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Iraq-Jordan
Zarqawi is dead, claims Baghdad imam
2005-09-17
Be still my beating heart.
PARIS - Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, is dead but Washington continues to use him as a bogeyman to justify a prolonged military occupation, an Iraqi Shia cleric said in an interview published here on Friday.

Sheikh Jawad Al Kalesi, the imam of the al-Kazemiya mosque in Baghdad, told Le Monde newspaper: “I don’t think that Abu Musab Al Zarqawi exists as such. He’s simply an invention by the occupiers to divide the people.”

Kalesi claimed that Zarqawi was killed in the Kurdish northern region of Iraq at the beginning of the US-led war on the country as he was meeting with members of the Ansar Al-Islam group affiliated to Al Qaeda. “His family in Jordan even held a ceremony after his death. Abu Musab Al Zarqawi is therefore a ploy used by the Americans, an excuse to continue the occupation. It’s a pretext so they don’t leave Iraq.”
"He's a ghost, an apparition, though as good Moose-limbs we don't believe in that sort of thing."
Kalesi made the comments to Le Monde as he passed through Paris after attending an inter-religious gathering in the eastern French city of Lyon organised by the Roman Catholic Sant’Egidio Community,
Posted by:Steve White

#11  #8: I won't believe it till I see his maggot infested corpse.

Not too magotty, we want a positive ID.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2005-09-17 22:02  

#10  Maybe this is just Zark's way of cultivating an 'air of mystery'.
Posted by: SteveS   2005-09-17 16:45  

#9  ..What I want to know is why Zark - in the pic below - and Mullah Krekar from Norway BOTH look so much like Andy Kaufman.

This ain't a coincidence, friends.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2005-09-17 16:44  

#8  I won't believe it till I see his maggot infested corpse.
Posted by: milford421   2005-09-17 14:56  

#7  whoa #6. what are you about. caught me offguard here.
Posted by: Jan   2005-09-17 14:40  

#6  O brother, Why have a peaceful rebuilding plan when we can intensify it with a bogeyman, who blows people up our own soldiers, women and child, then so we can have civil war? I mean, Bush really didn't care about his image, he just wanted to kill and kill, that's his secret goal! (heh)
Posted by: Shains Angaper7471   2005-09-17 14:32  

#5  smn...catch-22.
Posted by: 2b   2005-09-17 11:59  

#4  lotta double think, here smn have a shot of this rot gut it make pretend normal easier, trust me on this
Posted by: K Shaleen   2005-09-17 08:39  

#3  It doesn't matter whether he is alive or dead, but whether the insurgents believe! If they don't, we stay...if they do, we stay!
Posted by: smn   2005-09-17 06:13  

#2  Typical islamic double think.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom   2005-09-17 00:38  

#1  "He’s simply an invention by the occupiers to divide the people.”

To make us stay? So we can see more Americans killed? Truly, your intellect is dazzling.
Posted by: jules 2   2005-09-17 00:30  

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