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Statement Claims Al-Zarqawi Dead
A Jordanian extremist suspected of bloody suicide attacks in Iraq was killed some time ago in U.S. bombing and a letter outlining plans for fomenting sectarian war is a forgery, a statement allegedly from an insurgent group west of the capital said. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq "during the American bombing there," according to a statement circulated in Fallujah this week and signed by the "Leadership of the Allahu Akbar Mujahedeen." "He couldnât have done it, heâs dead. Honest!" There was no way to verify the authenticity of the statement, one of many leaflets put out by a variety of groups taking part in the anti-U.S. resistance. Sounds like heâs feeling a lot of heat The statement did not say when al-Zarqawi was supposedly killed, but U.S. jets bombed strongholds of the extremist Ansar al-Islam in the north last April as Saddam Husseinâs regime was collapsing. It said al-Zarqawi was unable to escape the bombing because of his artificial leg. I knew he had been wounded in the leg and had to recover in a Iraqi hospital, didnât know he had lost it. The statement said the "fabricated al-Zarqawi memo" has been used by the U.S.-run coalition "to back up their theory of a civil war" in Iraq. The more they deny it, the more it must be true "The truth is, al-Qaida is not present in Iraq," the Mujahedeen statement said. Though many Arabs entered the country to fight U.S. troops, only a small number remain, the group said. Killed that many of them, did we? Posted by: Steve 2004-03-04 |
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