Technical means
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.
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.
..I forgot how great 'bald' can look.
You saw him too? Wow!
Radical muslims are just like drug dealers and suck asses,,,you get rid of one you got two more wanting to take their place.
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.
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.
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.........
Technical means
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.
S i g h!
Thanks. :-)
Pinz
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.
Is he pining for the fjords? Is he an ex-terrorist?
We could just say that we got him, and when he pops back up then we just say "Nah, that's a phoney."
-PJ
LOL. Thanks for thinking of me. ;-)
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