U.S. 'just missed' capturing AbOO Musab al-Zarqawi

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10107233/

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces "just missed" capturing terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a gunfight over the weekend in the northern city of Mosul, U.S. military sources told NBC News on Monday.

The military had intelligence that indicated al-Zarqawi was meeting with high-level Iraq in al-Qaida lieutenants, a Pentagon source said.

As soldiers closed in on the site, there was an exchange of small arms fire, then it appears the three al-Qaida suspects blew themselves up to avoid capture.

The military is conducting DNA tests on flesh and blood recovered from the scene, but a Pentagon official said indications are that al-Zarqawi is not among those killed.

"The information was solid. We just missed him," said one Pentagon source.

[ewagner]

1. Insert

Maxwell Smart jokes here....

I'll start:

"....missed it by that much"

[tk2kewl]

3. would you believe we got his number 2 man?

:shrug:

[ewagner]

11. No? Then would you believe

(we got)somebody who went to high school in the same country as Zawquawi?

[madmom]

6. that's exactly what I thought lol.....n/t

[spindrifter]

2. Yeah, just like I just missed winning the lottery.

[BR_Parkway]

4. Does the US have Zarqawi's DNA? How and why would they have this?

[Dr. Death]

5. Let me guess...we nabbed another #3 man though, right?

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. It's double-plus good to keep the Boogey-Man alive. n/t

[Inland]

8. As opposed to before the invasion, when they intentionally let him go.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/

[ugarte]

9. Wow, it's almoooost like somebody's tipping the guy off every time

just before a raid. I wonder who.

[mopaul]

10. he is one slippery little batman bad guy

[Catrina]

12. *lol* ~ I believe in Santa Clause also

What utter nonsense. Every time I see a military guy on TV after a talking head asks him about Al Zarqawi, they look so embarrassed repeating the fairy tale of how nobody became so powerful, and is responsible for everything that is happening over there.

Maybe this is why they always look so embarrassed:

How US fuelled myth of Zarqawi the mastermind


Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist leader believed to be responsible for the abduction of Kenneth Bigley, is 'more myth than man', according to American military intelligence agents in Iraq.

.......

"We were basically paying up to $10,000 a time to opportunists, criminals and chancers who passed off fiction and supposition about Zarqawi as cast-iron fact, making him out as the linchpin of just about every attack in Iraq," the agent said.

"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/04/wirq04.xml"

There is simply no end to the lies they tell ~

[Cults4Bush]

13. If Zarqawi is real and we do "get" him. If anyone believes that some

other wont take his place either as false flag or the real deal then they will be as wrong as acid rain.