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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Hope the bullet was greased with some bacon grease.
"Show us his head."
F-ckin A.
They wanted WAR.
Give them WAR.
"The Religion of Peace strikes again!"
What a repugnant religion Islam is. It's a disgrace to the word 'religion' and shouldn't even be given this status.
Yup, wait until you have the body.
Just keep shooting bad guys until you come to the right body.
We may have seeded this story ourselves, hoping he'll pop out just to say "I'm not dead yet!" Then we whack him!
"Here, have some morphine and pray that Allah heals you"?
If so, then we must be desperate.
No, an Old Testament sumbitch would say to the WaPo pukes, as the Israelites said to Samson, "What, thirty thousand Philistines? No way! Show us the foreskins!" And so Samson went back to the battlefield and gathered up the 30,000 foreskins in bushel baskets, and brought them to the Israelites.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Slowly suffocating, with agony in every breath, maybe drowing in his own blood. Couldn't happen to a nicer person.
Ummmmm....whack-a-mole with an a-hole? Sounds like a good way to spend a weekend!
So in your construction, he doesn't have the "lung" wound, but he could get a head wound when he sticks it up.
Damn! I'd say somebody was pissed! LOL!
Who did that?
Ghengis Khan, after he tried to start a trade empire and the local caliph first imprisoned, then beheaded, his ambassador. The head was then sent back to Ghengis in a sack.
Unfortunately, the murdered emissary was one of Ghengis' best friends. The Khan tore the non-Turkic Muslim world apart to avenge his murder (and who wouldn't???). By the way, it was the 12th century that the Muslims got stuck in (my typo), and most of the bad press we hear about Ghengis entered "Western history" from the viewpoint of the Muslims, from whom European scholars took information on the state of the rest of the world.
If we capture him, we should inject him with the "truth serum"....try and get all the info out of him and then behead him!
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2884.asp
Even if he's faking it so he can bow out with honor, that's good news...might mean he's had enough and is going to try to escape from Iraq.
Hope it isn't a cover for him to withdraw to an undisclosed location in the world to plan an attack on America.
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