Al-Zarqawi no Jesse James

[Nbadan]

U.S.: Outtakes show al-Zarqawi as poor gunman


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is seen as an inept gunman on a "complete" version of last week's Web video, according to a U.S. military commander.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch on Thursday showed excerpts of the full video, found in a raid in Yusufiya south of Baghdad, that depict al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, and his aides appearing all-thumbs with firearms.

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Lynch showed parts of the "complete video" that pictured the militant leader and what he called "supposedly competent" aides after al-Zarqawi was seen firing the machine gun.

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"It's supposed to be automatic fire. He's shooting single shots one at a time. Something's wrong with his machine gun. He looks down, can't figure it out. He calls his friend to unblock the stoppage and get the weapon firing again."

CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.al.zarqawi)

What? Resurrection and limb re-growth not impressive enough? The evil Al-Zarqawi turns out to be incompetant with a gun. Sound familiar?

[boutons_]

Those "bumbling" insurgents have killed 2400+ US military.

WTF is the US military trying to prove?

The whole fucking Repug Iraq war,
from the lies as justification,
to the low troop levels,
to Abu Graib and Guantanamo,
to assumptions about post-war environment (no insurgency),
to the post-invasion planning,
to how/when to cut and run

.... is one fucking monstrous Repug/military bumbling incompetence.

[RandomGuy]

Dude, anybody can get lucky if you give them enough explosives.

These guys are dying or being captured before the organization can accumulate a lot of experience as a whole.

The staying power of the insurgency so far HAS been due to the inept PR battle and dumb policies of the administration, but the military has been doing their job extremely well from what I have seen.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Why not just show the video throughout all the Arab countries? Should make enrollment numbers drop pretty quickly.

[Nbadan]

Why not just show the video throughout all the Arab countries? Should make enrollment numbers drop pretty quickly.

I think the real point is that Al-Zarqawi isn't the guy running the show in iraq like the DOD would like us to believe. Of Course, if you've been reading this forum for awhile, you already know that. For all we know, that may not even be Al-Zarqawi.

[Nbadan]

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."

KTRE (http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=4859743&nav=2FH5)

Looks like our tax dollars are being used to FINANCE another psy opt program here at home. Isn't Merica' grand?

Did the U.S. invent al-Qaeda boss Zarqawi?


But there is reason to believe that may all be a bunch of hype and disinformation planted by the administration. Western media, according to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, editor of Global Research.ca, have consistently depicted Zarqawi as a brutal terrorist, but said nothing about the Pentagon’s disinformation campaign, which has been known and documented since 2002.

The Washington Post recently published that the role of Zarqawi has been deliberately “magnified” by the Pentagon in an attempt to gain support for the “war on terror.” Chossudovsky said: “The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. ‘Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response,’ one military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: ‘media operations,’ ‘Special Ops (626),’ (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein’s government) and ‘PSYOP,’ the U.S. military term for propaganda work.”

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Also, an internal document produced by U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, says “the Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date.”

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Bailey then organized another subsidiary, Iraqex, which was awarded a $6 million Pentagon contract to begin “an aggressive advertising and PR campaign that will accurately inform the Iraqi people of the coalition’s goals and gain their support.”

ROCKY RIVER TIMES (http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=2&id=13111)

[Yonivore]

where did they 'find' the outtakes
Dick Clark or Ed McMahon had them in a closet, I believe.

[Vashner]

I am sure Boutons and NBAdan can start up a collection to aid there brothers in training.

BTW This is a US LM249 that was most likely taken from a dead soldier or abandoned vehicle.

[JoeChalupa]

The guy is an idiot.

[Extra Stout]

Oops.