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Witness Says U.S. Troops Beat Al-Zarqawi After Bombing
 An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene after an airstrike that led to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi told Associated Press Television News that he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al-Qaida leader. The witness said he saw the man lying on the ground, badly wounded but still alive. He said U.S. troops arriving on the scene wrapped the man's head in an Arab robe and began beating him.
His account cannot be independently verified.
| Won't be, either. Certainly doesn't jibe with the other accounts we've seen... |
| Perhaps they were trying CPR as he bled out? That could surely look like a beating to an ignorant passerby...or to a canary paid by the other side to spread disinformation. |
Posted by: Fred 2006-06-11 |
