Oh yes...your bright tommorrows are definitely appearing on the horizon...
Here they come now!
Posted on 09/22/2004 3:31:37 AM PDT by Nepalis
By JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer
AMMAN, Jordan - The spiritual leader of the most active insurgency group in Iraq (news - web sites), Tawhid and Jihad, has been killed in a U.S. airstrike and his Jordanian family is preparing a wake, a Jordanian newspaper and Islamic clerics said Wednesday.
Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami, 35, was killed when a missile hit the car he was traveling in on Friday in the west Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib, said the clerics, who have close ties to the family. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
Al-Shami was an aide to Tawhid and Jihad's leader, the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The al-Qaida-linked group is blamed for some of the biggest attacks in Iraq, such as the bombing of the U.N. headquarters last year, and the beheadings of foreign hostages. Al-Zarqawi is believed to have personally decapitated the American hostage Eugene Armstrong on Monday.
Al-Shami, a Jordanian of Palestinian extraction who was also known as Omar Yousef Jumah, was believed to be the voice on several audio tapes that Tawhid and Jihad released via the Internet. In one such tape in August, a speaker identified as al-Shami said the militants planned to kill Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, soldiers and police officers.
"We will not allow you to destroy our hopes in this blessed holy war, and we will not let you steal our bright tomorrow, which is now appearing on the horizon," the speaker said on the tape.
The an independent Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad quoted al-Shami's family on Wednesday as confirming the death. It said the family was preparing a wake in the east Amman suburb where al-Shami lived before he went to Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion last year.
The pan-Arab satellite television Al-Jazeera reported al-Shami's death earlier in the week, quoting unidentified relatives.
Yeah!
" ...killed in a U.S. airstrike and his Jordanian family is preparing a wake, a Jordanian newspaper and Islamic clerics said Wednesday."
It doesn't take an army rocket scientist to figure out when and where the next airstrike should be. GET IT DONE BOYS!!
Bye bye you prick.
That's exactly how this war needs to be fought--"on OUR terms and on their TURF".
I give the RNC, the Bush campaign and anyone else the right to use that phrase.
I agree. Since he was taken out with a missile strike, just like Nek Mohammed, I'd say our intel guys need to stand up and take a bow. Just a matter of time and a little forbearance and we'll have Zarqawi, too. The essence of leadership is communications and those communications appear to be one of their weakest links.
--Boot Hill
BUMP to that!
Everyone there is an effin shiek!! Enough of that title and safety net. Kill 'em all and let OUR GOD sort it out!!
Oh yeah. Put a GPS tracer on every single car in the parking lot...
And that is why the Coalition fights against them!
A Civilized People don't intentionally target innocents. That tactic is for subhumans and savages.
We have no problems with killing the "bad guys". We do it quite well and with frequency. We prefer to be selective and precise. Kinda like snipers,a more refined "terror".
Having said that I do understand your anger and frustration. But we have to do this right and that takes time and patience. What the terrorist hope is we run out of patience and they win by default(vietnam).
Hear, hear! I want to add, too, that indiscriminate killing and unpleasantness towards the population only increases the enemy's pool of recruits.
When I viewed this, I thought of BlueLancer's famous post about the Dreaded 'Mericans.
BlueLancer: Link on Post #87.
What a wonderful story, we need many more!:)
Hope Zarqawi is next. Not sure why we can't get the SOB anyway.
Thanks for the ping, Ruth.
Bye bye Sheiky!
This is the best news we have heard in a few days.
We know where these rabid a$$hole's families live??! Why aren't their heads on spikes and limbs spread from Amman to Baghdad? Go get Zaquawi's damn family and behead them....SLOWLY....one by one.
No...never happen. We're to 'civilized' and that is our biggest weakness.
Why waste a perfectly good parachute, and deny them the fun of sorting out which is which?
Oh yes...your bright tommorrows are definitely appearing on the horizon...
Here they come now!
Is there enough of his head left to mount it on a pole?
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