June 08, 2006
Al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, Abu Musab al Zarqawi is dead! This post to be updated throughout the day.
[Right: An image of the dead al Zarqawi from Howie]
Vinnie's original report on Zarqawi's death. Demosophist: The Jeb Stuart al Zarqawi connection.
Today is one of the happiest days of my life. When I heard the news, I literally started crying.
To quote myself: Ding dong, the bitch is dead!!! Update: Great minds think alike.
Long-time readers know that The Jawa Report has had a personal grudge against al Zarqawi. Zarqawi first appeared on our radar screen when he was the leader of Tawhid and Jihad and began producing beheading snuff films distributed on the internet.
It was the murder of Nick Berg by Zarqawi, more than anything else, that set The Jawa Report on its present path. Seeing Nick Berg being murdered by al Zarqawi caused a reaction in my that is difficult to describe. It angered me. It made the war on terror personal. It made killing Zarqawi a personal goal for me.
In fact, over the past year or so not a single day has gone by when I have not fantasized that Zarqawi was either dead or captured. Today, my dream has come true!
Flashback: Nick Berg Gave Password to Terrorist
Log-time reader and hostage watcher George: Nick Berg and Eugene Armstrong's killer has finally died. I would have prefered he be beheaded but at least he's dead. Nick and Eugene are smiling from above. I am sure of that. Maybe now we'll finally get Bin Laden. I have more hope now. I always knew we would get Zarqawi since he was in Iraq. Today is a good day Rusty. RIP Nick and Eugene.
Amen!
Report from Baghdad on Iraqi reaction:
Mid-morning local time the news broke, Abu Musab al Zarqawi has been killed. The celebrations on the street and the cheers at the press conference announcing this news may seem odd to some in the comfortable confines of the west. While a BBC reporter today referred to al Zarqawi as a “controversial leader of the resistance†the reaction among most Iraqis lacks such nuance, they are glad for one simple reason, al Zarqawi is dead.More reaction from Iraq: CONGRATULATIONS TO IRAQ, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WHOLE WORLD ON THIS VICTORY.The reactions among Iraqis to the death of al Zarqawi is quite different than that to the similar demise of Uday and Qusay. The deaths of the brothers Hussein was met with a jumble of emotions among Iraqis in 2003: some saw them as leaders while most saw them as the homicidal maniacs they were. The reaction to the death of al Zarqawi is far more visceral, akin to ridding one’s house of a menacing rat.
A reserved Sunni intellectual who is quite particular in the language he uses summed up the feeling surrounding al Zarqawi’s death: “Goddamn that motherfucker for what he has done to Iraq.â€
The death came courtesy of Task Force 145.
Video of al-Maliki announcing it.
The husband [of one of Zarqawi’s sisters], who identified himself as Abu Qudama, said: “We’re not sad that he’s dead.â€According to CENTCOM, one of Zarqwi's key lieutenants was also killed in the raid, spiritual advisor Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman.“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 Mujahedein.
Reaction from the Left. Cut-and-run. And more. More Lefty 'elation'.
Nick Berg's father feels no relief that son's murderer killed. More from the 'peace dad'.
More insanity from Mr. Berg: Zarqawi's death will foster anti-American resentment among Al Qaeda members
Image before it was cleaned up via Michelle who has a roundup of her own.
How is Haditha related to Zarqawi's death? Because pro-insurgent forces love to lie about each and every incident in which someone in Iraq is killed. For instance, Lawrence at Is Full of Crap points us to this reaction from a resident of the town in which Zarqawi was killed as reported in the NY Times:
"Zarqawi. Zarqawi. Zarqawi. That's all we hear about. Zarqawi was not here. This home belonged to displaced people,'' said a village resident, holding up a teddy bear and a child's knapsack buried in the destruction.So, one of the most evil & vile scumbags on the earth is killed and the reaction is....blame the Americans for killing children. See how this works and why we should be skeptical of claims of massacres in Iraq?
