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US using 'technical means' to see if Zarqawi killed: official
AFP ^ | November 22, 2005

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; iraq; jordan; military; terrorist; wariniraq; zarqawi
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To: West Coast Conservative

My guess is the gov't is waiting for Bush to come back to the States so he can personally announce it in a live press conference here at home. There is NO WAY that the answer isn't known by now.


61 posted on 11/22/2005 11:28:48 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: martin_fierro
ooh my....

..I forgot how great 'bald' can look.

62 posted on 11/22/2005 11:31:38 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: slapshot
Will we now see zarquari sightings at gas stations in Kalamazoo MI like Elvis?

You saw him too? Wow!

63 posted on 11/22/2005 11:34:06 AM PST by FLCowboy, (Hillary is changing her colors. She's a chameleon. No, she's a liberal.)
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To: Red Badger

Radical muslims are just like drug dealers and suck asses,,,you get rid of one you got two more wanting to take their place.


64 posted on 11/22/2005 11:40:50 AM PST by Drillerman
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To: Red Badger

Radical muslims are just like drug dealers,,you get rid of one two more are ready to take their place.Im not for helping the Muslims anywhere.The biggest false religion in the history of mankind.


65 posted on 11/22/2005 11:44:06 AM PST by Drillerman
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To: Red Badger

Radical muslims are just like drug dealers,,you get rid of one two more are ready to take their place.Im not for helping the Muslims anywhere.The biggest false religion in the history of mankind.


66 posted on 11/22/2005 11:45:03 AM PST by Drillerman
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To: Drillerman

Islam, IMHO, is not a religion. It is the antithesis of religion. It may well turn out that the Religion of the AntiChrist will be Islam.........


67 posted on 11/22/2005 11:54:27 AM PST by Red Badger (United States Marine Corps, Saving France's Bacon Since 1775.............)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Technical means

68 posted on 11/22/2005 12:02:37 PM PST by usmcobra (30 years since I first celebrated The Marine Corps Birthday as a Marine)
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To: West Coast Conservative

One encouraging sign: no Zarqawi denial. Sure, he may be running, or laying low, but no denial yet. He was back within a couple of days of the famous Zawahiri letter, denouncing it as a forgery. He was back within a four or five days of the Jordan bombing, denying responsibility. A couple of more days of not hearing from the bastard, and maybe we can start to hope.


69 posted on 11/22/2005 12:29:04 PM PST by pawdoggie
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To: martin_fierro

S i g h!

Thanks. :-)

Pinz


70 posted on 11/22/2005 12:34:11 PM PST by pinz-n-needlez
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To: rhc2000

Z-man may be having trouble talking about now. Practice your Arabic-style mincing dance steps, with your arms held out from your sides. If we don't hear from him soon, that will be a good indicator. The wedding in Jordan may have been his funeral.


71 posted on 11/22/2005 12:41:37 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: massgopguy

Is he pining for the fjords? Is he an ex-terrorist?


72 posted on 11/22/2005 12:41:37 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: No Blue States

We could just say that we got him, and when he pops back up then we just say "Nah, that's a phoney."


73 posted on 11/22/2005 12:42:38 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: West Coast Conservative

-PJ

74 posted on 11/22/2005 12:47:28 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: Constantine XIII
Thats funny but it really sounds like great pysops.
"No really I am Z, you must believe me."
75 posted on 11/22/2005 12:58:59 PM PST by No Blue States
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To: txflake

LOL. Thanks for thinking of me. ;-)


76 posted on 11/22/2005 7:23:45 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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