Posted on 06/08/2006 6:51:07 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Iraq confirmed on Thursday the death of the group's leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi and vowed to maintain its fight against the U.S. occupation and the Baghdad government, according to a Web statement.
"We herald the martyrdom of our mujahid (warrior) Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq... and we stress that this is an honour to our nation," said a statement on an Islamist Web site, signed by Zarqawi's deputy, Abu Abdulrahman al-Iraqi.
The group also renewed its support for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden had declared Zarqawi his deputy in Iraq.
"We tell our prince, Sheikh bin Laden, your soldiers in al Qaeda in Iraq will continue along the same path that you set out for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," said the statement.
The authenticity of the statement could not be immediately verified but it was posted an Islamist site often used by al Qaeda.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had earlier announced Zarqawi's death.
The last audio tape posted by Zarqawi was on June 1 in which he called on fellow Sunnis to reject any reconciliation with "infidel" Shi'ites and blasted top Shi'ite clerics.
Zarqawi was last seen in a rare video posted on an Islamist Web site in April, in which he denounced the new Shi'ite-led government and said it was set up to help Washington find a way out of its predicament in Iraq.
Zarqawi, who had sworn loyalty to Osama bin Laden, had come to symbolise the radical Islamic insurgency against U.S. occupation in which thousands had been killed.
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BUSH/RUMSFELD - 1
AL ZARQAWI - 0
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Hmmm< well - hallelujah - Oh yeah. (But would God be involved or Satan)
OK, then. If being snuffed out by bombs while hiding in a mud hut is considered heroic martyrdom, give us your location. We would be happy to send you and your minions off to Hell and join Abu.
ROFLOL!
Beautiful!
It would be like the lib/qaeda's to think that was literally proof!
Thanks - I still have tears in my eyes.
Hi. My name is Abu Boohoo Zarqawi and I'm dead now.
I suspect we are getting an ever greater stream of voluntary information from Shi'ites and Sunnis on the ground there. It will probably be progressively harder for AQ and the Jihad folks to keep significant personnel in theater and battlefield command from a distance loses effectiveness. It's even worse when the distant commanders get whacked with increasing frequency.
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Perhaps we can provide more honor to their nation...
At the iraqi briefing shown on Foxnews the Officier said that they did clean up the Face befor taking the presentation photo....
***Al Qaeda has a "DUH?" moment. We know he's dead. We killed him and have his body.***
QUICK! Stick a pork chop in his mouth! No 72 virgins/rasins for him!
Our Nation was an interesting phrase....guess that would be the Greater Caliphate they hope to build, ...originally in Iraq,,...maybe now in Mogadishu.....
Wonderful!
It is good there is enough left of him to confirm.
They interfered and maybe delayed this - and certainly endangered, this operation with their traitorous intelligence leaks. They could well have sunk this whole thing...thank God they weren't successful. If we had enough people in this country who could think rationally, the demRats and Rhinos should go down with this...
This whole incredible operation that, evidently, has been in the process for 10 months, has scooped up terrorists from the US, Canada, EU countries and Al-Zarqawi himself - (and evidently, all that was left of Al-Zarqawi HAD to be scooped up :o) ) anxious to hear about the intelligence gathered in the simultaneous raids on 17 other sites in Baghdad area - they evidently got lots of intelligence materials
(I wonder if these traitors on the hill have even absorbed the information that part of this whole sweep that included the Canada/US group, showed that, besides the targets in Canada - one of the targets was the Capitol Building...That's YOU, YOU traitors. Get the message? Had you been successful in spoiling this operation, you may have been the ones with a bomb on your stinking heads.
Maybe this is why Bush has been so passive about things lately. Perhaps he was waiting for events he knew were in progress. I hope so.
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Democrats Irked Over Zarqawi Death
http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/6/8/90013.shtml
The Enemy is now within...
...and always has been.
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A photo of al-Zarqawi on display at a U.S. military briefing, June 8, 2006. (APTN/US Military)
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