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US Command unveils unflattering video snippet of al-Qaida in Iraq leader
AP ^ | May 4 2006

Posted on 05/04/2006 8:36:35 AM PDT by jmc1969

Newly released video of the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq shows Abu Musab al-Zarqawi decked out in American tennis shoes and fumbling with a machine gun.

The US military command says the footage was found during a series of raids in April on purported terror cell safe houses southwest of Baghdad.

Major General Rick Lynch says al-Zarqawi chose not to show the world this piece of video in which he's wearing "his New Balance tennis shoes," and in which his associates "do things like grab the hot barrel of the machine gun and burn themselves."

(Excerpt) Read more at ktre.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaidainiraq; iraq; videotape; zarqawi
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1 posted on 05/04/2006 8:36:37 AM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Like the picture of Algore looking down the barrel of the M-16.


2 posted on 05/04/2006 8:37:48 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: jmc1969

He doesn't have to know how to use a gun, just how to lead.


3 posted on 05/04/2006 8:39:07 AM PDT by sheana
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To: jmc1969

This seriously needs to be broadcast all over the world constantly. Their supposed strength, purity, and deadliness is a huge part of their salability to young thugs. Showing them as bumblers in sneakers could be quite powerful.


4 posted on 05/04/2006 8:39:50 AM PDT by wizardoz
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To: jmc1969
Keystone Kops with guns and explosives...

It is reassuring to know these clowns actually expect to be able to use nuclear weapons... the "high maintenance" siren in the muslim house of ill repute.

5 posted on 05/04/2006 8:43:25 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: wizardoz
This seriously needs to be broadcast all over the world constantly.

I'm sure it will appear on the Pentagon TV channel, and on the 'net. Other than that, I doubt many media outlets will be interested -- they have too much of their prestige invested in making the idiots look like giants of the battlefield.

6 posted on 05/04/2006 8:43:51 AM PDT by 68skylark
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To: jmc1969

This common criminal, and that's really all he is, set himself up as some kind of shiek. And as we know hundreds of thousands of stupid ill eductated goons look up to him as some kind of hero. I do hope he will be captured alive and displayed to the world as just what he is. A common criminal, and murder.


7 posted on 05/04/2006 8:44:20 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: jmc1969

Argh! There's no link to the video!


8 posted on 05/04/2006 8:45:01 AM PDT by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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To: wizardoz

Can not do it. Might offend Muslims.

< /sarcasm>


9 posted on 05/04/2006 8:55:10 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: jmc1969
Oops -
10 posted on 05/04/2006 9:02:21 AM PDT by Jake The Goose (Come on Rudy)
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To: jmc1969

Zarqawi and related goofs are either stupid or high all of the time.

And since they are such chicken-s**** I'm assuming they are high all of the time to get their courage up and running.


11 posted on 05/04/2006 9:10:09 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ICE, ICE Baby.)
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Pity the poor al-Qaida videographer who forgot to delete those outtakes! :0)
Video Technician: "Cut! Zarqawi, that's a wrap!"
Zarqawi: "OK, good. [ahem] You taped over the bad parts, right?"
Video Technician: "Would I lie to you?"

12 posted on 05/04/2006 9:16:28 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
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To: Marine_Uncle
He is a mass murderer not just a typical common criminals. His crime involve the killing or injuring of thousands of innocents Iraqi civilians
13 posted on 05/04/2006 9:40:40 AM PDT by jveritas (Hate can never win elections.)
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To: jmc1969

So where's the video?


14 posted on 05/04/2006 9:45:07 AM PDT by subterfuge (Call me a Jingoist, I don't care...)
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To: subterfuge

Here's the video:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=1922602

dung.


15 posted on 05/04/2006 9:50:39 AM PDT by Moose Dung (Appeasement is a fools game.)
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To: subterfuge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwrwqv4ArSQ


16 posted on 05/04/2006 9:52:09 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: jveritas
"He is a mass murderer not just a typical common criminals. His crime involve the killing or injuring of thousands of innocents Iraqi civilians."
Understand. I should have better qualified his crimes.
17 posted on 05/04/2006 10:03:09 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: Jake The Goose

Maybe he should switch to these...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3GReMtfWg&search=gun%20comedy

dung.


18 posted on 05/04/2006 10:15:51 AM PDT by Moose Dung (Appeasement is a fools game.)
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To: jmc1969

That Zarqawi dude looks like he fancies himself to be the sand dune Rambo.


19 posted on 05/04/2006 10:29:15 AM PDT by Lekker 1 ("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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To: neodad

And it wasn't even loaded!


20 posted on 05/04/2006 12:49:53 PM PDT by ops33 (Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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