Injured Zarqawi has fled Iraq, UK newspaper says (Maybe Iran)

Reuters ^ | 28 May 2005 21:29:50 GMT | Reuters

[ASA Vet]

First people say he's dead, now they say that he's in Iran. Won't believe anything they say unless the Iraqi or the US government confirms it.

So if one of those two governments confirms he's dead, and then he's in Iran you'll believe it?

[AFPhys]

Dog: make sure you take a look at post#7 this thread.

You probably already know this source but if not ...

[SeaBiscuit]

I'll believe Zarcrapi is dead when they display his rotten corpse on Fox news. In the meantime, may a ravaged syphilitic camel urinate on his wounds and he dies a maddening and excruciating painful slooooowwww death.

[Thumbellina]

Go here. http://trackingalqueda.blogspot.com/ They have posted many more websites by Al-Qaeda. You could spend all day reading this stuff. Use this to post a "I hope you die prayer for Zarqawi". Use this site to translate http://www.systransoft.com/index.html

[Victor]

"....When he became delirious with fever four days later he was taken to hospital in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad....."

How does this guy get to go to a public facility, in this case a hospital, unnoticed? And not turned over to authorities?

Unless the hospital authoritities themselves are part of the "problem"?

Never mind, I think I answered my own question...........

[Dog]

Agreed..it jives/

[Wiz]

There are too many conflicting news these days. It seems the enemy is engaging in a disinformation tactics. However, the enemy was stupid enough that something is going on by using the disinformation tactics.

[Nachoman]

How does this guy get to go to a public facility, in this case a hospital, unnoticed? And not turned over to authorities?

Maybe he has really good health insurance.

[AdmSmith]

Here is the link to the long Sunday Times article
Trail of the wounded terror chief by Hala Jaber and Tony Allen-Mills http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1632065_1,00.html

[propertius]

Afraid I would not believe it even if Iraqi government said it. Ministers contradict themselves and each other so often, everything they utter should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Recent examples of this: Late last year we had interior minister saying that Izzat al-Douri, probably the leader of the Iraqi Sunni insurgent networks, was captured near Tikrit in a joint Iraqi-U.S. operation that killed over 60 insurgents.. Later that was revised to saying he had escaped during the operation.

It later emerged from centcom that not only had he been captured, no-one had been killed or even wounded because no such operation had taken place.

The same thing happened last month during the supposed Shia hostage crisis in Medain/Salman Pak. One minister saying 150 hostaes had been taken, another saying only three. And we still don't know.

Last week Interior Minister Bayan Jabor said "We have received reliable information that Zarqawi was wounded over the weekend." Two hours later Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said "We have received no concrete information about whether Zarqawi has been wounded or not".

If the Americans say they got him, I would believe that.

[Coop]

"There was concern about spinal injuries," the commander said. "But his ability to move eliminated that fear."

Too bad. If he were paralyzed, Judge Greer would have finished him off.

[Coop]

Zarqawi was identified in 2003 by General Colin Powell, then the US secretary of state, as a supposed link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. In Powell’s controversial presentation to the United Nations of evidence of Saddam’s terrorist connections

he became a convenient scapegoat for US officials who were anxious to portray the rebellion as a foreign-led intervention in Iraqi affairs and not as a popular uprising.

Man, that article really ticks me off. Those two authors must be staffers for Jacque Chiraq or Kofi Annan.

[AmericanChef]

A couple days in a fine Arab hospital should finish him off.