Rufus]

Mr. Berg is running for Congress as a Green Party candidate, although the seat he wants is currently held by a Republican (Mike Castle). Why isn't he going for the Democrat nomination?

[Prost1]

A very good day. And, I read that the Israelis killed the #2 Hamas bad guy. Something about always getting #2.

Anyhow, a very good day!

[LeoWindhorse]

a couple of old dopers , I'll bet ya anything....
And they try to say there are no future drawbacks resulting from drug use.

[potlatch]

LOL, I 'guess' that makes sense!

[xzins]

This may not be the end, but it is the beginning of the end of the terrorists in Iraq.

General Franks on H&C tonight said that it isn't about this being a victory or not. He said that this is evidence that the plan is working....a gradual wearing down, isolating, and killing the enemy.

He is correct.

The plan is working. And that's all that needs to be said.