Posted on 06/21/2005 2:56:51 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The Iraq War is replacing the attacks of September 11, 2001, as fodder for conspiracy theories emanating from the Middle East - in particular, questions surrounding Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi. Does he exist? Where is he hiding? Is he actually an American or Jordanian agent? Is he dead?
Print and television reports in the Arab and Iranian press regularly question Mr. al-Zarqawi's existence. A member of the former Iraqi Governing Council, Fadhl al-Rube'i, was interviewed on the Lebanese channel New TV, on May 16, 2004. He called Mr. al-Zarqawi mythical and a creation of the Pentagon's "disinformation" center.
The spokesman for radical Iraqi Shi'ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, Sheikh Abd al-Hadi al-Daraji, likewise stated in an April 4 interview with the Israeli-Arab weekly Kul Al-Arab that Mr. al-Zarqawi was an "ambiguous, imaginary, and made-up figure," created to justify American operations in Iraq. According to a report in the Baghdad newspaper Al-Mu'tamar, on October 28, 2004, fliers distributed by Sunni clerics in Fallujah maintained, "there is no Zarqawi in existence and that such person was an American creation."
An international relations expert at Egypt's Al-Ahram Institute, Said al-Lawindi, appeared on Egyptian channel 1, on November 16, 2004, and alleged that Mr. al-Zarqawi was a fabrication: "Where is this al-Zarqawi? I have read even in the French press, in Le Monde, that anyone can show a photograph of someone who died decades ago and claim that it is al-Zarqawi. This is an attempt by the U.S. to emphasize ... you can't go on forever talking about bin Laden, who has also become a myth."
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Z man is in deep doo doo....now the arabs don't trust him.:-)
Muqtada al-Sadr is another person who should be in jail next to Saddam. We should have grabbed him months ago and paid the price in the fearsom and dreaded "arab street" (/sarcasm) and we would be done with him now.
Yup, all you have to do is be synical enough to blow up several hundred women and children to say nothing of 4 or 5 hundred of you own troops and be confident enough that you can get away with it forever, never be found out, and you can get people to believe anything...
Pass the Renolds Wrap please... ;-)
LOL, the myth is always larger than the man.....We are talking about a wooden leg, master of disguise, unlimited funded, master terrorist that can be belly shot and then run and jump from a moving vehicle and evade 19 year old U.S. Marines, on foot. He's dead Jim......but their will always be an al-Zarqawi......
The media in Egypt said AL Z dosen't exist and bin Ladin is a myth. Our boys got both those bastards so far down a golpher hole even the extremeist don't believe in em anymore. Must be doing something right.
Remember, the "Arab street" at the same time believed that Muslims could not possibly been responsible for 9/11, that it must have been a work of the Jews, but then paraded bin Laden's picture around superimposed on images of the WTC burning. So, what is it? Did he do it or not?
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