Rumors Mount Over the Fate of Al-Zarqawi

Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2005 May 25 | Jamie Tarabay

[Old Sarge]

The spokesman for Iraq's largest Shiite political group said it had unconfirmed information that al-Zarqawi was dead.

"He was killed in western Iraq," said Haitham al-Husseini, an aide to Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. "But we need more time to be able to confirm."

Wow. If SCIRI is leaking this, there may be something up more than we think. More to come, I assume.

[Righty_McRight]

He's probably faking his death so he can setup operations somewhere else. I'll believe it when I see a body.

[Fam4Bush]

Would you settle for a head?

_{(Sorry; I'm not usually this morbid, but an eye-for-an-eye seems justified here...)}

[SevenofNine]

COOL Dude is on my dead pool

Hey OLDSarge I hear he got shot in the lung according to Wash Post in Thursday run

[Deetes]

From 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

LOL

[Righty_McRight]

I wonder if he was shot by our troops, or if he was hurt in a Newsweek riot.

[John Lenin]

He isn't dead until I see the fat virgin sing.

[kayak]

bttt

[konaice]

He was killed - We need more time to confirm....
Sounds like someone is not too sure.

If true also sounds like Operation Matador was a roaring success.


Bring me the head...

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

I was kinda hoping for a weeping gutshot that would painfully incapacitate but not quite kill him, preferably out in the desert near a big anthill.

But you can't have everything, so I'll take a lung shot, especially if it involves a lot of coughing.

[Paleo Conservative]

I hope he gets an infection in his lungs and has a slow agonizing death.

[ARCADIA]

Would you settle for a head?

That would be a good start.

[goldstategop]

If he's dead, Jim - then rumors of his being still around are greatly exaggerated!

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[SuziQ]

I will pray heartily that the Lord delivers justice upon al Zarqawi. How He does that is His business.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

He's just resting...

[xJones]

He's probably faking his death so he can setup operations somewhere else.

Yeah, when all you have is Muslim rumors to go on, the truth is usually the opposite of what they're saying. Muslims don't trust each other, and for a very good reason.

[MJY1288]

I have a rumor for the Islamo fascists..... Abu Musab al-Zarqawi died of AIDS in the arms of Michael Jackson at Never Never Land. 72 Gay Clerics await him

[Old Sarge]

I've heard the same thing, but can't confirm it.

[Old Sarge]

No, no, he's stuned. Yeah! The Marines stuned his beeber just as he was wkaing up!