Iraq: Fallujah sheikh says Al-Zarqawi died on Friday [Dead again]

AKI ^ | 2005 Jun 2

[Wiz]

Baghdad, 2 June (AKI) - The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah's cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to protect the insurgency leader's tomb from a group of American soldiers patrolling the area.

During a telephone conversation from the city of Fallujah with the Saudi newspaper, Nasir said al-Zarqawi was taken there after being injured in the city of Ramadi around three weeks ago, and may have been treated by two doctors who had worked with his aides in Baghdad. He said the two doctors had stopped a serious haemorrhage in al-Zarqawi's intestines, but that after his condition worsened last week, the militant died on Friday.

Nasir adds that in his will the insurgent leader left the order that no funeral should be held for him and the right to announce his death should be left to the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.

The Al-Medina newspaper reports that it also called the headmaster of a school in Fallujah, who preferred to remain anonymous, but confirmed that many people in the city were aware of the fact that al-Zarqawi had recently been taken to the city.

[Sprite518]

Good Cure song. Have not heard it in a long time. I guess its politically incorrect.

[numberonepal]

Definitely a good song. I thought it fit.

[SevenMinusOne]

(My daughter still maintains that OBL is dead.)

That would be nice - But your daughter is definitely wrong - As frustrating as it is, that SOB is still very much alive - There is no doubt about it -

[SevenMinusOne]

"It is true that he is dead, and you should all stop searching for him now. I am telling the truth, you can believe me."

Exactly - The Zarqawi "seriously wounded" rumors were simply a rouse - It now appears more and more that he was never seriously hurt to begin with -

[Who dat?]

That's funny on several levels. First, there should be no Fallujah in existence to bury him in - he should have died there when they f-ed with the Blackwater contractors, along with all the inhabitants.

Second, there should be no Fallujah in existence to bury him in - he should have died there when they f-ed with the Blackwater contractors, along with all the inhabitants.

Etc, etc. IMO.

[Scarchin]

Weekend at Abu's

[sarasota]

They were just going for the prayers.