U.S. May Have Found Fallujah Militant Base (Zarqawi's base)

[wicket]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20041118/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_041118153916

U.S. troops sweeping through Fallujah on Thursday said they believe they have found the main headquarters of the insurgent group headed by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

In video shot by an embedded CNN cameraman, soldiers walked through an imposing building with concrete columns and with a large sign in Arabic on the wall reading "Al Qaida Organization" and "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."

Inside the building, U.S. soldiers found documents, old computers, notebooks, photographs and copies of the Quran.

Al-Zarqawi last month renamed his group al-Qaida in Iraq, and his followers have been blamed for a number of deadly bombings and beheadings of foreign hostages, including three Americans and a Briton. The United States has offered a $25 million reward for his capture or killing — the same amount as for Osama bin Laden.

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1. There was a sign on the wall saying 'Al Queda Organization'?

Didn't it say, "Al Queda, Inc. Bomb here please." ?

That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard...

[ewagner]

6. Puuuuleeeeze......

this is too corny ......

[tk2kewl]

42. Just follow the sign...

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*  Axis of Evil Outpost   * 
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[Ripley]

7. But hey they found a copy of a Quran..

You know those are so rare in Iraq. :eyes:

Why does the stupid liberal media keep printing these Onionesque stories? I mean really now...how many times have they had OBL cornered. In China no less.

[0007]

19. I'd like to know about all those computers they found and all that

information. Even the caves had a shit load of computers

[daleo]

21. And some notebooks

And "some documents". And some old computers. I am glad they didn't look in my basement, if that's all it takes.

Wait a few days, and find out what wonders will turn up in these old computers.

I love the "Al-Queda Headquarters" banner. I wonder if it is a registered trademark of the BFEE.

[colonel odis]

38. bin laden's not in china. he's at a krispy kreme with elvis.

and the bush administration has about as much chance of capturing either.

[Ripley]

43. Actually I thought he was in the Library with Miss Scarlett.

But I could be wrong.

[MidwestTransplant]

10. There was a giant bullseye on the roof too.

[ET Awful]

14. That was my first thought too, I read that and went no further.

What a load of hooey.

[auburngrad82]

29. If I were a terrorist org the FIRST thing I would do is hang a sign

advertising the fact. This story is a load of shit.

I don't believe that there is a "Zarqawi" leading the fight. It's just the Bush administration's efforts to put an evil face on the war.

There is an evil face. It's Dubya's and middle easterners hate it.

[fryguy]

34. US Arabic translators are so bad

for all we know the sign might actually read "Red Crescent Headquarters"

[Roland99]

35. OMFGLMFAOWTFBBQ!!!!

:wtf:

[pinniped]

49. LOL!...did they check their answering machine?

Hi, you have reached the answering service of the Al Qaeda Organization. If you know the extension of the terrorist you are calling, you may enter it now. If you need further assistance, please press asterik or stay on the line for a live operator.:silly:

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

54. ROFLMAO!!

PLEASE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT ME? lol

[hatrack]

2. Yes, terrorists are famous for "branding" the HQ with the company logo . .

Wow, they found computers, photographs, notebooks and copies of the Quran. Sounds like they just discovered a dormitory at Baghdad University.

[Pig_Latin_Lover]

20. Like Cobra!

Coooobraaaaa!

[vision]

46. "Now you know and knowing is half the battle!"

Go! Joe!

[alittlelark]

3. A sign on the wall reading "Al Qaida Organization"

in Arabic!!!???

OMG - do they believe we, or THEY are soooooo stupd?

[ilovenicepeople]

40. I don't like getting flamed but we are stupid enough to get to this point.

oh and I forgot complacent.

[Gyre]

52. Did they have scrawled in red ink

"Die yankee chimperialistic bush lackey dogs, die!" over the mantle? Goddamn, that's my house!!! :)

Gyre

[atreides1]

4. A Large Sign???

Give me a break.

[lovedems]

5. A big sign that said "Al Qaida Organization"?

Kind of like "Eat at Joe's"?

Would they advertise like that? I know they had "control" over the city but that seems kind of like pentagon progaganda if you ask me.

[progressivebydesign]

8. I was right there into the story until I read the thing about the sign..

"building with concrete columns and with a large sign in Arabic on the wall reading "Al Qaida Organization" and "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."

Uh yah. I'm CERTAIN that they put the name of their group on the wall. That's probably how most super secretive terrorist organizations operatem, I'm sure. Are they listed in the Fallujah yellow pages, as well??

Is that guy working for our shadow government? No one could be that obvious... Do y'all smell a photo op?

[tk2kewl]

9. do you really think they'd have a sign reading

"Al Qaida Headquarters"? Maybe right next to the "Axis of Evil Outpost" sign.

[alittlelark]

11. LOL !!

[hatrack]

12. Was there an Al Qaeda gift shop, too?

WTC explosion postcards, ashtrays and keychains with Osama's face on them, Infidel Expulsion pistachio brittle - the possibilities are limitless.

[auburngrad82]

ROFLMAO! I want a Al-Qaeda "grenade" cigarette lighter!

Or a t-shirt that says "Where's Osama?"

If anyone shops there, pick one up for me.

Pretty please...

[maddezmom]

13. reminds me of Tora Bora....and guess what HE AIN"T THERE???

but the military will push this as a big success....yippeeee

[maddezmom]

39. flip-flopper Sattler: says Zarqawi's Fallujah headquarter NOT FOUND

Marine commander says Zarqawi's Fallujah headquarters not yet located
http://www.wfls.com/News/FLS/2004/112004/11182004/1100805729

[bowens43]

15. LOL! This like something from The Onion

Large sign on the wall saying "Al Qaida Organization" ?!? They have got to be kidding.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

16. Maybe on the Superfriends

but not in reality

Level 16 of Falluja: the Videogame--destroy the Secret Base!

