Nbadan
06-03-2005, 04:26 AM
IRAQ: FALLUJAH SHEIKH SAYS AL-ZARQAWI DIED ON FRIDAY
Baghdad, 2 June (AKI) - The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah's cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to protect the insurgency leader's tomb from a group of American soldiers patrolling the area.
During a telephone conversation from the city of Fallujah with the Saudi newspaper, Nasir said al-Zarqawi was taken there after being injured in the city of Ramadi around three weeks ago, and may have been treated by two doctors who had worked with his aides in Baghdad. He said the two doctors had stopped a serious haemorrhage in al-Zarqawi's intestines, but that after his condition worsened last week, the militant died on Friday.
Nasir adds that in his will the insurgent leader left the order that no funeral should be held for him and the right to announce his death should be left to the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.
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Link (http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.173437230&par=0)
Ah yes, anyone remember when Al-Zarqawi died the first time (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084)?
The article states "Only two days ago, an audio message attributed to al-Zarqawi was posted on the Internet", so I figured it must have been taped prior to his "death" Friday, right?
But then I read (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/international/middleeast/31iraq.html) that in the recording he takes credit for a double bombing in Hilla on Monday.
So then I figure that the voice on the tape maybe wasn't al-Zarqawi after all...but that means that this (http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=112889)...
Meanwhile, the CIA says it believes an audio message posted on the internet attributed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is authentic.
In the message Iraq’s most wanted militant acknowledged he had been lightly wounded but said he was still fighting in Iraq.
is nothing but bullshit.
In a nutshell, if the voice on the tape took credit for the Hilla double-bombing May 30th and the CIA confirmed the voice as al-Zarqawi's, then al-Zarqawi made the recording after his reported death last Friday which is even more amazing than the limbs he keeps growing back.
Baghdad, 2 June (AKI) - The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah's cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to protect the insurgency leader's tomb from a group of American soldiers patrolling the area.
During a telephone conversation from the city of Fallujah with the Saudi newspaper, Nasir said al-Zarqawi was taken there after being injured in the city of Ramadi around three weeks ago, and may have been treated by two doctors who had worked with his aides in Baghdad. He said the two doctors had stopped a serious haemorrhage in al-Zarqawi's intestines, but that after his condition worsened last week, the militant died on Friday.
Nasir adds that in his will the insurgent leader left the order that no funeral should be held for him and the right to announce his death should be left to the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.
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Link (http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.173437230&par=0)
Ah yes, anyone remember when Al-Zarqawi died the first time (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4446084)?
The article states "Only two days ago, an audio message attributed to al-Zarqawi was posted on the Internet", so I figured it must have been taped prior to his "death" Friday, right?
But then I read (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/international/middleeast/31iraq.html) that in the recording he takes credit for a double bombing in Hilla on Monday.
So then I figure that the voice on the tape maybe wasn't al-Zarqawi after all...but that means that this (http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=112889)...
Meanwhile, the CIA says it believes an audio message posted on the internet attributed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is authentic.
In the message Iraq’s most wanted militant acknowledged he had been lightly wounded but said he was still fighting in Iraq.
is nothing but bullshit.
In a nutshell, if the voice on the tape took credit for the Hilla double-bombing May 30th and the CIA confirmed the voice as al-Zarqawi's, then al-Zarqawi made the recording after his reported death last Friday which is even more amazing than the limbs he keeps growing back.