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Iraq
Witness Says U.S. Troops Beat Al-Zarqawi After Bombing
2006-06-11
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.
Then his lips fell off.
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

#25  Even the Leftperts this weekend had to admit that Zark would at minima been severely wounded iff not blown to smithereenies/atomized, wid the latter more realistic given the substandard house that appears to had been the target - read, MORE BOOM-BOOM THAN SAFE BRICK.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-06-11 23:11  

#24  Zarqawi was also in mid-goat rape but you don't see that reported. In repect of the relgion of puss of course.
Posted by: porKoranimals   2006-06-11 21:49  

#23  My sympathy meter broke but it doesn't make any difference.
Posted by: JohntheElder   2006-06-11 17:54  

#22  They can always, always find an unnamed Arab to say anything outrageous. A society ruled by fantastic, loony rumor-mongering.
Posted by: Brett   2006-06-11 16:30  

#21  Speaking of AP shenanigans, our local fishwrap published an AP article about "500 deaths" in Afghanistan in the last month. Nowhere in the article does it explain that 400+ of those were Taliban. Lying by omission is still lying.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-06-11 16:13  

#20  Capt Ed takes this apart...
Posted by: Frank G   2006-06-11 13:37  

#19  I'm calling shenannigans.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-06-11 13:04  

#18  Geez I would hope so. Beat him. Resuscitate him. Beat him. Resuscitate. Repeat ad nauseam.

Me too. From Frank Herbrt's Dune "Yueh, Yueh, Yueh. A million deaths are not enough for Yueh"
Posted by: JFM   2006-06-11 11:50  

#17  ok if 2 hellaish bombs just hit somewhere would you run too that site in the first place?
Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163   2006-06-11 11:45  

#16  My understanding is that this was a remote farmhouse in the middle of an orchard of some kind. If this guy got there before the Iraqi police, I'd be inclined to haul him off to Gitmo for some long, long discussions. And no, I don't care whether the Zman was finally terminated by 1,000 lbs of explosives or a beating with the debris. Sharia sanctions stoning for bad behavior anyway.
Posted by: Darrell   2006-06-11 10:29  

#15  There's abolutely nothing verifiable in this story--it is pure Associated Press BS--a waste of space.
Posted by: Rasputin   2006-06-11 10:04  

#14  The overpressure would eventually kill him anyway. However, you'd have to understand what overpressure was and that is another example of the mind dead MSM. Feelings more important than facts.
Posted by: Omins Ebbereth3699   2006-06-11 08:46  

#13  I wish this were true, and I wish I was there doing it.
Posted by: Captain America   2006-06-11 08:09  

#12  I doubt any civilain was allowed within 1000 Yards of the site and anyone trying to get there would have been detained and questioned very vigorously. But stuff like this makes no sense to a "journalist"
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-06-11 07:45  

#11  watch out for the socialist governments in Europe they don't like when terrorist are beaten...
Posted by: Fleling Floling1040   2006-06-11 06:37  

#10  Fred, I think the Rantburg Sympathy Meter is in order here...
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2006-06-11 03:40  

#9  As expected as the sun setting in the west, the New York Times carries this lie...and one thought it hard to top Goebbels "Der Angriff"...
Posted by: borgboy   2006-06-11 03:18  

#8  Who wouldnt lay in the boot once or twice , he was a monster and deserved nothing less .

(Well , in fact he deserved a whole lot more but thats a different story)
Posted by: MacNails   2006-06-11 02:48  

#7  Golly tu, we're going to have to get your sympathy meter recalibrated. Step this way ...
Posted by: Steve White   2006-06-11 01:00  

#6  Is this supposed to bother me, because it doesn't...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-06-11 00:49  

#5  Witness Says U.S. Troops Beat Al-Zarqawi After Bombing

Geez I would hope so. Beat him. Resuscitate him. Beat him. Resuscitate. Repeat ad nauseam.
Posted by: Uninelet Cheth1495   2006-06-11 00:28  

#4  Mumra to accuse our men of 'war crimes' in 5... 4.. 3..
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-06-11 00:28  

#3  No story coming out of Arabia would be complete without some totally insane, not to mention irrelevant, Arab shit layered on top.
Posted by: flyover   2006-06-11 00:19  

#2  He was 1 of the 1st on the scene???

Before the Iraqi army got there?
Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-06-11 00:14  

#1  Did he say why Zarkboy wasn't wearing the sucide vest he promised to wear when US troops were around?

Ya, know like Zarkboy lied and then died.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-06-11 00:05  

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