Bin Laden henchman ‘seriously wounded’ (New Info)

Times Online ^ | May 15, 2005 | Hala Jaber and Ali Rifat, Baghdad

[righttackle44]

"An IV bag full of potassium chloride would have stopped the bleeding just fine."

We're on the right track. Don't want him seriously wounded. Want him seriously dead.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

He could still die a slow lingering painful death.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The one leg thing was never confirmed, personally I doubt it was true.

I dunno. I heard there was a lawsuit after a leg turned up in a bowl of falafel in downtown Falluja a few years back.

[CHARLITE]

"The one leg thing was never confirmed, personally I doubt it was true."

I heard about the leg amputation over and over again from all print MSM, network and cable starting in June of 2003 when the "insurgency" began. It was a standard auxiliary to any story mentioning Al-Zarkawi. They'd say, "....the Jordanian-born terrorist who was severely wounded when fighting with Hamas in Lebanon, and whose leg was amputated in a Baghdad hospital......."

I'm just trying to visualize a guy limping around like Jumpin' Jack Flash on a prosthesis and still eluding our Special Ops night and day.

Either he's got one of them-thar Lindsay Wagner "Bionic Woman" legs with batteries and spring coils in it, or he's Peter Pan............like Michael Jackson is......getting away with crimes all day long.......

Char :)

[gandalftb]

I don't believe it. An Iraqi not accepting cash? An Iraqi doctor ratting out Zarqawi? And not already beheaded? And not taken into custody by our troops for questioning? All this detail and no description by the attending doctor about the wounds, bullets, shrapnel, burns? Bleeding profusely after the long trip to the hospital and now he's ready to travel? What treatment was performed? Well dressed escorts would tip off every turncoat Iraqi in Anbar province.

I posted this earlier from the enemy: "In a dispatch posted at 9:34am Mecca time Friday morning: "US aircraft dropped leaflets over the area of al-Karabilah and ar-Rummanah north of al-Qa’im, calling on Resistance fighters to surrender. American leaflets claimed that the Resistance commanders Abu ‘Abd ar-Rahman al-‘Iraqi, Abu Jalal, and Abu Khattab had been killed in the battle and that Abu Mus‘ab az-Zarqawi had been seriously wounded."

Just like Zarqawis missing leg, then he outruns our guys across the desert. Zarqawi the invincible. They are laying a mythical status on him like they do UBL. They want to be sure he's more valuable dead and they know we'll likely get the job done soon. Sounds like loose talk for now.

[savedbygrace]

I vote for the latter. Maybe one of his underlings said, "Hey boss, maybe they'll stop looking for you if they think you're dead." And Zarcowie says, "Sure, maybe, worth a try. Only don't really kill me, you stupid ling, you."

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Interesting also was the comment about his escorts being well dressed.

His protection now being provided by the Nation of Islam?

[Sacajaweau]

The dudes with him asked for a prescription??? Hmmmm That little quip makes me think illogically...like this might be a phony story.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Uhm, I think I could ID the guy myself...

[Optimist]

Where was he bleeding?

Didn't you read the article?

In a Ramadi hospital!

(/sarcasm)

[ChadGore]

Ramadi hospital !? What is it ?

A Hospital in Iraq, but that's not important right now.(c)Airplane

[freedumb2003]

Ramadi hospital !? What is it ?

A big building with doctors and sick people in it....

[Vermont Lt]

And I wonder if they asked for the generic name of the perscription, because a lot of HMOs wont pay for the brand if a generic is available.

Do they just go down to the local CVS or Rite-aid? I guess the CIA wouldnt be all over that... Why didnt they just drug him up at the hospital?

[Petruchio]

Where was he bleeding?

The article did not say. My personal belief is he was shot in the ass.

[Optimist]

Where was he bleeding?
The article did not say. My personal belief is he was shot in the ass.

see post 50

[dr_who_2]

Good!

[Optimist]

Ramadi hospital !? What is it ?
A big building with doctors and sick people in it....

But that's not important....

[Jacob Kell]

One could only hope.

[OKIEDOC]

I sure like the posts I find on FR.

Even the ones that use such naughty terms are funny sometimes.

[null and void]

How has a man with an artificial leg been able to "skip out" on our special ops forces, for so long?

He hitchhikes. People are always telling him to 'hop in'....