Think Bluto's post about the MSM reaction is overblown? Read this report from the Financial Times. Not only is the importance of the Zarqeermaster's death downplayed, the al-Qaeda link is also questioned.
Right reaction: Beth:
HAHA, you fucking son of a whore, may the maggots in hell choke on the stench of your filthy rotting corpse. Fuck you, you dead piece of less-than-worthless garbage! Let Satan himself and all his pet goats skull-fuck you until your ugly fucked up head pops off. 72 virgins? Heh. Virgin leper hogs, maybe.Somewhere in Hell there will be 72 very sore sheep tonight
Welcome to hell, Abu, you goat-raping half-a-man.
Hot damn, pizzas for everyone!
The elimination of Zarqawi and his henchmen will kneecap the foreign insurgency.
See-Dub: I guess that machine gun he was working so hard at firing didn’t come in to handy, now, did it?
National Day of Mourning declared by French youth
Human Rights Groups Kill Abu Masab al-Zarqawi
Oyster: do not pass go, do not collect any virgins:
Pundit with good roundup. Lot's over at Hugh Hewitt from Hugh and Mary Katherine. White House Press Release:
Zarqawi Was The Operational Commander Of The Terrorist Movement In Iraq. Osama bin Laden called him the "Prince of al-Qaeda in Iraq." Al-Qaeda identified Iraq as "the greatest battle" in its global war.Special Operations Forces, Acting On Tips And Intelligence From Iraqis, Confirmed Zarqawi's Location – And Delivered Justice To The Most Wanted Terrorist In Iraq. Zarqawi was conducting a meeting at an identified, isolated safe house north of Baqubah.
Zarqawi's Death Is A Severe Blow To Al-Qaeda, A Victory For The Iraqi People, And An Opportunity For Iraq's New Government To Begin To Turn The Tide Of This Struggle.
Zarqawi Was The Operational Commander Of The Terrorist Movement In Iraq. He personally beheaded American hostages and other civilians in Iraq. He led a campaign of car bombings, assassinations, and suicide attacks that have taken the lives of many Americans and thousands of innocent Iraqis. Osama bin Laden called this Jordanian terrorist the "Prince of al-Qaeda in Iraq" – and called on terrorists around the world to "listen to him and obey him."
Zarqawi Sought To Defeat America And Our Coalition Partners – And Turn Iraq Into A Safe Haven From Which Al-Qaeda Could Wage Its War On The West. He had declared that "we fight today in Iraq, and tomorrow in the Land of the Two Holy Places, and after there the West."
Iraqi Security Forces Played A Critical Role In The Operation. Tips provided to Iraqi security forces, as well as intelligence from Iraqi senior leaders from his network, led forces to al-Zarqawi. Iraqi police were first on the scene after the air strike, followed by Coalition forces.
Zarqawi And Terrorists Affiliated With Or Inspired By Al-Qaeda Are A Small But Lethal Component Of The Enemy In Iraq. They are responsible for the most dramatic atrocities which kill the most people, and they seek to spread their ideology beyond Iraq. We can expect the terrorists to carry on without him.
But Zarqawi's Death Is A Significant Blow To Al-Qaeda - In Iraq And Everywhere. Last summer, al-Qaeda's number two leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, declared Iraq to be "the place for the greatest battle." With his death, al-Qaeda has lost its senior leader in the primary front in the War on Terror.
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Posted by: Michelle Z. at June 08, 2006 09:20 AM (fXkLc)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/berg.interview/
Posted by: Jack Miller at June 08, 2006 09:20 AM (CnDtU)
Posted by: Jack Miler at June 08, 2006 09:22 AM (CnDtU)
Let's chop his head off too. That'll learn him.
