"VERY S C I E N T I F I C AMERICANS...!"
Posted on 11/22/2005 8:27:37 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
The United States is using "technical means" to verify if Al-Qaeda frontman in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in battle, US coordinator for Iraq James Jeffrey said.
"We are using technical means to try to verify that," Jeffrey told reporters in Jordan during a videoconference from Washington.
"We are looking into the incident in Mosul but we have no indication at this time that any of the dead were Mr Zarqawi," said Jeffrey, who served as deputy chief of mission in Baghdad from June 2004 to March 2005.
"I don't have any more information for you on that," Jeffrey added.
Media reports have said Jordanian-born Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda frontman, might have been among a group of insurgents killed in battle in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told Jordan's state-run news agency Monday that the Baghdad authorities were carrying out DNA tests on the bodies of insurgents killed in the battle to check if Zarqawi was among them.
US military commanders have said they were continuing the hunt for Zarqawi, who has a 25-million-dollar US bounty on his head.
"We have no indication that Zarqawi was killed and we will continue operations to search for him," a US military spokesman told AFP in Baghdad on Monday.
I thought it was settled that he wasn't killed...
Technical means?! Just call in Dr. 'Bones' McCoy.
The only "technical" means I will believe is a photo of him with a bullet hole in between his sorry eyes. That'd do it for me.
"Oh. Wouldn't it be lovely?"
If I were on the hook for $25M, I'd want to be real sure he's dead before paying.
Humming to self:
"Go to pieces and I want to cry/ Go to pieces and I almost die . . . "
"I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you . . ."
"VERY S C I E N T I F I C AMERICANS...!"
Ahhh wouldnt it be a special Thanksgiving if Zarqawi was presented to us all nice and flambe'd?
Jimmy Hoffa syndrome. Will we now see zarquari sightings at gas stations in Kalamazoo MI like Elvis?
Yep. I wonder, if his family turned him in, and he committed suicide, will the 'insurance policy' still pay off?
Zarqawi alive or dead, "it is a puzzlement."
Don't think the pentagon thinks he was killed....sounds like just in case they're continuing to ck further.
He was dead. But he got better.
I could swear I heard Fox News report this AM that one body was removed from the rubble. It was over my shoulder on one of the hald-hour news reports.
Not at all. The story hasn't changed.
I think 'technical means' means that there are human remains that are basically a smear on the concrete or a carbonized stain and they need to see if that was Zar-however you spell it.
He could be merely dead. But is he sincerely dead?
Technical means?
HAHAHHAHAHAa...I guess that means a putty knife, cotton swabs, and a spectrograph to do DNA comparisons...cuz there aint much left of those jihadis.
Count the legs. If it equals 15, we got him.
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