Ding Dong, Al-Zarqawi's Dead: "This Meeting Has Been Adjourned."
Breitbart has the story from Breitbart.
U.S. warplanes killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq blamed for bombings, beheadings and assassinations, and President George W. Bush said on Thursday that American forces had "delivered justice".
In one of the most significant developments in Iraq since the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Jordanian Zarqawi was killed in a bombing raid on Wednesday in a U-S.-Iraqi operation helped by tip-offs from Iraqis and Jordanian intelligence.
Vowing to fight on, al Qaeda in Iraq confirmed the death of Zarqawi, who beheaded several hostages himself and who appeared in a recent video firing a machine gun in the desert.
U.S. forces displayed at a news conference a picture of the corpse of the bearded Zarqawi with facial abrasions and his eyes closed. The air strike was carried out by two F-16 aircraft with two 500-pound (227 kg) bombs hitting the Zarqawi "safe house".
Zarqawi, in his late 30s and whom Osama bin Laden called the prince of al Qaeda in Iraq, had symbolized the radical Islamic insurgency against U.S. occupation, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he now expected insurgents to seek revenge.
"There will be fierce attempts ... with the death of Zarqawi to fight back," Blair said, adding his death would not end the killing in Iraq but that it was "significant".
Bush said the death of Zarqawi, who had a $25 million bounty on his head, was "a severe blow to al Qaeda", a victory in the war on terrorism, "and it is an opportunity for Iraq's new government to turn the tide in this struggle"...
...U.S. special operations forces confirmed Zarqawi's location based on intelligence from Iraqis and "delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq", Bush said.
"It truly was a very long, painstaking, deliberate exploitation of intelligence, information gathering, human sources, electronics, signal intelligence that was done over a period of time, many, many weeks," U.S. Major General William Caldwell said, giving details of the operation.
U.S. forces were trailing Sheikh Abdul-Rahman, Zarqawi's spiritual adviser, and that led them to a small house in a palm grove area and Zarqawi. Five others were killed in the strike.
Seventeen raids were launched on other suspected hideouts for Zarqawi associates in and around Baghdad hours after he was killed. They produced a "treasure trove" of information.
Bush was informed by national security adviser Stephen Hadley at 4:35 p.m. (2035 GMT) on Wednesday in the Oval Office that it was believed Zarqawi was dead, and Bush replied: "That would be a good thing," White House spokesman Tony Snow said. ...
This is a significant event in the war on terror, and a prediction Thomas made just a few short weeks ago when the story broke that Team 145 in Iraq (comprised of Marine Force Recon, US Navy SEALs, and Army Delta Force) had come close twice to getting him. But we sent in two five hundred pound bombs to send him to Allah, and our troops pulled his body from the rubble.
I cannot say I am not happy about this. I am very happy. And I am not shedding a single tear over his death. No one should. I know it is very "un-Christian" to feel this way, but why should we feel sorry for this animal's passing? This man was a monster. His cruelty alone was a detriment to al-Qaeda's operations in Iraq, as Ayman al-Zawahiri stated late last year, condemning his beheadings.
In addition to killing him and seven others (as yet unidentified) in that bombing raid, the information we have found will be invaluable. Depending on what is found, decoded, and unlocked (depending, of course, of the technological level of those who were with him when he died), we may have dealt not just al-Qaeda's operations in Iraq a blow, but possibly worldwide. We knew that al-Zarqawi was in regular contact with al-Qaeda's leadership. Al-Zawahiri had repeatedly contacted al-Zarqawi when it came to money, strategy, and manpower. It is a distinct possibility that al-Qaeda's chain of command and it's leaders could be compromised.
It is being stated by the military and the White House that Iraqis near Bakubah revealed this meeting that he was having in this "safe" house. Clearly, these people sold him out. That is not a bad thing. This is a good thing. They recognized that to end part of their problems they needed to help us, and they did. And we helped them with a pair of f-16 fighters, and accurate targeting. This story should also take the Haditha speculation off of the front pages.
This is a major victory for the War on Terror. We should not weep for this man's death. We should be celebrating it. And what is most important, IMO, about this victory is the insight we will gain in the intelligence we have found. Unlike our enemy recently sent to his eternal reward, we learn from what we gain in terms of information. And it is a likely scenario that said information could help us find bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and others in al-Qaeda's command structure. Furthermore, oil prices have begun to slide today. They started right after the news came out that al-Zarqawi was confirmed dead. Stocks are steady, but not reacting all too well to the news.
