Good News Al-Zarqawi Finally Knocked Off

BNaylor · #1 06-08-2006, 07:37 AM

This certainly is good news but I wonder if the insurgency attacks in Iraq will ever decrease with his death.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings of hostages, has been killed in a precision airstrike, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday. It was a long-sought victory in the war in Iraq.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13195017/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/...raq_al_zarqawi

highteknology · #2 06-08-2006, 08:20 AM

i was watching the local news this morning and they came on with the announcement that they had killed him. honestly, it sort of brightened my day. it seems like the US is MAYBE make some head way over there. i think it is good that we were able to get him, but i don't know if it will really quell the attacks that the troops face over there. either way i think it is a positive step in the whole mess.

drunken monkey · #3 06-08-2006, 01:17 PM

the way the groups are organised and run, the death of an individual doesn't really mean a lot.
all that will happen is that someone else will quickly take his place.

YogsVR4 · #4 06-08-2006, 05:07 PM

Though there may be others to take his place, they will not likely be as devious and as firey of a leader as he was. Also, the diffuse orginaztion structure that makes Al-Qaida such a difficult group to destroy also makes it hard for them to reorganize when their leadership is removed.

I believe this is going to hurt the long term planning and logistics of the insurgents.

03cavPA · #5 06-08-2006, 05:17 PM

May he rest in pieces.

TexasF355F1 · #6 06-08-2006, 09:08 PM

Nicholas Burg's dad is a piece of shit. They cut his sons fucking head off and he wished he could have had a reconciliation with the guy.

BNaylor · #7 06-08-2006, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by TexasF355F1

Nicholas Burg's dad is a piece of shit. They cut his sons fucking head off and he wished he could have had a reconciliation with the guy.

He sounds like a bitter old man with an agenda. He should be grateful his son's death was avenged. Speaking of which his son was not media, in the armed forces or a missionary, etc. He was a businessman that went to Iraq for personal gain riding on the shirt tails of the invasion and subsequent occupation and lost his head over it. No one forced him to go to Iraq.

Eugene Armstrong's family said this:

"An evil man is dead, and what more can you say?" said family spokeswoman Cyndi Armstrong, the wife of the slain contractor's cousin.

mellowboy · #8 06-08-2006, 10:40 PM

I would say good riddance but theres no pictures of the boody yet.

BNaylor · #9 06-08-2006, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by mellowboy

I would say good riddance but theres no pictures of the boody yet.

It was plastered all over the evening news. Here is a link for what it is worth. Even his followers have admitted he is dead and claim he is now a martyr.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/..._al_zarqawi_44

mellowboy · #10 06-08-2006, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bnaylor

It was plastered all over the evening news. Here is a link for what it is worth. Even his followers have admitted he is dead and claim he is now a martyr.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/..._al_zarqawi_44

I was just watching the Qatar news channel...saw his picture. So yes good riddance

Duckkie07 · #11 06-09-2006, 10:16 PM

I knew it was going to be a good day when I saw Fox News head line say that and then they showed live footage of the USS Cole sailing off toward the Mideast. To me it seemed like throwing salt in the wound.

BNaylor · #12 06-12-2006, 09:56 AM

According to the latest news he lived up to an hour after the bombs were dropped. Too bad he did not live longer and suffer more like his victims.

Duckkie07 · #13 06-12-2006, 11:42 AM

They need to stop cleaning them up so damn good making it look like they didn't even get a scratch on 'em. Need to show everyone how F-ed he really was.

Shpyder · #14 06-20-2006, 01:37 AM

Not to steal Zaqawi's thunder, but anyone notice how finding Bin Laden just aint the same priority it was immediately after 9/11? Politics....sigh.

Duckkie07 · #15 06-20-2006, 12:11 PM

It's probab;y because he's not as big of a threat anymore. He dosen't have the ability to plan and carry them out like the other Al Quaeda ppl. But when they do find him I hope they put him in Levinworth when he gets sentenced executing him would only make him a martyr.

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