Posted on 11/18/2005 7:03:36 PM PST by jmc1969
Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi made clear he was not about to stop the bloodshed, warning he will attack more tourist sites in Jordan and threatening to behead King Abdullah II. He said he was targeting Jordan because it is serving as a "protector" for Israel, helps the U.S. military in Iraq and has become a "swamp of obscenity," with alcohol and prostitution in its tourist sites.
"Your star is fading. You will not escape your fate, you descendant of traitors. We will be able to reach your head and chop it off," al-Zarqawi said, referring to the king.
Al-Zarqawi, who has a $25 million bounty on his head from the U.S., told Jordanians to stay away from bases used by U.S. forces, hotels and tourist sites in Amman, the Dead Sea and the southern resort of Aqaba and embassies of governments participating in the war in Iraq, saying they would be targeted.
"People of Islam in Jordan, we want to assure you that we are extremely careful over your lives ... you are more beloved to us than ourselves," he said.
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This guy is crazy. He sounds like a Democratic congressman.
"People of Islam in Jordan, we want to assure you that we are extremely careful over your lives ... you are more beloved to us than ourselves," he said.
"Er...sorry about that wedding party though."
How to win friends and influence people? .....not.
If Zarcoward were any kind of a man he would go to Jordan and do the job himself.
Not quite--Zarqawi can't raise your taxes. ;)
Zarqawi spins the news! LOL!
Are you sure this wacko is not a Kennedy?
"you descendant of traitors."
As I understand it, Abdullah is widely seen as the last of the legitimate Hashemite rulers.
Let's be honest here, by making this statement Zarqawi has just signed his own death warrant.
The U.S. military may want to capture Zarqawi alive, but Jordan's forces do not.
You're right, Vlad. Zarqawi is actually less harmful to us than Kucinich or Pelosi. And he is certainly more moderate in his speech.
He can't be a Kennedy, he isn't drunk, and he is politically more moderate.
I like that - "Zarcoward"!
So I guess all of those dead bodies were a "work-related accident"?
Shuddup and sing, Al! The Dixie Chicks could use an explosive hit -- they've been bombing lately!
...except for the ones we've been blowing to a bloody pulp recently...but hey, what the heck, it's all in good fun. Allah akhbar and all that...
and true custodians of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and Medina until the Wahhabi fanatics swept him away from power.
Well he is half the man he used to be. With his behavior I'm starting to wonder just how high above the knee they took that leg off.
Perhaps Jordan has a cut and runner like murtha in their government saying Jordan should leave Zarquawi alone..it would only embolden the terrorists..
Does Jordan still allow beheading as an execution method and do they have the death penalty for traitors? Zarc is definitely a traitor to the Jordanian state.
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