So Zarqawi is dead. Good riddance. To all the skeptics out there, it seems that Zarqawi wasn’t a "US invention" or a "creation by Jordanian intelligence" after all! What will the conspiracy theorists say now? "We need proof!" "We want to see the corpse." [There’s now pictorial evidence] Frankly, I would have preferred seeing him captured and then put to justice so that everyone could see how sinister this man was and that he really existed, inflicting terror upon millions and millions of people.
David Igantius wrote in the Washington Post in November of last year that Jordan was determined to capture or kill Zarqawi following the terrorist attacks on the kingdom.
A senior official told me that Jordan is considering aggressive new anti-terrorism operations that will seek to capture or kill Abu Musab Zarqawi and his top lieutenants. When I asked King Abdullah about the campaign, he explained, "Zarqawi brought the war to our doorstep, and there’s a feeling in Jordan that we’d like to bring him to justice."
Well, they were true to their word as:
A Jordanian official said Jordan also provided the U.S. military with information that helped in tracking al-Zarqawi down. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was addressing intelligence issues, would not elaborate, but Jordan is known to have intelligence agents operating in Iraq to hunt down Islamic militants. Source: [MSNBC]
Today is a good day for humankind!
Update: Zarqawi’s relatives are now calling him a martyr. Yeah, whatever! I hope he enjoys a prime place in hell as a slave to the devil himself. What’s wrong with these people, really! Were they not the very same ones who declared that they disowned him following the terror attacks in Jordan last November.
Update 2: According to Aljazeera (Arabic), Al-Qaeda in Iraq has confirmed Zarqawi’s death.
um to whoever that said that israel did worse crimes than the al qaeda did. that doesn’t make any sense.
and who are you to judge whos worse?
any thing that is wrong is wrong.
“Israel itself is committing crimes worse than what al qaeda did with the whole world watching.”
Name two.
I know you are going to post about it, but how does it feel that three of the deputies in the Jordan Parliament, have visited the Zarqawi family in Zarka-Jordan to show support and express condolences ! How bout the poll carried out by Al-Jazeera that shows more than 70% of those expressing their opinion about the death of Zarkawi that they are sad !
Scooby, I think arresting Yasser Abu Hilah was a mistake. The Jordanian government should stop its policy of intimidating journalists. I’m totally against muzzling the press.
So what’s the latest news? I have been busy with friends visiting form out of town so I have not been following the news. Is he still arrested? Please let me know. And yeah I worked for Aljazeera for a while when we were based in Doha.
JAson, Israel is the biggest “undeclared” terrorist. Zarqawi’s death put an end to one terrorist but Israel itself is committing crimes worse than what al qaeda did with the whole world watching.
As the world turns:
Once again as all eyes are focused on the death of Zarqawi, Israel strikes killing innocent women and children in Gaza while having a picnic at the beach. Isn’t this terrorism?
Now ofcourse the idiots Hamas declared and end to the cease fire and they will go give Israel a chance to say here we tried to have peace with the Palestinians but how can you have peace with terrorists. But to make us feel better, Israel as usual said the strike was a mistake and they will investigate the incident.
Why isn’t this terrorism?
As the world turns
Kahgi you say ” I tend to believe that calling at least some, if not all, of Al Jazeera “journalists” is about as believable as claiming Bill O’Reilly in the US is “unbiased”.”
I think your attempt to compare ALjazeera with Bill O’Reilly is utterly absurd and shows a disturbing degree of shallowness on your part. Here is why:
When you compare O’Reilly and ALjazeera’s positions on one hand with the UN and the Geneva Conventions on the other, you will find that Aljazeera’s views are consistent with the UN and Geneva Conventions. Aljazeera says Iraq occupation is illegal, Orielly says it’s good. Aljazeera says killing innocents is bad, Orielly says collateral damage. Aljazeer says end Israeli occupation, Oreillay says jewish land and disputed territories.
So please, don’t embaress yourself with such silly arguments. ALjazeer is centrists, when you use the UN and Geneva Conventions and Universal Declaration of Human Rights as benchmarks. But the overwhelming majority of so-called mainstram US media espouse views that are right wing, pro-invasion, pro-occupation, pro-murder.
“To all the skeptics out there, it seems that Zarqawi wasn’t a “US invention” or a “creation by Jordanian intelligence” after all! What will the conspiracy theorists say now? “We need proof!” “We want to see the corpse.” ”
How does killing him prove he is not the product of the US?
-Saddam was the product of the US, he is in Jail now.
-Bin laden was the direct prodcut of the US, he’s wanted Dead or Alive.
So no, smarty pants, his death does not prove anything.
Read history.
Kagehi,
The U.S. foreign policy consistently criticized Arab media for being state-controlled and for feeding the people half-truths, at best.
It’s just funny that when one of the largest allies of the U.S. in the region (the Emir of Qatar) bank rolls a semi-independent news channel to report the news anyway they want (pissing off all Arab governments in the process), and showing the U.S. foreign policy for what it really is, then all of a sudden we don’t recognize it as a legitimate news organization, and its employees are called are called liers and “journalists” with the sarcastic quotations. I may be way off here, but wasn’t Natasha an employee of Al-Jazeera at one point? Natasha, please correct me if I am wrong about that.
If Al-Jazeera’s employees are liers and “journalists,” then so are CNN’s and Fox News’s and CBS’s (remember why Dan Rather had to “retire”).
Anyway Kagehi, the question I posed was for Natasha, so please butt out.