Posted by: Party Pooper at June 08, 2006 09:28 AM (UHKaK)
Posted by: Jack Miller at June 08, 2006 09:39 AM (CnDtU)
Posted by: Party Pooper at June 08, 2006 10:20 AM (UHKaK)
Just reading the links show that Nick Berg was a jew traitor to this country giving passwords and assistnace to these filthy arabs. He got what he deserved in the end--a just reward for his anti American activities.
I personally plan to show the Berg video at my 8 year olds birthdy party next month and to all of his friends so they can see what happens to traitors and who the enemy really is, all arabs.
So Zarqawi is finally dead, fine. We will not rest until every arab man woman and child has also been slaughtered.
God Bless America
Posted by: Unashamed Patriot at June 08, 2006 10:22 AM (Nhfns)
Posted by: Oyster at June 08, 2006 10:31 AM (ULAbo)
Posted by: Grim Reaper at June 08, 2006 10:33 AM (fO5UN)
Good thing for Bush now, since his ratings plummeted. Maybe now that Zarqawi's dead, it'll take the heat off of those poor Marines accused of shooting civilians at random.
Posted by: Laura at June 08, 2006 10:33 AM (WeRWZ)
Posted by: glenn at June 08, 2006 10:41 AM (UHKaK)
Posted by: Oyster at June 08, 2006 10:44 AM (ULAbo)
Posted by: Party Pooper at June 08, 2006 10:51 AM (UHKaK)
RIP, Berg, Armstrong, Bigley, and all the others.
This news is not going away anytime soon. The allegations against those Marines will take a much needed break. I hope they get off, fuck 'em, this is a war, right? Anything goes.
Posted by: Laura at June 08, 2006 10:57 AM (WeRWZ)
That seals it for me. I need no further proof that Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 08, 2006 11:00 AM (8e/V4)
Posted by: glenn at June 08, 2006 11:05 AM (UHKaK)
Exactly, screw this "winning hearts and minds" shit.
Blow away a couple of their toddlers and old ladies, maybe they'll start getting it: don't fuck with the USA.
Posted by: Party Pooper at June 08, 2006 11:12 AM (UHKaK)
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Posted by: slimangel at June 08, 2006 11:20 AM (ZYbRZ)
Thanks also to all those who would have pushed for rights for this maniac had he been captured. The US Military was thinking of you when they decided to drop bombs through the roof instead of special forces through the windows!
Posted by: Fred Fry at June 08, 2006 11:22 AM (JXdhy)
Arabs are subhuman filth lower than cockroaches. I teach my son that if you ever encounter an arab you shoot them first no questions asked. He must know that arabs only wish to harm others and rape children.
Praise Jesus and God Bless America
Posted by: Unashamed Patriot at June 08, 2006 11:28 AM (Nhfns)
Posted by: Cmunk at June 08, 2006 11:31 AM (7teJ9)
Posted by: Greg at June 08, 2006 11:41 AM (q5wwn)
I think ALL of Bluto's reactions to the MSM are overblown, fueled largely by sweeping generalizations, logical fallacies and non sequiturs that stretch the bounds of reason.
Posted by: glenn at June 08, 2006 12:46 PM (UHKaK)
More evidence Liberals suffer from a mental disorder.
I'm staring at the pic of dead Zarqawi and it fills me with such a calm and peace. I can actually feel the endorphins and dopamine begin to flow. Is that wrong? He looks like he's sleeping peacefully, but his soul is now burning in an everlasting eternal hell.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 08, 2006 12:50 PM (8e/V4)
Though I am somewhat saddened, now who will I make fun of for being a stupid monkey unable to fire a gun in a propaganda video made to make us fear them?
Unashamed Patriot...you sound like Guy de Lusignan or Reynauld de Chatillon. They believed much the same thing before setting out for Hattin. God and Jesus were on their side, it did not matter that Saladin held vast numerical superiority in a startegically and logistically superior position. It did not get them too far (especially Reynauld). Fighting smart, not zealously, wins the day.
