Happy Day! Zarquawi is dead...

[Taco John]

-- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq,
is dead, according to an aide to Iraq's prime minister.

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[chagrin]

Originally Posted by The Red Sea

I'm PROUD to be an American & I'm More than Proud of the soldiers who are over there determined to get The Job ahead of them done.

=P

I've shortened that for obvious reasons

Excellent post my friend, and no, they do not understand the sacrifice of those who were drafted, like my Uncle, Grandfather and many ancestors going back to the Civil War (and plenty of people opn this board who have friends and family that were drafted before and/or currently serve and died for their right to blaspheme current soldiers. If they do understand it, they simply don't give a shit.

You're new here so you will soon find out how sick some people can be with regards to how they express their radical ideas.

I join my other friend before, and say thanks for the voice and the points!

Now stay tuned, because I have an interesting poop thread forthcoming

[Donger]

al-Masri, you're next.

[Chiefnj]

Good news. The secret now is to quickly kill the little vermin who will be clamoring to replace him so that eventually nobody will want to step up.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by JBucc

Cool. Now we just need to get his sidekick, Flannela Al-Borlandi

I don't think so, Tim.

[RoadGrader]

Originally Posted by Lattimer

Here is his dead, bloated memyhusband face

too bad, I was hoping for more along these lines.......

[Bootlegged]

You can always count on our friends in the media to try to put the Downer on this news...

Congrats Newsweek, MSNBC, Reuters and AP.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13201242/


Al-Zarqawi relatives see a martyr for Islam
‘God willing there will be 1,000 Zarqawis to fight the Americans’

MSNBC News Services
Updated: 42 minutes ago

ZARQA, Jordan - In the bleak Jordanian city where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi grew up, shocked relatives mourned the al-Qaida in Iraq leader’s death as a loss to Islam and prayed for 1,000 “Zarqawis” to fight the Americans in his place.

“This is a tragedy. We are all sad here,” said al-Zarqawi’s uncle, Yazm Khalayleh, 64.

“We have to be sad because he was fighting the infidels. Anyone who says he is not sad is lying; people believe he is a martyr. We do not want to believe that he is dead.”

“God willing there will be 1,000 Zarqawis to fight the Americans,” another relative, Ahmed Khalayleh, told Reuters.

Born Ahmed Fadhil al-Khalayleh to a notable family that is part of the biggest tribe in Jordan, al-Zarqawi grew up in the dusty streets of Zarqa, an industrial city where unemployment is high and Islamic militancy widespread.

Jailed by Jordanian authorities for several years in the early 1990s, al-Zarqawi went on to fight U.S. forces in Iraq, where Osama bin Laden named him the “prince” of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Family gathers at home
Relatives gathered Thursday at the three-story house where Zarqawi was born, opposite a cemetery where he used to spend time with his friends as a youngster.

“He is a martyr for Islam. This is a major loss for Islam,” Zarqawi’s brother-in-law, Saleh al-Hami said. “God willing he is going to the heavens.”

Sayel al-Khalayleh, al-Zarqawi's older brother, told The Associated Press that “we anticipated that he would be killed for a very long time. ... We hope that he will join other martyrs in heaven.”

Al-Zarqawi's three sisters, all dressed in black, arrived at family home looking grief stricken.

Accompanied by a man who was the husband of one, the sisters declined to talk to reporters as they entered the house. The husband, who identified himself as Abu Qudama, said: "We're not sad that he's dead."

"To the contrary, we're happy because he's a martyr and he's now in heaven," added the man, who said he lost one of his legs fighting Russian forces in Afghanistan as part of the Islamic Mujahedeen.

In front of the family house, a 13-year-old boy, who said he was al-Zarqawi's nephew, stared at a crush of reporters who had gathered there.

"I'm so sad about my uncle," said the boy, who identified himself as Omar.

Not all on his side
There were no public signs of grieving or celebration in Zarqa, Jordan’s second largest city and located 16 miles northeast of Amman, but not everyone shared in the mood of sadness that hung over the city.

Some said Zarqawi, thought to be in his late 30s, had been killing other Muslims in Iraq, rather than fighting the American forces occupying their neighbor.

“I am happy he was killed because he used to kill Muslims just like non-Muslims. He did not distinguish,” said Sameh Dawood, a resident of Zarqa.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[Ugly Duck]

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Absolutely amazing that you can’t just say something like, good job.
Well not really, it’s exactly what I expected when I heard the news this morning.
Hell, even tTC who hates this administration with a seething passion that can be smelled through my monitor had enough class to say this.

Rep to you, tTC.

?? Perhaps you misunderstood. When I said "Great!" - I meant it.

