Posted on 06/10/2006 7:08:02 AM PDT by Pokey78
Two US doctors have begun an autopsy on the body of top militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed in a US-led operation in Iraq this week.
Questions have arisen over how Zarqawi died since the Americans revealed he had still been alive following the bombing of a safe house by US planes.
It is unclear if Zarqawi's remains will be released to his family in Jordan.
Iraq has seen more violence with five butchers shot dead in a shop in Mosul and three deaths in a Baghdad bombing.
Sensitive operation
"The autopsy is going on right now as we speak," Maj Gen William Caldwell, a senior spokesman for the US-led coalition, said in Baghdad.
"We are doing the autopsy to see how he actually died. It will be completed by this evening and will be made public maybe as early as Monday."
Two military experts were flown in to perform the procedure he said, adding that they would be sensitive to Muslim traditions about dealing with the body.
"They are very familiar with this kind of thing," he said.
"One of them has the information and knows the customs and traditions of the religion."
Victims' relatives offended
A row has broken out in Jordan after a number of Islamist politicians offered condolences to Zarqawi's family
The move was condemned by relatives of the 60 people killed in the Jordanian capital, Amman, last year in suicide bombings carried out by Zarqawi's group.
His family, some of whom view him as a martyr, have asked for the return of his body to Jordan for burial but it is not clear if the Jordanian government or the US military will permit this.
Zarqawi was still alive when Iraqi police got to the scene of the air strikes but he died shortly afterwards from his wounds, Gen Caldwell said earlier.
US planes dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on his safe house near the city of Baquba on Wednesday.
After US troops arrived, Zarqawi tried to move off the stretcher where he had been placed, Gen Caldwell said.
"Everybody re-secured him back onto the stretcher, but he died almost immediately thereafter from the wounds he had received from this air strike," he added.
US military officials had earlier said Zarqawi did not survive the strike, which they said came after tip-offs from his organisation.
Why do I still have to put "/SARCASM" on posts? See #21 & #22.
That's a thought. Then you could toss the whole thing out into the street and see how many of the demonic and superstitious followers of "allah" would be willing to try to remove those filthy pork parts from around their fallen "martyr". I guess you could also see how many protested that action and, thus, identify themselves as our enemies.
I knew what you meant. I was being ironic too.
Abuse reports are surfacing already.Dont ya just love the LMSM?
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-al-zarqawi,0,3015170.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlinesq
Great!
Will that include dismemberment, burning and hanging from a nearby bridge?
Will that include dragging the naked body through the street?
Will that include hurling the body off a building to land at the feet of the family members?
Will that include feeding the bastard into a tree shredder?
ALL the above and worse - have been practiced by the "sensitive" Muslim lunatics.
To pretend there is any Muslim "sensitivity" that we should be "sensitive" to, regarding this particular sonuvabitch - is insane.
Also - this particular bastard's body should NOT be returned to his family.... He should be buried in the desert in a full and decommissioned Marine latrine.
Semper Fi
The autopsy is to make sure the Goa'uld inside him is actually dead.
Yep, just like the .45 inch diameter hole in Ron Browns head made the medical journals.
Good idea Eric. Or grind him up with the pork and make sausage — "Zarqawi Pork Wieners." Ummmm — a breakfast to barf on for all the guys at Guantanamo, Abu Ghrab, etc.
Are they going to truss it up with claymore's wired to a cell phone?
As far as his actual corpse, buried in an unmarked grave in an undisclosed location should eliminate any shrines or pilgrimages for this vermin.
You know I did a lot of weaponeering and its amazing how close you can be to a 500 pounder (240 lb. of TNT equivilent and live) if you are somehow sheilded. Of course living for a little while isn't the same as surviving.
2000 pounders would have been nice, but then we wouldn't have any body confirmation.
Just burn it and roast a ham over it.
Entry: "Gland of Evil found in mid-thoracic region completely enveloping atrophied heart. Appearance: spiky, sinuous, and well-nourished. Color: tarry black. Weight: 6.66 kilograms."
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