Hats off to our troops who bombed him into HELL.
Posted on 06/12/2006 4:45:58 PM PDT by SandRat
BAGHDAD, June 12, 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi died of blast injuries sustained by the coalition bombing of his safe house June 7, coalition officials said today. The officials also said that DNA testing proves that the body is that of the terrorist leader. "We have clear evidence he died of blast injuries," said Army Dr. (Col.) Steve Jones, the command surgeon in Iraq. "There is no evidence to suggest that he was beaten and I have no reason to suspect that happened."
Jones and coalition military spokesman Army Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell briefed reporters on the results of the autopsies here today.
The results of autopsies on Zarqawi and Sheik Abd al-Rahman - Zarqawi's spiritual adviser - prove that both men died of massive blast injuries. Zarqawi survived for a time, but blast injuries to his lungs stopped oxygen from being absorbed into the blood.
"The cause of death was closed-space primary blast injury of the lung," Jones said. "Blast waves from the two bombs caused tearing, bruising of the lungs and bleeding."
The injuries cannot be seen without opening the body. "All the injuries found were consistent with those found on blast victims," Jones said.
Coalition experts conducted the autopsies to put an end to "speculation, misinformation and propaganda," Caldwell said.
The Iraqi people deserve the facts and the fact "that he was treated better in death than he treated his victims in life," Caldwell said.
Senior DoD pathologists conducted the autopsies. "Two medical examiners participated in each autopsy to ensure it was thorough and there were no questions about the findings," Jones said.
All coalition officials said that the bodies of Zarqawi and Rahman were treated with the utmost respect. "We treated them with the same high degree of dignity and respect that we treat our own casualties," Jones said.
Caldwell said coalition and Iraqi forces conducted 11 raids, mostly in the Baghdad region, on targets from information gleaned from the ruins of the house Zarqawi was killed in.
Some details on how the Z-man died.
Ah, good, I was HOPING they'd get the coverup underway soon.../sarc.
I hear Dr. Howard Dean was there to help revive him.
As if this is going to quiet the liberal-conspiracy-whacked out nut jobs.
I must remember to send a "Good Riddance" card to his next of kin.
So in his last hour of life the American military made his life a blast, what's the problem?
I was hoping for a bayonet, dipped in bacon grease, between the eyes as final cause of death.
And I tought they died from bad sand food.
Hats off to our troops who bombed him into HELL.
no, a dull machete, held high in his eyesight, aiming to come down on his neck. oooh, did i say that?
Dipped in bacon grease.
I was hoping that his damned head was blown off. His pain was not nearly as severe, before he died, as he deserved!
There will be others to take his place and may God bless our efforts to take them out too.
BTTT
Oh he didn't like how he went and probably had a vision of Mohammad in a lake of fire waiting for him.
God Bless our Troops indeed.
I have a great plan to stop the attacks by the left on our military.
Pass a law that during war time in active combat, troops votes count as 14,000 votes each.
I think that would shut them up quick.
I'm with you....but if the reported "fifty eight minutes" to do it thingie is true, that's just a bonus.
It hurt him, he felt pain, and he was probably cognizant of who and what did it to him.
Still, I'd find it mildly interesting if he actually died of food poisoning and the bombs had nothing to do with it.
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