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Zarqawi died with a mumble
| Personally, I think it's wonderful that he survived the blast, to die in pain. Only think better would have been a lingering death by sepsis. |
| From a sucking chest wound ... |
 Master terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi mumbled a few words as he lay mortally wounded on a stretcher amid the rubble of his bombed-out meeting place, made a feeble attempt to get up and then died surrounded by U.S. Army soldiers.
The military gave this updated account yesterday of the final moments of Osama bin Laden's anointed "Prince of al Qaeda in Iraq" after first reporting that Zarqawi died instantly from the blunt force of two 500-pound bombs.
| Instantly would have been okay, but shortly thereafter, in pain, is much better... |
The twin blasts at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday destroyed the house near Baqouba, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad, where the Sunni Muslim was meeting to plan more of the suicide bombings that have killed hundreds of innocent Iraqis, mostly Shi'ites, in an attempt to spark a civil war. Killed Wednesday, in addition to Zarqawi, were his spiritual leader, Sheik Abdel Rahman, who unwittingly led trackers to the safe house, and four others, including three women. The military has not identified the four.
| No children? No puppies? No kittens? No baby ducks? Not even a fluffy bunny or two? |
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, briefing Pentagon reporters via a teleconference from Baghdad, said there is no indication Zarqawi was shot or harmed by Iraqi police or by U.S. soldiers. Zarqawi may have escaped instant death because he was outside the building or in a concrete-protected area that did not take a direct hit.
| "Curly-toed slippers, don't fail me Aaaaaiiiiieee!" |
Gen. Caldwell gave this account: "Zarqawi in fact did survive the air strike. ... The first people on the scene were the Iraqi police. They had found him and put him into some kind of gurney stretcher kind of thing, and then American -- coalition -- forces arrived immediately thereafter on site. They immediately went to the person in the stretcher, were able to start to identify him by some distinguishing marks on his body. They had some kind of visual facial recognition. ... Zarqawi attempted to sort of turn away off the stretcher. Everybody resecured him back onto the stretcher, but he died almost immediately thereafter from the wounds he had received from the air strike. ... He mumbled a little something, but it was indistinguishable and it was very short." Troops moved Zarqawi's body to a morgue, where his face was cleansed of blood so it could be photographed and the picture presented to the public as proof that the second-most-wanted man in the world, next to bin Laden, was dead.
Posted by: Fred 2006-06-11 |
