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09:54 Jun 09, '06 (IsraelNN.com) The world became a whole lot safer yesterday, after the US took out Iraqi terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Israel eliminated his Palestinian counterpart, Jamal Abu Samhadana. In both instances, solid intelligence backed by a healthy dose of airpower neutralized these two evil men, whose daily regimens consisted of trying to figure out how to murder as many innocent human beings as possible. Samhadana was far less well-known in the West than al-Zarqawi, but that does not take away from his heinous record of bloodshed, which included attacks on Israeli soldiers and involvement in the...

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AMMAN, Jordan - The family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi asked three Islamist lawmakers to intervene with Jordan's government to bring the slain militant's body home for burial, one of the lawmakers said Saturday. "One of al-Zarqawi's brothers asked us to speak with the government," Ali Abu-Sukkar told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "What the family is asking for is legitimate." The government has so far refused to allow al-Zarqawi to be buried in Jordan because of the triple suicide bombing his al-Qaida in Iraq organization carried out Nov. 9 in Amman, which killed 60 people, mainly Jordanian Muslims....

Look at the calendar. It is only a couple more days until June 12 which marks exactly 152 business hours since Pied Piper Pitt and Truthout assured us that Karl Rove had ALREADY been indicted on May 12. We can expect Pitt to come in for a lot of ribbing on not only the 12th of this month but on the 12th of EVERY month in the future. Yes, the 12th of each month will hear the bells tolling the funeral of Pitt's non-existent political career. Therefore in a DESPERATE bid to resurrect what never was, Pitt is now...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials have altered their account of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, saying he was alive and partly conscious after bombs destroyed his hideout, and an Iraqi man raised fresh questions Saturday about the events surrounding the end of Iraq's most-wanted militant. The man, who lived near the scene of the bombing, claimed in an interview with AP Television News to have seen U.S. soldiers beating an injured man resembling al-Zarqawi until blood flowed from the man's nose. When asked about the man's allegations, military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said he would check. In Washington,...

Insurgent groups mourn al-Zarqawi's deathBy SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 30 minutes ago A woman grieves for her brother who was killed by a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in an outdoor market, killing four people and wounding 27, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 10, 2006. The explosion at the al-Sadriya market missed the police patrol, killing and wounding civilians in this Shiite-Sunni Arab neighborhood in central Baghdad. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni insurgents posted their condolences over Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death on Web sites Saturday and warned Sunnis not to cooperate with the Iraqi...

On a cold and blustery evening in December 1989, Huthaifa Azzam, the teenage son of the legendary Jordanian-Palestinian mujahideen leader Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, went to the airport in Peshawar, Pakistan, to welcome a group of young men. All were new recruits, largely from Jordan, and they had come to fight in a fratricidal civil war in neighboring Afghanistan—an outgrowth of the CIA-financed jihad of the 1980s against the Soviet occupation there. The men were scruffy, Huthaifa mused as he greeted them, and seemed hardly in battle-ready form. Some had just been released from prison; others were professors and sheikhs. None...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could barely speak, but he struggled and tried to get away from American soldiers as he lay dying on a stretcher in the ruins of his hideout. The U.S. forces recognized his face, and knew they had the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. Initially, the U.S. military had said al-Zarqawi was killed outright. But Friday new details emerged of his final moments. For three years, al-Zarqawi orchestrated horrific acts of violence guided by his extremist vision of jihad, or holy war - first against the U.S. soldiers he considered occupiers of Arab lands, then against the Shiites...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could barely speak, but he struggled and tried to get away from American soldiers as he lay dying on a stretcher in the ruins of his hideout. The U.S. forces recognized his face, and knew they had the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. Initially, the U.S. military had said al-Zarqawi was killed outright. But Friday new details emerged of his final moments. For three years, al-Zarqawi orchestrated horrific acts of violence guided by his extremist vision of jihad, or holy war — first against the U.S. soldiers he considered occupiers of Arab lands, then...

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2006 – Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi initially survived the June 7 air strike but died from his wounds while laying on a stretcher shortly thereafter, a senior U.S. military officer in Baghdad said today. Iraqi police were the first people on the scene following the air strike. After finding Zarqawi alive, the police placed him on a stretcher, Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell told Pentagon reporters via a satellite connection today. U.S. forces arrived shortly after and began identification procedures by examining distinguishing marks on his body and by using visual facial-recognition techniques. Zarqawi mumbled a...

