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.
Ping
"Any terrorist remains that our dogs won't eat are analyzed on suspicion of being from Zarqawi."
If they did get him, the Democrats won't have anyone to surrender to anymore.
check the phone records to the tv station
Last I heard, he blew himself up before the Americans could get to him so it will take a while to find out if he was actually the guy that exploded.
He's dead Jim.
Why not?
Well, the White House said it was "highly unlikely" and the White House is always right, never lies, etc, y'all Harriet Miers fans! Case closed.
If he is dead, he should be buried in a hog lagoon in Arkansas........
It's intruiging that haven't verified that it's not him yet.
"Jim, he's dead. You thrilled him!"
He can always call whoever runs his terrorist website and ask him to deny rumors of his death, so far it did not happen but we shall wait and see.
We all know from CSI that it only takes an hour to process a crime scene, recover DNA evidence, suspect the cops of some wrongdoing, have some domestic problems, and solve the crime.
The longer we wait to hear his next audio tape, the more likely this dude is toast.
I agree ...
To Tell the Truth
Egaaaaad....that's a lunch loser.
Sorry, it was working opposite for me today. Imagine the sample, think of a loose-meat sandwich, get hungry and go for lunch. Cheers!
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