Posted by: Ranba Ral at June 08, 2006 12:53 PM (S+598)
Posted by: TheWingedAvenger at June 08, 2006 12:57 PM (UHKaK)
to prepare us for a huge attack here that they can then
say was revenge.watch!!!
Posted by: judd at June 08, 2006 01:03 PM (PTskS)
I saw a reporter ask someone why didn't they show the rest of Zarqawi's body, and just the face? They said it was "too gruesome" from the attack....bullshit! Bring it on! Hey, we saw the beheading videos, this would be a piece of cake to watch!
Then again, maybe his head is all that's left of the bastard.
GOD BLESS AMERICA. REJOICE!!!
Posted by: Laura at June 08, 2006 01:12 PM (WeRWZ)
Posted by: blackdog at June 08, 2006 01:13 PM (U5mdE)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 08, 2006 01:19 PM (CnDtU)
Hmmm....
Posted by: Party Pooper at June 08, 2006 01:28 PM (UHKaK)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 08, 2006 01:30 PM (CnDtU)
Posted by: Party Pooper at June 08, 2006 01:33 PM (UHKaK)
Posted by: iGNORANT jACKOFF at June 08, 2006 02:31 PM (ZucvC)
>>>What pisses me off is that Nick's father doesn't appreciate the fact that his son's killer is dead.
That seals it for me. I need no further proof that Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 8, 2006 11:00 AM
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Yeah, really. Wasn't Jesus a screwball? I'll bet that wacko is spewing some kind of love your enemy garbage that only liberals with mental disorders agree with. Kill'em all. The real god will sort them out.
Posted by: iGNORANT jACKOFF at June 08, 2006 02:34 PM (ZucvC)
ROPMA
Posted by: Leatherneck at June 08, 2006 02:49 PM (D2g/j)
I guess youse guys don't "see" my tongue in my cheek, eh? Do you really think I condone innocent civilians getting killed? Hell no. But when insurgents are shooting at you, using them as human shields, what the fuck else is left to do? Stand there and take it? War sucks, get over it.
Posted by: Laura at June 08, 2006 02:49 PM (WeRWZ)
anyways i just like to say Al-Zarqawi got Pwn3d!!!!!!11111
C'mon say it with me. ALLAHU AKBAR! indeed.
...you gotta say that phrase at the correct moment.
Posted by: Billy Faeth at June 08, 2006 03:18 PM (c6Dyg)
But what if it really is revealed the three Marines the investigation is targeting actually walked in to this house, shot that old lady in her wheelchair, a mom and her kid in bed, and 19 other unarmed men, women and children?
I'd say it kinda makes it hard to sell ourselves as liberators and friends, not to mention un-doing the "hearts-and-mids" work of tens of thousands of other soldiers over the past three years, don't you think?
Are you willing to "Get over that?" Betcha the miliary Courts-Martial won't.
Posted by: Party Pooper at June 08, 2006 03:40 PM (UHKaK)
Posted by iGNORANT jACKOFF at June 8, 2006 02:31 PM
Is he any less dead? conspiracy kooks coming out of the woodwork I see -- did Karl Rove use the Roswell space saucer, with it's anti-matter ray to kill him IJ?
Have you see his body below the neckline?
Posted by: davec at June 08, 2006 03:48 PM (CcXvt)
Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? Were you an OJ supporter as well?
Posted by: Laura at June 08, 2006 03:59 PM (WeRWZ)
Can you imagine the field day you conspiracy theorists would be having if he had been damaged beyond recognition??? lol! Sorry to dissapoint you.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 08, 2006 04:22 PM (8e/V4)
Posted by: Jester at June 08, 2006 04:23 PM (oDbIP)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 08, 2006 04:47 PM (CnDtU)
Did you see the words "what if" in my post? That means "WHAT IF they are," not "they are." You gotta take a minute to read all the way through for comprehension.
