Posted on 05/25/2005 9:47:24 PM PDT by Deetes
BAGHDAD, May 25 -- Insurgents said Wednesday in interviews and statements on the Internet that the leader of the group al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, was struggling with a gunshot wound to the lung. One of Zarqawi's commanders said the Jordanian guerrilla was receiving oxygen, heightening suspicion that the groundwork was being laid for an announcement of his replacement or death.
In the volatile western province of Anbar, meanwhile, U.S. Marines clashed with gunmen in their second major offensive there this month. A combined U.S. and Iraqi force of roughly 1,000 troops killed 10 insurgents as it began a sweep of Haditha, the U.S. military said. The offensive followed an increase in insurgent attacks on Marines posted at a dam near that small city, 125 miles northwest of Baghdad.
Among the 10 dead fighters was a man identified by residents as a Muslim cleric who was shot as he fired on troops with an AK-47 assault rifle, the U.S. military said in a statement.
On the second day of reporting about Zarqawi's condition, insurgents offered no tangible evidence that he had suffered a potentially fatal wound. Some of Zarqawi's rank-and-file fighters and one of his top lieutenants have said he was wounded in an ambush by U.S. Marines and Iraqi forces over the weekend around the western city of Ramadi. A U.S. military official, Lt. Col. David Lapan, said Wednesday that he had found no record of such an ambush.
The insurgents' accounts suggested that steady U.S. and Iraqi military pressure was taking a toll on Zarqawi's group. In an interview Tuesday, the Zarqawi lieutenant, Abu Karrar, said his group was weighing both foreigners and Iraqis as possible successors to Zarqawi if he died.
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Agree....false flag indeed. But just the thought of the sorry POS with a sucking chest wound makes me all warm and fuzzy....they hurt like hell. I figure if he ain't there he may as well get a preview of the pain awaiting him and his followers.
Doom on that little prick.......
I too want to have proof . Like his HEAD !!!
What's worse, is his HMO doesn't cover bullet wounds to the lung, so he'll have to see an out-of-plan doctor.
Then I want his corpse ground into dust, mixed with pig entrails, and burned.
But...that's just me.
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I see you run out of beer too....:o)
Maybe he's pulled a John Kerry and shot himself....
And the method the Wapost used for fact checking this was .................?
Run out of beer?
Perish the thought.
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...and something else.
LOL......I don't let it happen too often but it caught me short tonight. Oh well.....early to bed early to get beer.......:o)
Later !
Without a chest tube in he runs the risk of infection due to an occlusive dressing or a tension pnemo. 02 will do him no good with a shifted mediastinum. Hope they have no Morphine available.
I have a much better idea.
Have the Iraqis stick his head on a pike planted at the Iraq/Syria border facing Damascus. Make sure it is observed by allied forces at all times, and kill anyone who comes to take it down before, say, 60 days is up.
It worked for my ancestral people when the Damascenes decided to chop off the head of our ambassador. We came over and stomped them so hard that they stayed in the 14th century for 500 years. Among other things, we used to stick their heads on pikes (or in neat piles) outside the conquered cities as a warning to all who sought to screw with us.
Obviously he has Kaiser-Permanente for a HMO.
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This off the BBC
In Iraq, a text message was circulating on mobile phones celebrating the injury and congratulating whoever had inflicted it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4579885.stm
Thats funny !!!
Zarqawi, was struggling with a gunshot wound to the lung.
Islam Has the best Medical Doctors in the World.
Pour a little gun Powder on the festering wound and light it with a match.
then cleanse the Puss filled hole with Goat urine.
and in a week Hell be right as Rain.
Heads on pikes tend to be a universal language. Very, very effective, too - at least historically, they have been.
Even with a chest tube, without a modern medical facility he's likely to die a slow, painful, agonzing death.
Good!
Thorastic surgery = very painful.
Lung shot = pain and broken ribs.
Let's see DNA of this punkass criminal and a criminal trial for him in Fallujah.
Nice to hear it
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