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U.S. warns Iraq's neighbors not to treat Zarqawi
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday warned Iraq's neighbors not to provide medical care to al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who the Pentagon believes has been wounded. "The current assumption is that he's in Iraq. Were a neighboring country to take him in and provide medical assistance or haven for him, they, obviously, would be associating themselves with a major linkage in the al Qaeda network and a person who has a great deal of blood on his hands," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon briefing.
"They would be 'un-helpful"

Rumsfeld was not specific about the possible consequences for a country that provided medical care for the Jordanian-born extremist, who has been accused of masterminding a spree of suicide bombings, ambushes and assassinations in Iraq.
But we can guess it wouldn't be pretty. Unless you enjoy that sort of thing, like we do here.
Iraq borders Syria, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
My money is on Syria, with Saudi a close second. Iran is too far away and Jordan has a noose with his name on it.
Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that "our assessment is that he has been wounded" but said he did not know how severely. "The best guess is that he was injured out in western Iraq near the Syrian border. And we believe it, because the postings on the Web site, on their Web pages, seem to be consistent with other things we've seen that were true," Myers told the briefing.
A U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday that an audio recording that surfaced on Monday in which Zarqawi denied he was seriously wounded was authentic. The tape followed Internet postings by the al Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq saying Zarqawi had been wounded but was in good health and back leading operations in Iraq.
The Sunday Times of London reported that Zarqawi had shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran. The newspaper said he was wounded three weeks ago when a U.S. missile hit his convoy near the western Iraqi town of Qaim near the Syrian border, and that his supporters might try to move him to another country for an operation.
The U.S. military in recent weeks has conducted several operations in western Iraq against the insurgency, a mix of indigenous Sunni Muslim Arabs and foreign radical Islamic fighters like Zarqawi.
Posted by: Steve 2005-06-01
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