Posted on 6/11/2006, 12:53:24 AM by doug from upland
SPECIAL NOTE: buyer beware on this property. It is being sold in "AS-IS" condition and the buyer is expected to hire his own professional to conduct an independent evaluation of its condition.
OWNER DISCLOSURE (Disclosure prepared by relatives; owner is deceased):
ROOF: missing
WALLS: missing
FLOORS: missing
CEILINGS: missing
PLUMBING: missing
WINDOWS: missing
DOORS: missing
HEATING: missing
AIR CONDITIONING: missing
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: The property recently had something very large fall on it. There still remains a slight odor of goat urine, but a little elbow grease and Mr. Clean should take care of that. There is also a considerable amount of blood. This is a rare opportunity for a smart investor.
TERMS: Cash, cash to new loan, owner will carry, creative exchange, lease option.
COMMISSION: 4% to selling agent; for a full price offer, selling agent will also receive a bonus of his choice of 3 goats or a trip to the United States to see an American Idol concert
How they zeroed in to kill Zarqawi ~ F-16's called in for the final strike
The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | June 10, 2006 | Craig Gordon in Washington
Posted on 06/10/2006 11:20:03 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
N THE late afternoon sky over Iraq, two F-16 pilots were "in the orbit", as the US Air Force calls it, cruising through a routine patrol about to become anything but.
Their radios crackled. A "high-value target" - military-speak for a terrorist big shot - was in an isolated safe house in a date palm grove below. Here are the co-ordinates, they heard. Prepare to engage. As the pilots swung towards Baquba, the most wanted man in Iraq probably did not even notice the fighter jets, kept kilometres away, or realise he had been betrayed by an ally and trailed by US special forces.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - the face of the Iraqi insurgency, beheader of hostages and bomber of civilians, a man whose taste for violence made him stand out even in a violent land - never saw it coming.
The first 227-kilogram, guided bomb hit the safe house at 6.15pm on Wednesday, Baghdad time. The pilots doubled back and decided not to take any chances. They dropped a second satellite-guided bomb "to ensure the target set was serviced appropriately", an air force general said.
Zarqawi, his spiritual adviser, Sheik Abu Abdul-Rahman, and four others were dead - after a week-long investigation.
Through tips from a leader in Zarqawi's network, and other sources, the US was onto Abdul-Rahman, who inadvertently led coalition forces to the house.
Zarqawi's capture or death was a priority for US troops in Iraq. The Jordanian terrorist, in his late 30s, had risen almost to Osama bin Laden's stature, in terms of US attention.
Zarqawi and his aides had been hunted by an elite and secretive team of US special forces - Task Force 77. They nearly apprehended him several times, most recently in April during raids near Yusufiyah in the south.
Now US officials say his capture happened through some old-style investigations and breaks. There were varying reports of how Zarqawi was tracked down.
Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who announced on Thursday morning that Zarqawi had been "eliminated", credited tips from residents in Baquba, north-east of Baghdad. And Iraq's Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, suggested Zarqawi had slipped up trying to gain publicity, saying officials "pinpointed" his location in a video released in late April.
And in a crucial breakthrough last month, Jordanian intelligence officers captured a mid-level Zarqawi operative near the Iraqi border.
The operative, Ziad Khalaf al-Kerbouly, used his position as an Iraqi customs clearance officer in Rutbah, along the main road from Amman to Baghdad, to help Zarqawi smuggle cash and materiel for the insurgency.
Kerbouly told Jordanian interrogators the identity and contacts for Zarqawi's spiritual adviser, who served as his liaison to Muslim clerics across Iraq, gathering recruits, funding and support for the insurgency.
Major-General Bill Caldwell, a US military spokesman in Baghdad, declined to comment about Jordanian help on Thursday. By his account, the capture or killing of al-Qaeda lieutenants in recent weeks, beginning with a cell leader in Yusufiyah on April 6, produced critical intelligence.
Task Force 77 located Abdul-Rahman and kept him under surveillance, partly by remote-controlled planes. When US forces knew the adviser would meet Zarqawi on Wednesday night, they decided to strike.
"We knew exactly who was there," General Caldwell said. "We knew it was Zarqawi, and that was who we went to get."
Shown from above in a military photograph, the house appeared to be a white, two-storey structure with a verdant courtyard, located beside ploughed fields and a paved road at the edge of a date palm forest. No other buildings were nearby.
US officials say his dead body was photographed as evidence within minutes of the strike.
Hibhib?
Hooray!
The government has so far refused to allow Zarqawi to be buried in Jordan because of the triple suicide bombing last November that was carried out in Amman, the Jordanian capital, by members of his al-Qaeda organisation. Sixty people, mainly Jordanian Muslims, died in the attacks.
The United States Embassy in Baghdad was yesterday also uncertain what would happen to Zarqawi's corpse once the forensic tests had been completed on it, referring questions to the American military, which is presently holding it.
In one sense at least, Zarqawi has already been buried. Several hundred jihadis from around the country arrived at the funeral tent set up by his family to mourn him on the day following his death, in keeping with Islamic custom.
As darkness fell, a man who described himself as a senior jihadi commander stood on a stool and asked all of those present to swear allegiance to the new leader. He named him as Abu Abdul Rahman al-Iraqi, Zarqawi's deputy emir inside Iraq, the same man who announced the 'good tidings' of Zarqawi's martyrdom.
Abu Abdul Rahman al-Iraqi needs to be killed immediately.
Don't forget the House and property were carefully scrutinized by folks dropping out of the sky from black helicopters....
You forgot, ladies undergarments included (as is).
You forgot the "Neighborhood Watch Program" directed by Muhammed Ahmed, busybody neighbor and sometimes designated "witness" for the Associated Press America bashers.
Inspection of destroyed house also finds magazines, militant propaganda
al-Zarqawi songs ---
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Several hundred jihadis from around the country arrived at the funeral tent set up by his family to mourn him on the day following his death, in keeping with Islamic custom.
As darkness fell, a man who described himself as a senior jihadi commander stood on a stool and asked all of those present to swear allegiance to the new leader.
Now THAT was a target of opportunity gone to waste!
No shite tet68!
Special sale.
Beautiful building lot surrounded by Palm trees. Already excavated for septic system.
I almost had the listing as a lot, but a house was more fun.
Good one Doug. Are there any liens on the property?
Semper Fi'
Jarhead
No photo?
Well, the walls leaned before they fell down.
Oh there it is. Took a while to load.
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