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2005-11-23 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2005-11-23 09:46|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So? Release a video showing today's NYT with an obviously alive Zarq. Otherwise it's just noise...

Posted by PBMcL 2005-11-23 10:15|| 2005-11-23 10:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Keeping the boys off balance. Every communique from Zarq could be fake, could be real. Who are you going to trust?

Posted by john">john 2005-11-23 14:08|| 2005-11-23 14:08|| Front Page Top

#3 That coulda been anybody's head in the pile o' splodeydopes.

Posted by Jarong Angaviper4129 2005-11-23 15:26|| 2005-11-23 15:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Some live video footage plus sound track with Zarqawi holding today's edition of the International Hearld Tribune and talking about events occurring after the Mosul firefight is required to refute allegations of his exceptionally timely demise. All else is noise.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-23 15:28|| 2005-11-23 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's not repeat the "they must *prove* he's alive with a live video" meme which exhausted itself already with Osama bin Laden, dead at Tora Bora, and Saddam Hussein, dead two dozen times during the invasion.

If Zarqawi was dead, the jihadis would most likely be playing up his "heroic martyrdom". Right now, neither side's saying Zarqawi's dead, so it's mere wishful thinking to believe he is.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2005-11-23 16:48|| 2005-11-23 16:48|| Front Page Top

#6 But they always deny the guy's been killed/captured/carried off by demons when it occurs. See Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khattab, Abu Zubaydah, al-Muqrin, etc.

So the question remains open.

Posted by Fred">Fred 2005-11-23 17:20|| 2005-11-23 17:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Is there a possibility of a vulture circling here? Would seem we are getting close to a solution.

Posted by TomAnon 2005-11-23 21:00|| 2005-11-23 21:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I deny I am dead. I am the number one enemy of alqeda? (next to George Bush).
That's how easy it is to prove they are wrong, or I even existed.

Posted by plainslow 2005-11-23 22:29|| 2005-11-23 22:29|| Front Page Top

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