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18 July 2010 "TOP TEN JIHADI FORUMS, 19 JULY 2010"

Monday, June 12, 2006 Quick-Thinking Army Doctors Tried to Save Al-Zarqawi with Manual Prostate Exam Medical records indicate that Army doctors who tended to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in his final minutes bravely tried to save the terror mastermind with a series of prostate and colon exams they thought might reveal the true extent of his injuries. "Since there were no real external injuries, we had to make some quick decisions about what we were dealing with," said Army Field Surgeon Sgt. Cal Harper. "We voted, and it was unanimous: a rectal exam was the logical first step. " "It...

Almost overlooked in the celebrations surrounding the elimination of Zarqawi is a considerable body of evidence that the Lion of Anbar was seeking to dramatically extend the range of his operations. The day before Zarqawi was at last struck down, the London Times carried a short piece reporting on an international intelligence operation that had uncovered a terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi operating in at least eight countries. The following Sunday, the New York Times published a weakly-sourced article stating that Zarqawi had recruited and trained up to 300 foreign operatives who were sent back to their own...

Zarqawi "Deeply Humbled" By Senate Debate Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, head of the terrorist group al Qaeda in Iraq, said through a spokesman Tuesday that an amendment authored by Senator John McCain has left him “deeply humbled” by the US Senate’s willingness to forcefully confront the issue of torture. Zarqawi, forced against his will to fight by an imperialistic US policy, pauses during his tireless struggle, to reflect on the meaning of good and evil. Zarqawi, who has been conducting a Iranian- backed resistance against the nascent Iraqi democracy, is believed to have been fundamentally shaken by the prospect...

Al Qaeda remains trapped in a Vietnam fantasy. It is desperately trying to produce an "Iraqi Tet" -- a Middle Eastern repetition of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong 1968 offensive in South Vietnam. On April 2 and again on April 4, the terrorist gang led by al Qaeda's Iraq commander, Abu Musab Zarqawi, launched "military-style attacks" on the Abu Ghraib prison complex in Baghdad. In the April 4 assault, U.S. forces took 44 casualties (most of them minor wounds). The terrorist gang, however, took 50 casualties, out of a force estimated at 60 gunmen. On April 11, the gang...

Our correspondents explore the world of al-ZarqawiANY day now a new batch of DVDs will appear on the stalls of Baghdad’s thieves’ market courtesy of Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, one of the world’s most ruthless terrorists. They will show Eugene Armstrong, the American contractor seized in Baghdad last week with another American and the Briton Kenneth Bigley, having his head severed from his body in 35 agonising seconds by al-Zarqawi and his hooded henchmen. There is by now a well-established market for these “snuff movies” released by the “media section” of al-Zarqawi’s Tawhid wal Jihad group (Unity and Holy War),...

FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. forces have launched new attacks in the towns of Falluja and Tal Afar, which they say are havens for foreign militant fighters, killing a number of Iraqis in air strikes and gun battles. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/09/iraq.main/index.html

Al-Zarqawi Claims Responsibility for Samarra Attack Danica Kirka/Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A coordinated roadside bomb attack on a U.S. convoy in northern Iraq killed a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi civilian Sunday, the military said. The attack, in which one soldier also was wounded, began Sunday in Beiji about 90 miles south of the northern city of Mosul when a bomb exploded at the side of the road, the military said in a statement. A vehicle then raced toward the patrol and fired on the soldiers, who returned fire, killing the driver, the military said. The attack set...

Jihad leader Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist and the most wanted man in Iraq, this weekend released a telling window into his organization, Attawhid wal Jihad, or Unity and Jihad. In a slickly produced hour-long video Zarqawi lays bare the milieu of his suicide bombers, their safehouses, their rituals and their targeting guidelines. Given directly to TIME, the video is a bold, menacing statement of the group's intent and capability. The subtext of this disturbing tape is that for the U.S. this is likely to be a long, drawn out fight in Iraq against a committed, well-organized enemy. The...

Al-Zarqawi couldn’t kill women, children, says wife AMMAN: The wife of suspected al-Qaeda ally Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi said in an interview published on Thursday that her husband could not be a terrorist responsible for killing women and children. "There’s no way that my husband could be a terrorist. He is friendly and a good man", the woman, who identified herself as Umm Mohammed said in an interview with Jordan’s second largest newspaper, ad-Dustour. "He would not recommend the killings of children, women and elderly people as they’re trying to portray him", she told the Arabic daily in an interview at the...

Iran is making trouble, and finessing it is a dangerous strategy. Abu Musab al Zarkawi, born Ahmad al Khalayla in Jordan, is the current deus ex machina of the terror war against the Coalition in Iraq. He is credited with numerous assassinations — including that of an American official, Thomas Foley, in Amman — and suicide bombings, along with the spectacular but little-reported attempt to launch a chemical attack against American targets in Jordan. Secretary of State Colin Powell named him on February 3, 2003, in his speech to the United Nations. Powell reported that Zarkawi had been sighted in...

Abu Musab al Zarkawi, born Ahmad al Khalayla in Jordan, is the current deus ex machina of the terror war against the Coalition in Iraq. He is credited with numerous assassinations — including that of an American official, Thomas Foley, in Amman — and suicide bombings, along with the spectacular but little-reported attempt to launch a chemical attack against American targets in Jordan. Secretary of State Colin Powell named him on February 3, 2003, in his speech to the United Nations. Powell reported that Zarkawi had been sighted in Baghdad, where one of his legs had been amputated due to...

One thing we've learned about Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein is that the former dictator was a diligent record keeper. Coalition forces have found -- literally -- millions of documents. These papers are still being sorted, translated and absorbed, but they are already turning up new facts about Saddam's links to terrorism. We realize that even raising this subject now is politically incorrect. It is an article of faith among war opponents that there were no links whatsoever -- that "secular" Saddam and fundamentalist Islamic terrorists didn't mix. But John Ashcroft's press conference yesterday reminds us that the...

Bush Says Zarqawi Killed Berg, Cites Saddam 'Ties' U.S. Military Bars Some Iraq Interrogation Methods By Caren Bohan MEQUON, Wis. (Reuters) - President Bush on Friday blamed al Qaeda supporter Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for beheading American Nicholas Berg and cited him as an example of Saddam Hussein's "terrorist ties" before the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Bush's revival of accusations linking Saddam to terrorism comes as the president faces growing doubts among Americans over his Iraq policy. At a fund-raising lunch in Bridgeton, Missouri, Bush said Zarqawi was an example of the threat posed by the ousted Iraqi leader. "We knew...

The Jihadis’ Primal Scream Zarkawi's "Yaarrrhhh!" Unless you depend on CNN for information — CNN totally and stunningly transformed the story, as Instapundit informed us yesterday — by now you have heard of the New York Times story about the discovery of a 17-page letter from Abu Musab al Zarkawi, written from Iraq in the middle of last month to the leaders of al Qaeda. It's an extremely explosive story. According to the Times — whose correspondent, Dexter Filkins, saw both the Arabic original and a military translation, and "wrote down large parts of the translation" — the letter is...