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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:22 AM
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'Highly Unlikely' Al-Zarqawi dead. Now that the AM shows have speculated.
Edited on Mon Nov-21-05 09:38 AM by spanone
I spent the morning listening to all the 'WHAT IF' news about Al-Zarqawi 'possible' death. Now I get to work and the new headline is 'Highly Unlikely' Al-Zarqawi dead. Is this fucking NEWS???
No it's propaganda so that the morning shows will ease off the asshole in the white house and have some speculative news that they can guess about and be glib about: the death of an enemy. Boy, this administration plays the press like a fine violin. It's absolutely sickening how the media plays along.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:31 AM
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1. Bettter to keep the Boogey-Man alive
As soon as I heard the "news" he may be dead, I figured it wouldn't be long till that status was changed. If it were definite, it would have been BREAKING NEWS on every channel with Bush coming on to announce it (subliminal banner backdrop complimentary).
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:36 AM
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2. Decisions, Decisions...
Kill the old Goldstein and spend all that money promoting a new boogie man..

Retread the old boogie man and add to his legendary, but becoming unbelievable, status...

:think:
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:37 AM
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3. Yep, we almost got him again! For the hundredth time!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:39 AM
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4. On the living again and Zarqawi
Some Evidence Suggests Saddam Dead: Bush
Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, April 25, 2003
http://english.people.com.cn/200304/25/eng20030425_115783.shtml
US President Bush said in a television interview Thursday that there is some evidence suggesting Saddam Hussein is either dead or "at the very minimum was severely wounded." Bush also said US troops would remain in Iraq "as long as necessary."

DNA tests after missiles strike 'Saddam convoy'
Sunday June 22, 2003
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,982710,00.html
American specialists were carrying out DNA tests last night on human remains believed by US military sources to be those of Saddam Hussein and one of his sons, The Observer can reveal.

Officials suspect Saddam was killed in bombing
Posted 4/10/2003
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-04-10-saddam-usat_x.htm
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence has no clear information on Saddam Hussein's whereabouts, but the betting in the Pentagon's executive offices is that the Iraqi dictator lies dead under a pile of rubble in Baghdad, according to defense and intelligence officials.

But the theory given most credence is that Saddam died in Monday's bomber attack on a home near a Baghdad restaurant.
"The official take from the Pentagon is that Saddam is 'unfound,' " a senior defense intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. "Most along the E-Ring (the Pentagon's outermost hallway and executive suite) think he's under the rubble."
A Defense Department intelligence official said an abrupt end to an electronic intelligence intercept of Iraqi leadership conversations indicated that Saddam and his sons were at the site at the time of the bombing.
"The signal died when the bombs hit," the official said.

Saddam Captured 'Like a Rat' in Raid
Sunday, December 14, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105706,00.html

Saddam Hussein arrested in Iraq
Sunday, 14 December, 2003, 17:04 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3317429.stm
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Pentagon: 'Chemical Ali' Killed in Attack
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/7/204930.shtml

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon believes "Chemical Ali," Saddam Hussein's cousin who ordered a chemical attack on Kurds in northern Iraq in 1988, is dead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Monday.

'Chemical Ali' reported dead
Monday, 7 April, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2925375.stm


Officials: Body of 'Chemical Ali' Found in Basra
Monday, April 07, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83383,00.html


'Chemical Ali' Captured in Iraq
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95314,00.html


'Chemical Ali' in U.S. custody
Thursday, August 21, 2003
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/08/21/sprj.irq.chemical.ali/
DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali," is in U.S. custody, military officials tell CNN.
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Zarqawi Eclipsing Bin Laden in Prominence
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119700,00.html
In 1999, after being released from jail in Jordan, Zarqawi formed an alliance with bin Laden allowing Zarqawi to operate a training camp in Afghanistan for Arab fighters committed to the overthrow of Jordan's moderate monarchy.
During the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Zarqawi is believed to have been badly wounded in a U.S. airstrike and fled to Iran. Later, he ended up in Baghdad, where Saddam's regime allowed him to recuperate for several months after having his leg amputated.

But check out how CNN spins itself into the ground trying to cover for Bush five weeks earlier
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/06/us.zarqawi/
A U.S. official said Tuesday that al-Zarqawi traveled to Baghdad in May 2002 for treatment of a leg injury but, contrary to previous reports, appears not to have had a leg amputated. The official would not discuss the reason for the change in assessment.
Al-Zarqawi, an associate of Osama bin Laden, had been named by the Bush administration as an al Qaeda member who fled to Iraq from Afghanistan in May 2002 for medical treatment and then stayed to organize terror plots. He came to Iraq with about two dozen al Qaeda terrorists, according to the administration.
Before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell and other administration officials pointed to intelligence that they said suggested al-Zarqawi had had his leg amputated in Baghdad.

Unfortunately a YEAR before that report CNN said:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/29/sprj.irq.terrorist.capture/index.html
Zarqawi was said to have received medical treatment in Baghdad in May and June of 2002 after being wounded in Afghanistan during the war. His leg was amputated, U.S. officials say, by a surgeon in Iraq.


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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:40 AM
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6. Some post, thanks.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:45 AM
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8. From My Documents
I posted one half of it all the time but on special occassions like this it all seems to fit.

Yeah it is odd to look back out how out of control the stories coming out of Centcom, the Pentagon, and the White House were and this clearly doesn't even cover the "ghost fleet" and Pvt.Lynch
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:39 AM
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5. Keyzer Soze!
:eyes:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:42 AM
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7. he`s kenny---
they kill him off every week!
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-21-05 09:48 AM
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9. Twice a week when the polls are slipping.
:banghead:
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