[StcChief]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

ps. If you're in a safehouse with an asshole the scale of Zarqawi, you're no longer innocent, or a civilian imo.

Agreed. But the JackA$$ media here/there will spin it as killing civilians too. If your not smart enough to stay away from the AQ, you get whatever happens.

local hoopleheads

[Boozer]

Rest in pieces.

[the Talking Can]

[schwarzenegger voice]Rest in pieces.[/schwarzenegger voice]

[Bootlegged]

Originally Posted by Lattimer

You can always count on our friends in the media to try to put the Downer on this news...

Congrats Newsweek, MSNBC, Reuters and AP.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13201242/


Al-Zarqawi relatives see a martyr for Islam
‘God willing there will be 1,000 Zarqawis to fight the Americans’

MSNBC News Services
Updated: 42 minutes ago

ZARQA, Jordan - In the bleak Jordanian city where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi grew up, shocked relatives mourned the al-Qaida in Iraq leader’s death as a loss to Islam and prayed for 1,000 “Zarqawis” to fight the Americans in his place.

“This is a tragedy. We are all sad here,” said al-Zarqawi’s uncle, Yazm Khalayleh, 64.

“We have to be sad because he was fighting the infidels. Anyone who says he is not sad is lying; people believe he is a martyr. We do not want to believe that he is dead.”

“God willing there will be 1,000 Zarqawis to fight the Americans,” another relative, Ahmed Khalayleh, told Reuters.

Born Ahmed Fadhil al-Khalayleh to a notable family that is part of the biggest tribe in Jordan, al-Zarqawi grew up in the dusty streets of Zarqa, an industrial city where unemployment is high and Islamic militancy widespread.

Jailed by Jordanian authorities for several years in the early 1990s, al-Zarqawi went on to fight U.S. forces in Iraq, where Osama bin Laden named him the “prince” of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Family gathers at home
Relatives gathered Thursday at the three-story house where Zarqawi was born, opposite a cemetery where he used to spend time with his friends as a youngster.

“He is a martyr for Islam. This is a major loss for Islam,” Zarqawi’s brother-in-law, Saleh al-Hami said. “God willing he is going to the heavens.”

Sayel al-Khalayleh, al-Zarqawi's older brother, told The Associated Press that “we anticipated that he would be killed for a very long time. ... We hope that he will join other martyrs in heaven.”

Al-Zarqawi's three sisters, all dressed in black, arrived at family home looking grief stricken.

Accompanied by a man who was the husband of one, the sisters declined to talk to reporters as they entered the house. The husband, who identified himself as Abu Qudama, said: "We're not sad that he's dead."

"To the contrary, we're happy because he's a martyr and he's now in heaven," added the man, who said he lost one of his legs fighting Russian forces in Afghanistan as part of the Islamic Mujahedeen.

In front of the family house, a 13-year-old boy, who said he was al-Zarqawi's nephew, stared at a crush of reporters who had gathered there.

"I'm so sad about my uncle," said the boy, who identified himself as Omar.

Not all on his side
There were no public signs of grieving or celebration in Zarqa, Jordan’s second largest city and located 16 miles northeast of Amman, but not everyone shared in the mood of sadness that hung over the city.

Some said Zarqawi, thought to be in his late 30s, had been killing other Muslims in Iraq, rather than fighting the American forces occupying their neighbor.

“I am happy he was killed because he used to kill Muslims just like non-Muslims. He did not distinguish,” said Sameh Dawood, a resident of Zarqa.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Fox picks up the AP story, but the presentation/headlines is noticibly different.


FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD
Al-Zarqawi's Brother Says Family Expected His Death
Thursday, June 08, 2006
AMMAN, Jordan — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's older brother said Thursday that the family had anticipated the death of the notorious Al Qaeda in Iraq leader for some time.

"We anticipated that he would be killed for a very long time," Sayel al-Khalayleh told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Zarqa, the poor industrial town that Al-Zarqawi called home and from which he derived his name.

"We expected that he would be martyred," he said, in a low voice, signaling his grief over the death of his brother, whose real name is Ahmed Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh.

"We hope that he will join other martyrs in heaven," he added.

In Zarqa, Al-Zarqawi's three sisters, all dressed in black, arrived at the one-story family home looking grief stricken. Accompanied by a man who was the husband of one, the sisters declined to talk to reporters as they entered the house.

The husband, who identified himself as Abu Qudama, said: "We're not sad that he's dead."

"To the contrary, we're happy because he's a martyr and he's now in heaven," added the man, who said he lost one of his legs fighting Russian forces in Afghanistan as part of the Islamic Mujahedeen.

