Posted on 06/08/2006 4:31:55 PM PDT by dennisw
DUBAI - Taunting President Bush during the videotaped killing of a sobbing, blindfolded U.S. hostage, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi boasted that the al-Qaida fighters he commanded “love death just like you love life.”
“Killing for the sake of God is their best wish,” the insurgent leader said, drawing a knife to hack off the head of his kneeling victim. “Getting to your soldiers and allies are their happiest moments, and cutting the heads of the criminal infidels is implementing the orders of our Lord.”
By the time he was killed Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike, al-Zarqawi was more powerful as a myth than as a man.
The killings he masterminded were carefully calibrated to have the maximum psychological effect and feed his legend.
His repertoire of violence was a guerrilla version of the “shock and awe” tactics of his American foes. Suicide bombings were planned with great precision but rarely aimed at targets of military value — their symbolic effect was more important.
The killing of hostages was also choreographed for maximum shock value and followed a ritual that became grimly familiar.
Mirror images Victims were dressed in orange clothes to mirror the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, and were filmed weeping and pleading for their lives, sometimes caged. Their decapitation — often at the hands of al-Zarqawi himself — was swiftly distributed over the Internet.
With his horror videos — including the beheading of American hostage Nicholas Berg — the Jordanian-born militant seemed to revel in taunting those seeking to catch or eradicate him. His bloodshed made the U.S.-led war on terrorism look impotent to some extent, an impression that the airstrike that killed him helped to dispel.
“It indicates that the intelligence services and police are now more capable of infiltrating the terror groups,”
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Now that the military, under the command of George Bush, killed him, it turns out that he wasn't even hardly dangerous at all.
Unsigned for a good reason, being utterly beneath contempt.
U.S. Propaganda to blame?
Sure, I can believe that. The U.S. MSM frequently cited Zarqawi as a near mythical figure that couldn't be defeated.
The U.S. military and the Bush administration has kept on saying that they were going to get him eventually.
So if Zarqawi was promoted as some kind of mythical hero for the terrorists, it wasn't the Bush administration, or the Republicans, or the conservatives... It was the journalists who are all deeply saddened at the demise of their favorite boogie man.
Perhaps even more, I think they'll have to revisit his childhood, determine why he was like he was, and then have him burried at Arlington due to the fact that he had a hard life that was the reason for why he behaved the way he did. /s
Sometimes I wonder however about the libs.
You nailed it.
And when we nail Bin Ladin they'll claim he was harmless old dotter who liked to wear a white ice cream man's hat
Yeah--isn't it amazing how his power has just evaporated?
US propaganda? MessNBC would know propaganda. They're masters of it. This is just another pathetic attempt by the wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic party, MessNBC, to try to make the killing of Zarqawi into nothing worth getting excited about as well as trying to further the myth that most of the worst violence in Iraq is carried out by Iraqis "resisting the US occupation," and not foreign AL Qaeda trash like Zarqawi. They want so much for this to be a fight of Iraqis against America, rather than what it is America AND Iraqis against foreign terrorist invaders and a few Saddam dead-enders determined to bring back the bad old days. Who wrote this piece? Chrissy Boy and Keith Untermann?
Turns out it was a lie (myth) that Z was missing a leg from combat
I suggest this line as the understatement of the year.....
How right you are. My guess is Olberman.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
These media goons are so twisted they don't even know how low they are. Fortuntely, we do.
The man was a maniac and a murderer. Even in the last few days. See:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=baqubah%20heads&sa=N&tab=wn
You got that. I also heard the media say Zarqawi (after we nailed him) was just a "simpleton" and a fool.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
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