Posted on 11/21/2005 10:15:05 AM PST by areafiftyone
Al Qaida chief of operations in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, wears a suicide bomb belt so he can kill himself if capture appears imminent - a practice that apparently drove U.S. forces to suspect that he was one of three terrorists who blew themselves up after they surrounded a safehouse in Mosul on Saturday.
"He has sworn never to be taken alive by the U.S.," ABC newsman Brian Ross reported Monday, adding: "He actually travels with his own suicide explosive belt."
While U.S. officials remain publicly skeptical that Zarqawi was among those killed, DNA tests are continuing in a bid to determine the identities of the three terrorists who committed suicide using explosive devices.
Joint forces backed by U.S. military helicopters surrounded the house after receiving a tip that Zarqawi might be inside, the governor of Nineveh province, Duraid Kashmoula, told the Washington Post.
The Iraqi official put the chances that Zarqawi was among the dead at 30 percent.
Over the past month, Kashmoula told the paper, there has been a series of raids following a surge in tips from Iraqis who have turned on Zarqawi. "Their feeling is that al Qaida in Iraq has overstepped its bounds," he explained.
Zarqawi, who regularly issues public communiqués on audiotape and via the Internet, has not been heard from since Saturday's attack.
Bump
And we all know why....
"I believe our troops captured his computer, as well as a vehicle he was traveling in. All ti takes is a hair."
Thanks.
It is my understanding that when one of these suicide bombers with a bomb strapped to their torso blows himself up, the head and lower legs or feet are still usually relatively intact. Color me skeptical.
go to www.ehowa.com and view some pictures of the results of a suicide bombing. there's still enough left of someone to get a sample, usually. how they compare it to something to confirm is my question, not how they get the sample.
The guy is too much of a coward to "blowed himself up real good". If he does wear one, they only way it'll go off is by accident.
Since when do feathers explode? The belt is probably a dummy.
That's for the "Stuck on Stupid" followers. Just as all elites every where, have one thing in common - do as I say, not as I do, I'm really much too important.
Just what I was thinking : )
We saw him in 2004 remember? Supporting Kerry!
Well there are always some pieces leftover. They can even use the blood and there is plenty of that.
A Thanksgiving day appearence for our troops in Afghanistan maybe.
But, from a PR prespective the best thing he could do right now is go to Iraq 2 to 3 days after the December election to force the media to make it a week long story. If he went to Iraq twice in one month the second time (which is the most important time) would lose the impact and the news coverage.
I heard this morning that we got it from the Iraqi gov't somehow. (?)
I feel that this is just a smokescreen as zarky boogies out of Iraq knowing now that Jordanian SS is after him. Where will he go? I'm thinking Iran, the most dysfunctional psycho country in the region or maybe Syria, where he will find a lot of sympathizers.
Clothes make the man.
He went to Iraq last Thanksgiving.
Perhaps this year he'll go to Afghanistan.
There was nothing in that tape that indicated when it was made.....same with the one where they were all walking around in that dry riverbed with the Toyotas...with absolutly no concern about being spotted on a clear day.
I say November 2001, because that was the tape where they talked about the two planes hitting the towers, and hey they knew they would probably fail.
Perhaps the powers that be hope that after Zarquari, that AQ just fades away
If true, that would be a sweet target.
From a blue burqa.
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