Marcie
Breitbart has the story from Breitbart.
U.S. warplanes killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq blamed for bombings, beheadings and assassinations, and President George W. Bush said on Thursday that American forces had "delivered justice".
In one of the most significant developments in Iraq since the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Jordanian Zarqawi was killed in a bombing raid on Wednesday in a U-S.-Iraqi operation helped by tip-offs from Iraqis and Jordanian intelligence.
Vowing to fight on, al Qaeda in Iraq confirmed the death of Zarqawi, who beheaded several hostages himself and who appeared in a recent video firing a machine gun in the desert.
U.S. forces displayed at a news conference a picture of the corpse of the bearded Zarqawi with facial abrasions and his eyes closed. The air strike was carried out by two F-16 aircraft with two 500-pound (227 kg) bombs hitting the Zarqawi "safe house".
Zarqawi, in his late 30s and whom Osama bin Laden called the prince of al Qaeda in Iraq, had symbolized the radical Islamic insurgency against U.S. occupation, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he now expected insurgents to seek revenge.
"There will be fierce attempts ... with the death of Zarqawi to fight back," Blair said, adding his death would not end the killing in Iraq but that it was "significant".
Bush said the death of Zarqawi, who had a $25 million bounty on his head, was "a severe blow to al Qaeda", a victory in the war on terrorism, "and it is an opportunity for Iraq's new government to turn the tide in this struggle"...
...U.S. special operations forces confirmed Zarqawi's location based on intelligence from Iraqis and "delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq", Bush said.
"It truly was a very long, painstaking, deliberate exploitation of intelligence, information gathering, human sources, electronics, signal intelligence that was done over a period of time, many, many weeks," U.S. Major General William Caldwell said, giving details of the operation.
U.S. forces were trailing Sheikh Abdul-Rahman, Zarqawi's spiritual adviser, and that led them to a small house in a palm grove area and Zarqawi. Five others were killed in the strike.
Seventeen raids were launched on other suspected hideouts for Zarqawi associates in and around Baghdad hours after he was killed. They produced a "treasure trove" of information.
Bush was informed by national security adviser Stephen Hadley at 4:35 p.m. (2035 GMT) on Wednesday in the Oval Office that it was believed Zarqawi was dead, and Bush replied: "That would be a good thing," White House spokesman Tony Snow said. ...
This is a significant event in the war on terror, and a prediction Thomas made just a few short weeks ago when the story broke that Team 145 in Iraq (comprised of Marine Force Recon, US Navy SEALs, and Army Delta Force) had come close twice to getting him. But we sent in two five hundred pound bombs to send him to Allah, and our troops pulled his body from the rubble.
I cannot say I am not happy about this. I am very happy. And I am not shedding a single tear over his death. No one should. I know it is very "un-Christian" to feel this way, but why should we feel sorry for this animal's passing? This man was a monster. His cruelty alone was a detriment to al-Qaeda's operations in Iraq, as Ayman al-Zawahiri stated late last year, condemning his beheadings.
In addition to killing him and seven others (as yet unidentified) in that bombing raid, the information we have found will be invaluable. Depending on what is found, decoded, and unlocked (depending, of course, of the technological level of those who were with him when he died), we may have dealt not just al-Qaeda's operations in Iraq a blow, but possibly worldwide. We knew that al-Zarqawi was in regular contact with al-Qaeda's leadership. Al-Zawahiri had repeatedly contacted al-Zarqawi when it came to money, strategy, and manpower. It is a distinct possibility that al-Qaeda's chain of command and it's leaders could be compromised.
It is being stated by the military and the White House that Iraqis near Bakubah revealed this meeting that he was having in this "safe" house. Clearly, these people sold him out. That is not a bad thing. This is a good thing. They recognized that to end part of their problems they needed to help us, and they did. And we helped them with a pair of f-16 fighters, and accurate targeting. This story should also take the Haditha speculation off of the front pages.
This is a major victory for the War on Terror. We should not weep for this man's death. We should be celebrating it. And what is most important, IMO, about this victory is the insight we will gain in the intelligence we have found. Unlike our enemy recently sent to his eternal reward, we learn from what we gain in terms of information. And it is a likely scenario that said information could help us find bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and others in al-Qaeda's command structure. Furthermore, oil prices have begun to slide today. They started right after the news came out that al-Zarqawi was confirmed dead. Stocks are steady, but not reacting all too well to the news.
Marcie
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