Posted by: Party Pooper at June 08, 2006 05:43 PM (oxMjD)
-C
Posted by: Chris at June 08, 2006 05:52 PM (EHnBF)
Posted by: greyrooster at June 08, 2006 08:23 PM (4Ospb)
Posted by: REMF at June 08, 2006 09:09 PM (7RMSi)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 09, 2006 06:59 AM (CnDtU)
Posted by: john ryan at June 09, 2006 07:46 AM (TcoRJ)
Who gives a crap. Serves the bitch right for being married to the guy. Too bad for the kid I guess. I consider him just another victim of Zarq's terrorism.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 09, 2006 08:08 AM (8e/V4)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 09, 2006 08:26 AM (CnDtU)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 09, 2006 08:34 AM (CnDtU)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 09, 2006 08:42 AM (CnDtU)
Alan Combs bitched about them killing him. He said he was probably more valuable alive than dead. He said if we knew he was in there, why didn't we take him as prisoner? Well, maybe it's because we failed on the other 56 attempts!
Posted by: Laura at June 09, 2006 08:42 AM (WeRWZ)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 09, 2006 08:59 AM (CnDtU)
I don't know if it's true though, that he tried to escape from the gurney.....the reporters have said that the only took a head shot of him dead because the rest of him was "too gruesome" to be shown....which would mean the rest of him must've been blown off or mangled, so how could he try to run away? I believe this with a grain of salt, like I do all other reports.
But one thing we do know for sure....the bastard's DEAD!
Posted by: Laura at June 09, 2006 09:04 AM (WeRWZ)
Posted by: Spanky at June 09, 2006 09:57 AM (Xk8Hy)
Posted by: Nice man at June 10, 2006 08:50 PM (c7ncZ)
Posted by: ARGENTO at June 10, 2006 11:09 PM (tuzo2)
Posted by: Jester at June 11, 2006 04:16 PM (TuAMG)
The very term "terrorist" denotes one who uses terror as a primary weapon.
Guess what? They win-even when you blow one up. They'll just recruit another one. You, on the other hand, still go to bed afraid, and still allow your government to strip your "American way of life" in the interests of "security". You still keep spending boatloads of money that could be fortifying dikes in LA, sending boatloads of men to die in Iraq that could instead be helping to rebuild New Orleans. You think blowing up one guy or even 1000 guys is going to make the rest of them run and hide? You obviously don't get the mentality of these ppl.
There is only one way to win the "war on terror".
Stop making it a war. Go about your day, live your life like it's your last day on earth, stick up for your constitutional rights. Be an American. Sure, there will still be bombs, hijackings, and shootings. But there's also going to be earthquakes, floods, cat 5 hurricanes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters that take lives. There's gonna be car accidents, and gas line explosions, and house fires, and heart attacks, and cancer, and accidental overdoses, and drownings, and all other manner of death.
So ask yourself if it's worth the headache.
Posted by: CanadianThinker at June 12, 2006 12:53 AM (kl/Lw)
Posted by: pual at June 12, 2006 03:32 PM (c7ncZ)
This is Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. I have come back from the dead to tell you that Allah has run out of virgins. Instead, you will all have to screw your own mothers after you die as martyrs. I personally have chosen to screw my mother's rear end for all eternity here in heaven. Allah bless you and curse the American Satan!!!
Yours truly,
Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi
Posted by: Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi at June 13, 2006 02:15 PM (jmn+D)
In closing, let me say that for what ever reason we are still there, I may not support the reasons, but none the less, I support the troops. They are doing the job they are there for. I support the civilians that are there supporting the troops and wish them Godspeed. I also support the Iraqi nation and hope that after this is all done, they find democracy in their own time in their own way. My heart goes out to all the families that have lost loved ones of ALL nations whether through military actions, accidents, health problems, or death by cowards. They have done their jobs and they are remembered by at least one.
Posted by: Takamo at July 18, 2006 12:38 AM (b0TPK)
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