By Rupert Cornwell in Washington (Comments by Weazl)
Published: 13 June 2006
A new leader has been appointed to head the al-Qa'ida organisation in Iraq, in replacement of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who was killed in a US air strike last week, an Islamic militant website said yesterday (Now which website would that be?).
The website, often used by al-Qa'ida to post statements, (And why is it still up and running?) identified the new chief merely by the pseudonym of Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, a name which has not thus far featured on US lists of wanted terrorists. (Funny how they just pop up from nowhere, hunh?) Al-Muhajer means "immigrant" in Arabic, suggesting that like Zarqawi, he is not an Iraqi. (How convenient? Really will be an Iraqi favorite, I suppose)
The news came as George Bush, the US President, and his advisers began a two-day Iraq strategy session at Camp David aimed at building on last week's two big successes - the elimination of Zarqawi and completion of the new government in Baghdad (one a fraud and the other non-existent).
However, questions persisted about the exact circumstances of the death of Iraq's most wanted man, despite the finding by a US autopsy that Zarqawi had been killed by shock waves from the blast. "The cause of death was close-based primary blast injury of the lung," Steve Jones, a US military doctor, said. (Yeah, what do those stupid Iraqi eyewitnesses know!)
But that announcement will not put to rest the doubts that emerged after the Pentagon reversed course and said that Zarqawi had not been killed instantly by the two 500lb bombs that flattened his safe house last Wednesday. (But left his body intact ;-)
The US military now says that he survived for 52 minutes after the blast, and for 24 minutes after the arrival of the first US soldiers on the scene. DNA analysis has confirmed the corpse was that of Zarqawi. (Just where did we get the test samples of his DNA from? Just asking)
Meanwhile General George Casey, the top US commander in Iraq, described as "baloney" claims by an Iraqi witness that a man resembling Zarqawi had been beaten by US troops after the bombing. Other US spokesmen said his body had been treated with complete respect (for a Jordanian Iraqi Arab insurgent terrorist).
Experts say (which experts?) that if confirmed, the choice of Muhajer, a foreigner (how would this journalist know by this name that he was foreigner, especially if US had no record of him before. Does every American named Smith make horseshoes? Just asking. CIA getting dumber and dumber.), could mean he will pursue Zarqawi's efforts to foment violence outside Iraq. (Be afraid, be very afraid!) But the rest is a mystery - above all the relations between the local al-Qa'ida leadership and indigenous Iraqi insurgents, which were said (who said?) to be tense under Zarqawi, and links between the new man and the al-Qa'ida high command of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. (Yes, maybe there will be a split in the Board of Directors of Al-Qa'ida, a proxy battle among shareholders, and the CEO, CFO and COO will all resign. Maybe not.)
Original article posted here. (and all over the AP wires)
This bullshit passes for news. Sorry.
1 comment:
Sorry, the problem with the UN is that it is unable to reel in the US.
What will change the world is when people such as yourself stop swallowing the blue pill of Rove-Mehlman mish-mash.
If the UN had any real function, Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney would be on a docket in the Hague. And they won't ever agree to any organization that would ever realize this aspiration, so your idea of how to "change the world" is about as viable as trying to use toilet paper twice.
Good thing all that fillibustering was written digitally: not a tree felled for such fallacious foolish folly. ;-)
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