In front of the family house, a 13-year-old boy, who said he was Al-Zarqawi's nephew, stared at a crush of reporters who had gathered there.

"I'm so sad about my uncle," said the boy, who identified himself as Omar.

He said the family heard the news of Al-Zarqawi's death on Al-Jazeera satellite channel.

Other family members declined to come outside to speak to reporters, who knocked several times on their door.

In the wake of a triple hotel bombings in Amman last November, claimed by Al-Zarqawi's group, the family of the Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader renounced him, telling King Abdullah II that they "severed links with him until doomsday."

In newspaper advertisements, 57 members of the al-Khalayleh family, including Al-Zarqawi's same brother — Sayel — reiterated their strong allegiance to the king.

Al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks on the three Amman-based Western hotels, which killed 63 people, including three Iraqi suicide bombers whom Al-Zarqawi said he had sent them on a suicide mission to Jordan.

The bombings, which included an attack on a Jordanian-Palestinian Muslim wedding, sparked widespread outrage among Jordanians who had been sympathetic to insurgents battling the U.S. military presence in Iraq.

Al-Zarqawi's group has vowed more strikes in Jordan, a U.S. ally that signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994 and has been the target of several Al Qaeda terror plots because of its moderate stance and vocal criticism of extremist Islamic groups.

Jordan's State Security Court has sentenced Al-Zarqawi to death in absentia three times for involvement in terror plots against his native country. One of the attacks was the assassination of U.S. aid official Laurence Foley, who was gunned down in Amman in 2002.

In the last two years, Al-Zarqawi has been blamed for several failed terror plots in Jordan, including Aug. 19 missile strikes that narrowly missed two U.S. warships docked in the Red Sea port of Aqaba and another one involving a chemical attack on the Amman headquarters of the country's intelligence agency

[StcChief]

"We expected that he would be martyred," he said, in a low voice, signaling his grief over the death of his brother, whose real name is Ahmed Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh.

"We hope that he will join other martyrs in heaven," he added.

The virgins await his arrival.

I think he will be sadly surprised...his vision of heaven isn't what he expected. It's called HELL.

[Chiefnj]

Originally Posted by Lattimer

Fox picks up the AP story, but the presentation/headlines is noticibly different.

Is it really a "downer" that MSNBC focuses on the quote that a family members hopes he will be replaced by a 1000 others while Fox omits the quote?

[Bootlegged]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj

Is it really a "downer" that MSNBC focuses on the quote that a family members hopes he will be replaced by a 1000 others while Fox omits the quote?

The tone of the stories is very telling. Same AP Story.

Headline from Newsweek/MSNBC

Al-Zarqawi relatives see a martyr for Islam
‘God willing there will be 1,000 Zarqawis to fight the Americans’

Headline from Fox
Al-Zarqawi's Brother Says Family Expected His Death


Newsweek/MSNBC
Not all on his side
There were no public signs of grieving or celebration in Zarqa, Jordan’s second largest city and located 16 miles northeast of Amman, but not everyone shared in the mood of sadness that hung over the city.

Some said Zarqawi, thought to be in his late 30s, had been killing other Muslims in Iraq, rather than fighting the American forces occupying their neighbor.

“I am happy he was killed because he used to kill Muslims just like non-Muslims. He did not distinguish,” said Sameh Dawood, a resident of Zarqa.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


FoxAl-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks on the three Amman-based Western hotels, which killed 63 people, including three Iraqi suicide bombers whom Al-Zarqawi said he had sent them on a suicide mission to Jordan.

The bombings, which included an attack on a Jordanian-Palestinian Muslim wedding, sparked widespread outrage among Jordanians who had been sympathetic to insurgents battling the U.S. military presence in Iraq.

Al-Zarqawi's group has vowed more strikes in Jordan, a U.S. ally that signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994 and has been the target of several Al Qaeda terror plots because of its moderate stance and vocal criticism of extremist Islamic groups.

Jordan's State Security Court has sentenced Al-Zarqawi to death in absentia three times for involvement in terror plots against his native country. One of the attacks was the assassination of U.S. aid official Laurence Foley, who was gunned down in Amman in 2002.

In the last two years, Al-Zarqawi has been blamed for several failed terror plots in Jordan, including Aug. 19 missile strikes that narrowly missed two U.S. warships docked in the Red Sea port of Aqaba and another one involving a chemical attack on the Amman headquarters of the country's intelligence agency

[Iowanian]

It sounds like his funeral in his home town would be a good place for a daisy cutter.


With a little luck, may Bin Laden and Omar join him in hell for the swine orgy.