The Amazing al-Zarqawi

June 8th, 2006 at 21:44 Björn Hallberg

I thought I’d let this one slide given notoriously unreliable reporting in the past and the admission by the US that they had cultivated the al-Zarqawi myth to suit their needs. But al-Zarqawi is just too preposterous to avoid. Fortunately for me, others have already written plenty on the topic. So, here is al-Zarqawi, the abridged version …

Kurt Nimmo of Another Day in the Empire:

Let’s see. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the phantom terrorist with super-human powers, was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq, and then he was killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, followed by a death during Operation Matador near the town of Qaim on the Syrian border, and finally he was killed, along with his mentor, Osama bin Laden, in the besieged city of Fallujah. Now we are told he was “killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad [in the town of Hibhib near Baquba],” according to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Reuters reports.

Sploid’s equally pertinent summary:

Washington’s No. 1 terror bogeyman was reportedly killed again in Iraq last night, the White House claimed today.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was allegedly killed this time by massive U.S. bombing of a little house 30 miles north of Baghdad. Amazingly, Zarqawi was said to be still clinging to life even after 1,000 pounds of bombs rained down upon him.

Even more amazingly, he had grown back the leg he lost years ago.

Some “terror website” nobody’s ever heard of “confirmed” the mysterious Zarqawi’s death.

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