[edpc]

Zarq was born in October of 1966. If life begins at 40, he'll never know it. Good riddance.

[Falconspeed]

Amman, where he is at work on a doctorate in classical Arabic literature...

Amman, friend of Z. : talk about an empty and useless degree from college

[Blue Jays]

AMF!

[Falconspeed]

RE: in a car bombing outside Shia Islam’s holy shrine in Najaf.

The suicide bomber in that attack was Yassin Jarad, from Zarqa. He was al-Zarqawi’s father-in-law.

Z. used his wifes father to cause the "killing of over a hundred people". That's just downright evil.

[Nachoman]

His life wasn't nearly short enough.

[dodger]

My cousin, a psychologist, believes he took sexual gratification in sadistic beheadings and all that. In any event, what a perverted 'religion' conjures up -- much less adulates -- such reptilian behavior?

[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, but had a few moments of consciousness to realize that he was in the hands of the US military and to experience the terror that must have brought.....

[TC Rider]

I was wondering, does anyone know exactly what munition they dropped on him?

I was thinking that maybe they used the concrete bombs, pretty accurate but doesn't wake the neighbors.

[Zeppo]

The author's propaganda objectives are certainly clear enough...

[LeoWindhorse]

"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...

[Rembrandt]

"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.

[ChadGore]

Re: —an outgrowth of the CIA-financed jihad of the 1980s against the Soviet occupation there.

This is wrong.

[Daaave]

Northrop Grumman Corp. LITENING Targeting & Recon Pod

defenseindustrydaily.com/

Praise be unto Allah for F-16s and their drivers, and unto Northrop Grumman, and 500lb bombs.

Allah akbar!

[D-fendr]

This article reads like an homage to Charles Manson.

[D-fendr]

This article reads like an homage to Charles Manson.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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.

[D-fendr]

For the record, an expert contradicts some of this author's views about Zark at the Weekly Stadard: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/307cfkcp.asp?pg=1