[eleny]

17. And there was an SUV with Texas plates there, too (per CNN)

Why do I find this funny?!

[Laughing Mirror]

64. A Ford Explorer with Texas license plates

Traceable back to whom, to what organization or front group, we must wonder, if in fact they were no more than props.

It is bewildering and stupefying all the subplots and intrigues of this absurd and criminal war.

[Ducks In A Row]

18. they found a pile of home-made t-shirt reading....

"bush invaded and occupied my country and all I got was this t-shirt"

[canadianbeaver]

22. LMFAO

Funny!!!

[hatrack]

23. Either that, or a big pointing hand saying "I'm with psychopathic!"

nt

[auburngrad82]

32. I want one!!!

[pk_du]

24. CNN ( who supposedly filmed this find)

have much more low-key take on this "find"

Raid uncovers terrorist safe house
During recent house-to-house raids in southeast Falluja, U.S. and Iraqi forces uncovered what appeared to be an abandoned safe house used by insurgents loyal to both al Qaeda and wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

There were two letters inside the house, one from al-Zarqawi giving instructions to two of his lieutenants in the region. Another sought money and help from the terrorist leader.

It is believed that the two lieutenants mentioned in the two letters lived in the house the troops found. It is unclear whether they escaped the violence or were killed in recent battles.

Symbols pledging loyalty to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network also adorned the walls of the house. Dead fighters still lay outside the house, where bombs pounded the area in recent weeks.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/18/iraq.main/index.html

[donkeyotay]

25. This is sloppy work, boys.

"Inside the building, U.S. soldiers found documents, old computers, notebooks, photographs and copies of the Quran."

Let me help you out here:

Inside the large concrete building, our brave soldiers found three stacks of documents (including floor plans and layouts to elementary schools), a half-dozen laptop computers, a handful of notebooks scrawled with graffiti such as "Jesus was gay," photographs of naked children and 13 copies of the Quran in a building that sounded suspiciously like a mosque!

Pleeze people. Remember that details build credibility. Ask Powell.

[digitaldog]

26. they steal texas surburbans too!

they indeed are devils, or at least the devil is in the details.

[Qutzupalotl]

27. There's video.

I don't know if the sign was visible from the outside or not--my guess is not. Probably just a piece of paper on the wall. At any rate, I'm sure it was for internal consumption.

And there's VIDEO. So unless the Army/CIA/whoever manufactured the sign and structure in a war zone, I'm inclined to believe it.

[maddezmom]

31. when they catch him...hobbling along with his one leg

then it's news.

[oblivious]

47. I'm inclined to believe it too.

And I have no doubt it will turn out to be a large flashing neon sign as well. I look forward to seeing the video indeed.

[Democracy Died 2004]

28. HAHAHAHA Just like a bad cartoon

with a funny sign saying "Bad guys hideout"

[musette_sf]

44. and "No Grils Aloud"

[Scurrilous]

30. ..a large sign in Arabic on the wall reading "Al Qaida Organization"

...I bet the paint was still wet.

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[fryguy]

33. sign on the wall?

might as well have been a bull's-eye on the roof then....anyone else smell something fishy in this?

[wicket]

41. very fishy

:kick:

[MRDU]

36. Snip from the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59519-2004Nov18.html

A mural in the house indicated that it belonged to the al Qaeda organization. In the house, the soldiers found letters reportedly written by Zarqawi to his lieutenants, medical supplies from the U.S. Agency for International Development and boxes of ammunition from the Chinese and Jordanian armies and nearby they discovered medical supplies from the International Red Cross. <snip>

Soldiers also found Bush and Sharon voodoo dolls, Howard Dean's phone number, 20,000 Florida absentee ballots, several Farmer's Almanacs, A 45 copy of the Beach Boys "I Get Around", various Moveon.org stickers and a few books, among them: "Death Won't Stop Me" (Jihad From Beyond the Grave) by OBL, "How to Bomb-proof Letters and Passports" by M.Atta and "Syria on Five Dinars a Day" Author Unknown. <sarcasm>

[Rush1184]

61. They found Moveon.org stickers and Howard Deans number there?

Hmmmm... so they are trying to say that they are linked to Dem. organizations and formor presidental canidates? Seems a little too connected to the republican stance that terrorists want the democrats in pover.

[Nicholas_J]

37. I guess the picture

of Uncle oSAMa on the wall with "Allah wants you" in bold arabic script on it might have been a dead giveaway.

[wicket]

45. kick

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[MileHiStealth]

48. Actually the translation of the sign was ...

Mission Accomplished

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53. It's easy when you don't actually exist

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[NickB79]

60. Until he loses the other leg

Then he's gonna learn to walk on his hands.

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[txindy]

56. Contact Bill O'Reilly for the falafel. Some loofahs, too. He's your boy.

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[htuttle]

57. Don't be an idiot

I smell BACON!

[wicket]

62. kick

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[Politicub]

63. I don't believe any of the news coming out of ths administration

It is all timed to look like some valiant tale of heroism. Well, I'm not buying it and I hope others will open their eyes, too.

I don't even recognize my country anymore. All of this evil that is being perpetrated in our name is horendous. It's such a shame that the US has falled to this new low.

And not a fucking peep from the democratic leadership.

[jpgray]

65. Look--Snowball's tracks are all around here.

Jesus Christ this is pathetic.