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.
We could also feed his carcass to pigs, but that could contaminate our nation's livestock industry.
Better off just saying we did, and say we fed the contaminated pork to the jihadi at Gitmo and Supermax.
ROFLMAO
That's what happens when you try to crawl away from people that are attempting to help you.
Or that he has boot prints all over his arse.
Hey, what's that doc? Looks like a Johnsonville Brat!
What they should have done when they found him alive is drag him out into the street to the Iraqis, hand him off, and tell them that it's Zarqawi and that he needs medical attention. Then leave and turn a blind eye.
But I guess they needed pics of a positive ID. He'd have looked like Mussolini when they got finished with him.
What they should have done when they found him alive is drag him out into the street to the Iraqis, hand him off, and tell them that it's Zarqawi and that he needs medical attention. Then leave and turn a blind eye.
But I guess they needed pics of a positive ID. He'd have looked like Mussolini when they got finished with him.
No, no, no ... grind his verminous ass up and feed him to swine, then gather the poop and send it in a jar wrapped with raw bacon to the Mullahs of Iran.
I'm of the "Hey, it couldn't hurt..." school of thought on this issue. It needn't be excessive or obvious, just a pickled pig lip or ham hock tucked behind his liver.
Of course, he's already reached his final destination. You must admit, though, that if Zark *did* manage to land on a cloud in jihadi paradise, it's amusing to imagine him being yanked away from his honeyed cakes and virgins and cast into the furnace - all because someone flicked a piece of bacon into his carcass.
"What the...??! NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!"
Very descriptive. Glad I had had breakfast before reading it.
Now that is funny.
There are definite signs of overpressure (as opposed to shrapnel) damage visible on his face.
"they would be sensitive to Muslim traditions about dealing with the body."
What is this C**p! Most muslim religious leaders say that killing innocent muslims is against their religion and anyone who does is an APOSTATE!
That means that muslim rules do not APPLY!
These B**tards want everything both ways. It is time
to tell them to stuff it! We have more bombs!!!
No problem, but we're going to recycle it through a pen full of hogs first.
That's consistent with SOES (Sudden Extreme Overpressure Syndrome) ;>)
Presumably, this involves sawing off the head with a dull knife.
Something's out of Gere...
We ought to replace each of his organs with one from a pig and sew him right back up.
:-) (Why do I enjoy this evil-thinking so much?)
Why not. It's well known that debris created in an airplane crash can cause .45 inch, perfectly round, holes in skull bones.
That would be offensive to the Baathists. They use industrial plastic shredders for the job.
We have used this tactic in the past in the Phillipines in the early part of the 20th century. Pershing used this to subdue the Moro(Muslim) tribes.
Use their superstitions against them.
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