| Oh. Well. It was all wasted effort then, wasn't it? Never mind... |
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose supporters had allegedly made Fallujah their base, and a militant cleric who was one of his top aides have escaped the US-led offensive on the city, Iraq's secretary of state for national security, Qassem Daoud, has said. "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Abdullah Junabi have fled, leaving their supporters to taste death," he said.
| "We are outta here! Feet, don't fail us now!" |
US and Iraqi officials claimed that Zarqawi was holed-up in Fallujah and had given residents an ultimatum to hand him over or face attack.
| They didn't, and we did... |
Sunni clerics in the city repeatedly denied Zarqawi was in Fallujah.
US and Iraqi officials provided no evidence that Zarqawi, who has a $US25 million bounty on his head, was in Fallujah.
| So that means he wasn't there, right? |
US forces launched numerous "precision" air strikes on targets in the city near Baghdad and claimed to have killed many Zarqawi associates before the all out assault on the city.
| They never claimed to have killed him, though... |
A rebel spokesman told Arab television station Al-Jazeera on Saturday that US forces were in an impasse in Fallujah, and denied the offensive had succeeded. "The announcement of the end of the military offensive is proof that American forces are in an impasse, the American criminals and the Iraqi apostates have suffered more than 150 killed and more than 270 wounded," said Abu Saad al-Dlimi.
| We're all dead. Finished. Washed up. Our stomaches are roasting in hell. |
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