It's a new version of "where's waldo", "where's the jihadist spleen"
Posted on 06/07/2006 11:41:09 PM PDT by StJacques
Edited on 06/08/2006 1:00:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It's on ABC Late Night News Right Now
ABC News Update:
BAGHDAD, Iraq Jun 8, 2006 (AP)— Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, has been killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister said Thursday.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed Wednesday evening along with seven aides.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2052072
That's Ramen noodles. Abd-Al-Rahman. ("rockmon") He was the "spiritual adviser."
Open the bar...:-)
There's a big brew up between warlords and islamist militia in Mog right now, and there's been no effective government since Siad Barre was overthrown (and he was only propped up by playing both sides in the coldwar). Al Queda thrives best in lawless places. Iraq may be becoming a bit too organized for their liking.
Awwwwww.
Just heard the news.
Too bad he didn't get some poetic justic -- being beheaded with a dull knife. But a 500-pounder probably pounded him good enough.
FoxNews is saying his spiritual advisor was the one who informed on him and gave his location to the military.
Thanks for reporting the positive side that will be suffocated by many journalists.
It's a new version of "where's waldo", "where's the jihadist spleen"
al Qaida has a strong base in Somalia and that has been considered their fallback position.
They ran the UN and President Clinton out of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down) in the early 90's.
My recollection is that the genocide there has made it a lawless place and the outlaws and warlords fight each other. al Qaida could buy itself a base there, and many of the survivors of all the famine and war are one's who think bin Laden, et al, are heros.
Anyone with better knowledge, please set in.
I predict there will be more than a few telephone numbers on the lists that we find in Zarqawi's possession, and we correctly use those numbers to find who in the U.S. is calling him and expressing sympathy. This is likely to boil over as a case of "domestic spying," and the Dems will try to wring our hands as we utilize this information on possible recruits...
This is a frame from TV of the scene Thursday, June 8 2006, following a US air raid in which Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, was killed, Iraq's prime minister said Thursday. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed about Wednesday evening along with seven aides north of Baghdad. The Jordanian-born militant, who is believed to have personally beheaded at least two American hostages, became Iraq's most wanted militant, as notorious as Osama bin Laden, to whom he swore allegiance in 2004. The United States put a US$25 million (about euro20 million) bounty on al-Zarqawi, the same as bin Laden. (AP Photo / APTN)
Somalia's current government *IS* the Islamic militias, since they took the capital and have instituted sharia law.
LOL!!!!
Isn't it amazing how the liberals are making this event a negative???
My hope is bayonets.
Now this is the photos that should grace every front page and magazine cover, but sadly it won't.
We discussed it on this thread around 1200 (I think).
Then martyred himself, to boot.
We sure un-pimped his ride.
Thanks for the pics, a definite "Gotta See This!"
My paraphrase, but yes.
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