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The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
The Atlantic Monthly ^
| July/August 2006
| Mary Anne Weaver
Posted on 06/09/2006 8:28:59 PM PDT by tbird5
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To: cpdiii
Will Michael Moore make a movie about him?
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posted on
06/09/2006 9:35:37 PM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(The MSM is "the propaganda arm of our enemies." - Jack Kelly)
To: RedRover
I suspect his eternity will feel like an eternity.
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posted on
06/09/2006 9:52:37 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
(It's a fight to the death with Democrats.)
To: cpdiii
His acts of escalating violence as a youth graduating to vicious murder later and his failure to stand out, combined with his seeking out of the most dangerous situations ("possessing no fear") are the hallmarks of a psychopath.
They don't experience fear or any highs or lows the way we do and the only way he could even come close was to murder people in a variety of savage ways.
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posted on
06/09/2006 10:00:09 PM PDT
by
Skywalk
(Transdimensional Jihad!)
To: dodger
Wasn't Zarqawi once in prison in Jordan for raping someone? Maybe he was a serial rapist/killer from way back and then he found in Jihad a "respectable" way to satisfy his sadistic urges.
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posted on
06/09/2006 10:10:16 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: Former Fetus
To bad we can't hear the military directing this. That'd be lovely.
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posted on
06/09/2006 10:21:28 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
To: tbird5
"I remember one guy who came and said he was too old to fight, but he gave the recruiters $200,000 in cash. Give it to the mujahideen, was all he said.
We need to design a type of currency that can be programed to blow up when held by non Americans. It sickens me that 'they'
have access to and use 'our' money...
To: Zeppo
The author's propaganda objectives are certainly clear enough... Yep...
All were new recruits, largely from Jordan, and they had come to fight in a fratricidal civil war in neighboring Afghanistanan outgrowth of the CIA-financed jihad of the 1980s against the Soviet occupation there.
As if our permission was required for Afghans to fight back, as if our permission was required for every wannabe non-Afghan freelancers or jihadists backed by Islamic countries to join in, as if we somehow were able to handpick all the combatants. The fighting against the Soviets was going to go on with or without us.
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posted on
06/09/2006 10:37:42 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
To: tbird5
"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, barely forty and barely literate.."
Barely literate? Zarqawi was a doctor; I didn't read the entire article. After that sentence, I figured this was typical Lefty dissembling.
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posted on
06/09/2006 10:55:49 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: Rembrandt
Barely literate? Zarqawi was a doctor; I didn't read the entire article. After that sentence, I figured this was typical Lefty dissembling.
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Zarkawi was a Jordanian street-thug loser turned terrorist.
You're thinking of Zawahiri, who is an Egyptian doctor turned terrorist. Zawahiri is presently hanging out in the border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Hopefully he will delivered a very special U.S. Armed Forces candygram in the very near future.
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posted on
06/09/2006 11:07:24 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: Rembrandt; Fedora
It seems as if the entire purpose of the article is to distance al Qaeda and Iraq from Zarqawi.
The other theme is "US sources untrustworthy, while all terrorist relatives and anonymous Jordanian sources's stories are Gospel."
Have to wonder if the author's sources are imaginary friends or if they might actually be real and on the Oil-for-Food bribery list.
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posted on
06/09/2006 11:11:04 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
To: Cindy
Article cotains some information you might be interested in bump
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posted on
06/09/2006 11:20:58 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
To: edpc
I was born the same month four years earlier. When you spend half your life plotting evil, sooner or later you end up on a slab. Its a story as old as man himself on the earth.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
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posted on
06/09/2006 11:25:21 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: tbird5
Re:
an outgrowth of the CIA-financed jihad of the 1980s against the Soviet occupation there. This is wrong.
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posted on
06/09/2006 11:26:23 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: tbird5
Northrop Grumman Corp. LITENING Targeting & Recon Pod
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Praise be unto Allah for F-16s and their drivers, and unto Northrop Grumman, and 500lb bombs.
Allah akbar!
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posted on
06/09/2006 11:39:11 PM PDT
by
Daaave
(The flesh eating jinn of Komari.)
To: tbird5
This article reads like an homage to Charles Manson.
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posted on
06/10/2006 12:23:18 AM PDT
by
D-fendr
To: tbird5
This article reads like an homage to Charles Manson.
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posted on
06/10/2006 12:23:22 AM PDT
by
D-fendr
To: tbird5
The author lifted the title from an old Time magazine cover story..and just changed the words from Robert "Yummy" Sandifer to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
To: tbird5
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posted on
06/10/2006 12:42:49 AM PDT
by
D-fendr
To: D-fendr
Folks who enjoyed this article also enjoyed: Al Capone-The Syphillitic Years
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posted on
06/10/2006 3:33:11 AM PDT
by
at bay
("We actually did an evil....." Eric Scmidt, CEO Google)
To: Intolerant in NJ
"For me, and I think a lot of others, the best thing about his life is that he didn't die immediately after the bombs hit"He also was lying trapped in the rubble from the first bomb, probably hearing the second one coming.
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