MIDI - 500 MILES (Proclaimers version) al-Zarqawi thought he never would be caught...he thought our forces were just never smart enough al-Zarqawi, now the farm he just has bought...and for him his bad hair day turned out really rough al-Zarqawi had been taken by surprise...all up a sudden there's a flash and big kaboom Poor al-Zarqawi, on the gurney he had died...and there was not much left of that guy's living room Twice we would drop 500 pounds...oh, man, it was the sweetest sound In rubble that's where he had been found...his network we're gonna pound al-Zarqawi was as...

More interesting news on the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi still alive after bombingAccording to the Associated Press, al-Zarqawi was still alive when Iraqi police arrived at the scene of the attack. His last sight on earth was of US armed forces while his next sight in eternity was not Paradise, but rather hell. What a way to go. A mortally wounded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still alive and mumbling after American airstrikes on his hideout and tried to get off a stretcher when he became aware of U.S. troops at the scene, a top military official said Friday....Al-Zarqawi could...

By now, everyone knows that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has assumed room temperature, which in the Iraqi summer, is probably more like the temperature in hell. It's a good thing that al-Zarqawi is no stranger to hot temperatures because I have the feeling that he's finding out about now that Allah is a demon. From the Centcom press release: “Ladies and Gentlemen, Coalition Forces killed al-Qaeda terrorist leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and one of his key lieutenants, spiritual adviser Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, yesterday, June 7, at 6:15 p.m. in an air strike against an identified, isolated safe house. “Tips and intelligence from...

By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer 38 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A U.S. military search of the destroyed safehouse where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed yielded documents and information storage devices that are being assessed for potential use against his terror network, a military officer said Friday. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because results from the safehouse search have not been announced, said an M-16 rifle and an unspecified number of grenades and AK-47 rifles also were found. The M-16 was fitted with special optics, the official said.Also found were "media and documents," the officer said,...

As happened with the capture of Saddam Hussein and the "shock and awe" bombing of Baghdad, some American news organizations yesterday covered the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with marked enthusiasm, verging on inappropriate glee. Perhaps the tone was set by the cheering and sustained applause by Iraqis at the Baghdad news conference announcing al-Zarqawi's death. But American television didn't have to follow that gung-ho lead to the extent that some channels did throughout the day. The 24-hour cable news channels and their Web sites were the worst offenders, though other news organizations shared that lack of proportion and restraint....

Spinning Their Way to Defeat June 9th, 2006 The first reaction that most Americans had to news that the Jordanian born terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi was killed in a precision bombing raid by the United States Air Force yesterday was one of elation mixed with a grim satisfaction that a huge obstacle to bringing peace and security to Iraq was permanently removed. It was one of those moments that has occurred so rarely in this war; a triumph of good over evil and a clear cut victory for the United States for which all Americans should be thankful. Not...

"Glad Zarqawi's Gone? Yes or No" seems like a pretty straightforward question but, as we shall see, a "Yes" answer in DUmmieland doesn't really mean a straight "Yes." The "Yes" in DUmmieland is frequently followed by a "But" so that the DUmmies qualify as what Laura Ingraham calls "But Monkeys." In fact there are FEW simple YES answers in DUmmieland which are not followed by numerous caveats by the But Monkeys. So let us now explore the Land of the But Monkeys with their "Yes...but" caveats in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that the...

Photo of al-Zarqawi's head framed like a venerated image, or war trophy WASHINGTON - The frame surrounding an image of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's head, revealed to the world as proof the terrorist is dead, is bizarre. When the picture was displayed at a U.S. military news briefing, Zarqawi's face was seen inside what appeared to be a professional photographic mat job, with a large frame, as if it were something one might preserve and hang on the wall next to other family portraits. One function of frames is to bound an image, and close down its open edges; frames delimit,...

Betrayed by his own people, terror leader dies in 'safe house' rubble... BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Officials say the extermination of al Qaeda's leader in Iraq is a significant victory but warn that terrorists and insurgents would not be deterred by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death. Al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born Sunni militant with a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head, was believed to have the blood of thousands on his hands as leader of the group behind numerous beheadings, assassinations and bombings. Article continues here: in al Zarqawi dead, but..

In a time of increasingly bleak reports out of Iraq, the news that terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has finally been killed, along with several close aides, comes as welcome news to all Americans. More importantly, it should provide a much-needed boost of morale in Iraq as well, among our own troops and among the Iraqi people who have been al-Zarqawi's main victims. "Arguably over the last several years, no single person on this planet has had the blood of more innocent men, women and children on his hands than Zarqawi," is how Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it. "He...