Nbadan
05-05-2005, 02:16 AM
U.S. officials gave no details as to why they believe Zarqawi may be sick or injured. But U.S. military authorities were quoted this month as saying that Zarqawi had left medical information about himself on a laptop computer that was seized Feb. 20 in his closest known call with American pursuers.
When his car was pulled over at a checkpoint outside Ramadi, Zarqawi fled on foot, leaving behind the laptop, photos of himself and contacts, officials said.
A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, confirmed Wednesday that officials had "received a tip that there were terrorists in and around the hospital in Ramadi."
U.S. and Iraqi forces "did go to the hospital to act upon the information," Boylan said. He did not confirm that Zarqawi was the target of the raid. The forces left without detaining anyone but were reviewing information from the operation, Boylan said.
In a written statement Friday, Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq group said Americans searched all the rooms down to the air-conditioning ducts but "were not able to find Sheik Abu Musab Zarqawi, even though he was inside the hospital."
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/04/AR2005050402277.html)
So now, according to 'sources', not only has Zarqawi been reborn, he has also regrown another leg and is now out-running the entire U.S. military. Impressive. Yesterday, Fox new's alter ego, CNN ran the idiotic story about Zarqawi's militia losing moral. Today, he's injured and they caught a so-called #1 ranking Al Qaeda "official". Last week it is reported that Mistress Rice is burying reports that terrorism has risen significantly in 2003. Let's see: the "War on Terrorism" is failing beyond all hope - time to pull out a happy story that the invisible boogy-man is losing; today he's ill, and then, in the most predictable fashion, another bullshit story that Bin Ladin is about to be captured. Oh, and we're also being told how Falluja is now the "safest city in Iraq" (according to the newly acquired propaganda machine, NPR).
When his car was pulled over at a checkpoint outside Ramadi, Zarqawi fled on foot, leaving behind the laptop, photos of himself and contacts, officials said.
A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, confirmed Wednesday that officials had "received a tip that there were terrorists in and around the hospital in Ramadi."
U.S. and Iraqi forces "did go to the hospital to act upon the information," Boylan said. He did not confirm that Zarqawi was the target of the raid. The forces left without detaining anyone but were reviewing information from the operation, Boylan said.
In a written statement Friday, Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq group said Americans searched all the rooms down to the air-conditioning ducts but "were not able to find Sheik Abu Musab Zarqawi, even though he was inside the hospital."
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/04/AR2005050402277.html)
So now, according to 'sources', not only has Zarqawi been reborn, he has also regrown another leg and is now out-running the entire U.S. military. Impressive. Yesterday, Fox new's alter ego, CNN ran the idiotic story about Zarqawi's militia losing moral. Today, he's injured and they caught a so-called #1 ranking Al Qaeda "official". Last week it is reported that Mistress Rice is burying reports that terrorism has risen significantly in 2003. Let's see: the "War on Terrorism" is failing beyond all hope - time to pull out a happy story that the invisible boogy-man is losing; today he's ill, and then, in the most predictable fashion, another bullshit story that Bin Ladin is about to be captured. Oh, and we're also being told how Falluja is now the "safest city in Iraq" (according to the newly acquired propaganda machine, NPR).