Posted on 06/10/2006 5:07:19 AM PDT by tlb
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene of the U.S. airstrike targeting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al-Qaida leader.
The witness, who lives near the house where al-Zarqawi spent his last days, said he saw the man lying on the ground near an irrigation canal. He was badly wounded but still alive, the man told Associated Press Television News.
U.S. troops arriving on the scene wrapped the man's head in an Arab robe and began beating him, said the local man, who refused to give his name or show his face to the camera. His account could not be independently verified.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
>I noticed the requisite teddy bear in the rubble. Similar to the teddy bear found in the rubble in Afghanistan a while back<
Remember, Zarkman's 18 month old toddler was with him at the time.
Of course, a horse's @$$ like Zarkman would not keep his wife and child safe and separate from himself. Gotta have the little woman around, if you need her for something.
At least Sadaam sent his wife(s?) to Europe, for safety.
I was waiting for a story like this to come out. The minute it was said that he was alive, some idiot was going to search high and low until they found someone to say this. Hey, ya know what? The minute I heard he was alive I was hoping they tuned him up a bit, or at the very least spit on him.
Or that Jimmy Dean was seen stuffing pork sausages down Zarqawi's mouth and rubbing his body with lard. Those are the kind of lies I wish they would tell: the kind that might have the effect of causing terrorists to think twice about the karma of Jihad.
You knew this was coming, I say who gives a sheite.
If any military personnel was putting an ass whopping on the POS it probably were these guys.
This article is complete bullshit - period.
Let's hope so!
Case closed.
:-P
Well, his house did get bombed. He was likely still smoldering. They were probably trying to put him out. I would have let him burn. I doubt it's true, but it's funny either way.
Kerry will call for hearings.
it's just beyond funny at this point. i used to shake my head. but the news media is so off the hook i just don't even blink at it anymore.
An article I read yesterday had another witness who said when the American troops realized who the Iraqi troops had pulled out of the rubble, they administered medical care trying to save him. Who's telling the truth? It seems to me, the MSM is trying anyway possible to make this look like a bad thing.
It's anorexic!
Arafat sent his wife to Paris where she could watch over the money he was stealing.
Here's the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198850,00.html
Julian Philips on Fox&Friends was whining that we would have gotten allot of intel had we taken Zark alive.
Military consultant (ret) said the US would have gotten zero intel from Zark. However, his computer hard drives and other physical evidence at the safehouse was/will be a treasure trove of data. In fact, some 50 additional raids have already taken place as a direct result of intel gained from the safehouse.
Philips, even after the interview ended, would not be deterred and remarked that he still thought we could have gotten intel out of an 'alive' Zark.
[Libs are so dense.]
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