Posted on 11/22/2004 2:13:46 PM PST by demlosers
Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the suspected al-Qaida leader in Iraq, was spotted south of the northern Iraqi oil-center of Kirkuk, reports said Monday.
The daily al-Taakhi, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani, quoted a police source in Kirkuk as saying Zarqawi had fled the battles in Fallujah to northern Iraq and might have been wounded.
"Zarqawi was able to sneak out of Fallujah with the help of his followers and moved in stages to the province of Toz Khormatu, south of Kirkuk," said the source, who was not identified.
He said Zarqawi was seen riding in an ambulance and heading towards southern Kirkuk, 260 kilometers (162 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops battled for more than a week against suspected Iraqi insurgents and Zarqawi's followers in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in an attempt to out them from the Sunni city.
Zarqawi, a Jordanian, and his followers are blamed for the kidnapping and beheading of foreigners and for terrorist bombing attacks targeting Iraqi police and U.S.-led multinational forces.
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Someone tell the left wing media that Bush's strategy for pushing the killers out of Fallujah has already forced a Zarquai sighting.
His days are much shorter now, thanks to our soldiers and marines. And no thanks to the corrupt liberal media.
What a celebration there is gonna be when this one is nailed. And I don't want him taken alive. I want one of our finest to have the privilege of doing him in. Then I hope we'll post his dead buttface all over the internet. In fact, I hope we hijack e Al-Jazeera just for this purpose....
Red Cross/Red Crescent again? They love to help terrorists.
And Osama's working at the corner 7-11. I only want to read the after action report of his death.
W...go get him
OOOH, let's hope and pray when OUR FINEST do find him it will be a slow and painful death.
We take him alive annie....he will give us the whole terrorist network...up to and including Osama's location.
If he is in the courtryside or in a smaller town it will be easier to get him. Lord let it be so. Parley
I hope that smarmy bastard Kevin Sites is there, camera in hand, videotape rolling, documenting what the media describes as the "hideous killing of an innocent Arab".
Somebody should quick tell the Marines.
isnt Kirkuk a Kurdish area? (not sure)
if so it probably is not a safe place for the beheader.
Right you are. This guy, like all terrorists, is a coward who will fold like a cheap card table.
Zarqoward's days are numbered now. I remember when they started having Saddam sightings everywhere, wasn't long before they got him.
It's a religion of peace. Did you miss the memo?
your time is coming my friend...I pray you meet one of our SpecOps boys in a cold dark alley and that he shows you the same mercy you have shown the hostages you have decapitated.
I hope we have the Iranian border covered ......it sounds like he is running for there.
Killing him puts him out of his misery, and destroys intelligence information we could possibly get if we humiliated him enough.
That eliminates north of Kirkuk. Now for the rest of the globe!
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