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Iraq
Iraq Qaeda denies Zarqawi killed
2005-11-23
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Iraq said media reports that its leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi was killed by U.S. forces were a "lie", according to an Internet statement posted on Wednesday. "The media has lately circulated this news that was announced by the Crusaders (U.S.) about the death of the leader of the group in an armed confrontation ... which was an additional lie," the group said on a Web site statement.

A U.S. official said on Sunday U.S. authorities were looking into whether Zarqawi was killed during fighting in northern Iraq but a White House spokesman later said that was "highly unlikely."
Posted by:Steve

#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  

#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  

#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   2005-11-23 17:20  

#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  

#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  

#3  That coulda been anybody's head in the pile o' splodeydopes.
Posted by: Jarong Angaviper4129   2005-11-23 15:26  

#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   2005-11-23 14:08  

#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  

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