Al-Zarqawi, Tiny Children Killed by US in Iraq
david via sam | 08.06.2006 22:29 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | World
In a PR coup for the Coalition forces in Iraq, an air strike on a building on the outskirts of Baqouba, the provincial capital of Diyala, has reportedly killed al Qa'eda lieutenant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Several of al-Zarqawi's aides were killed in the sortie, including Sheik Abdul Rahman, the al Qa'eda leader's spiritual advisor. The discovery of women and children's clothing in the wreckage of the multi-storey building in the aftermath of the attack suggests carnage resulting from the Americans' 500-pound bombs was not limited to al Qa'eda militants.
In a PR coup
Australian, American, and British terrorists
Al-Zarqawi's opposite number in Iraq, the American military commander General Casey, said in a triumphal interview today that distinctive scars and biometric identifiers including fingerprints had allowed for the definite identification of the terrorist luminary in the hours following the deadly strike.
The killing of al-Zarqawi is a timely boon for the spin machines of the White House and the US military. Evidence has come to light in recent weeks of the massacre of scores of civilian men, women,and children by American soldiers engaged in brutal revenge attacks after the loss of their compatriots still under fire from the Iraqi resistance. But with news wires and the foreign pages of Western newspapers now exclusively committed to reports of the death of the militant Jordanian showpony, the atrocities committed by the personnel of the United States Marine Corps have temporarily disappeared from public view.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has joined in the chorus of voices crowing over the death of al-Zarqawi from a safe distance. 'Normally, I wouldn't express pleasure at the death of anybody' said the pouchy Antipodean politician, qualifying his unabashed delight at the rare success for Western troops better known for gunning down unarmed Iraqis and the torture and imprisonment of thousands of those who dare to mount a defence of their occupied country.
Certainly many in Iraq will be heartened at the news of the death of the cavalier militant al-Zarqawi, who is reputed for involvement in hundreds of bombings, shootings, and beheadings, and a careless disregard for the tangential deaths of civilians matched only by the forces of the Coalition.
But Downer has a partisan view of the ongoing conflict. For many watching the progress of the Western occupation of Iraq exactly the same sense of relief and satisfaction will be felt when the Australian, American, and British terrorists who have given orders resulting in the killing of tens of thousands of innocents in war-torn Iraq in recent years finally shuffle off the mortal coil.
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This is absolutely ...UNFORGIVABLE
Now, this is absolutely UNFORGIVABLE, And yet, how many more innocent lives have been taken this way? What about tomorrow?
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/15112
The ever elusive Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi appears at a polling place in Baghdad as an anthropomorphized donkey with the simple wish to vote. Yet he was turned away because he is a Jordanian national. After election officials realized they had just let the most feared terrorist in the world (besides Osama Bin Laden) slip from their grasp, American planes bombed deserted polling centers in his current suspected hideout, Ramadi, as collective punishment for allowing Zarqawi to galavant freely among what many residents describe as a "ghost town".
http://shlonkombakazay.blogspot.com/archives/2005_01_01_shlonkombakazay_archive.html
The killing of al-Zarqawi is a timely boon for the spin machines of the White House and the US military. Evidence has come to light in recent weeks of the massacre of scores of civilian men, women,and children by American soldiers engaged in brutal revenge attacks after the loss of their compatriots still under fire from the Iraqi resistance. But with news wires and the foreign pages of Western newspapers now exclusively committed to reports of the death of the militant Jordanian showpony, the atrocities committed by the personnel of the United States Marine Corps have temporarily disappeared from public view.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has joined in the chorus of voices crowing over the death of al-Zarqawi from a safe distance. 'Normally, I wouldn't express pleasure at the death of anybody' said the pouchy Antipodean politician, qualifying his unabashed delight at the rare success for Western troops better known for gunning down unarmed Iraqis and the torture and imprisonment of thousands of those who dare to mount a defence of their occupied country.
Certainly many in Iraq will be heartened at the news of the death of the cavalier militant al-Zarqawi, who is reputed for involvement in hundreds of bombings, shootings, and beheadings, and a careless disregard for the tangential deaths of civilians matched only by the forces of the Coalition.
But Downer has a partisan view of the ongoing conflict. For many watching the progress of the Western occupation of Iraq exactly the same sense of relief and satisfaction will be felt when the Australian, American, and British terrorists who have given orders resulting in the killing of tens of thousands of innocents in war-torn Iraq in recent years finally shuffle off the mortal coil.
www.ironyparty.org/newsfeed
Related:
This is absolutely ...UNFORGIVABLE
Now, this is absolutely UNFORGIVABLE, And yet, how many more innocent lives have been taken this way? What about tomorrow?
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/15112 The ever elusive Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi appears at a polling place in Baghdad as an anthropomorphized donkey with the simple wish to vote. Yet he was turned away because he is a Jordanian national. After election officials realized they had just let the most feared terrorist in the world (besides Osama Bin Laden) slip from their grasp, American planes bombed deserted polling centers in his current suspected hideout, Ramadi, as collective punishment for allowing Zarqawi to galavant freely among what many residents describe as a "ghost town".
http://shlonkombakazay.blogspot.com/archives/2005_01_01_shlonkombakazay_archive.html
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08.06.2006 23:55
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Zac dead again
09.06.2006 02:03
Dead Again...The Zarqawi Effect
Al-Zarqawi is dead.
Again.
That's right. This is the second time he's been reported dead. This time we have a Polaroid of his peaceful-looking face after an airstike apparently killed the visage of Al-Qaeda’s franchise in our imperial outpost. This time we have officials pushing the story.
This time.
Last time, it was just news reports and low-level official claims. This time, there is no news reporting getting in the way of the carefully displayed military announcement. No independent verification to muddy the water.
The timing couldn't be better. For Bush. For the new Iraqi "government," and for those Congressional sycophants who can't quite run away from their support for the war come November.
In fact, the Iraqis announced and swore in a Defense and Interior Minister at the same time Zarqawi was being bumped off...taking care of two persistent problems for our puppeteers in Baghdad. Those Ministry vacancies were a huge source of criticism.
In fact, the news of Zarqawi's re-death came during a meeting with Congressionalzoids...giving them what they needed. Some sort of victory in Iraq that also makes the bogus case for Al-Qaeda's "International Terrorist Network" in our occupied "terror-tory." It makes the case for referring to insurgents as terrorists.
And for Bush? Well, it takes Haditha and the mess of Iraq out of the news cycle. Perhaps for a day, perhaps for a week. And it makes our presence seem like a positive force in Iraq. We are trying to stop "the killers," as Georgie likes to call them. It's bullshit, of course...because Haditha and the thousands upon thousands of civilians we've killed did not benefit from our presence. But this is a perfect counterpoint to the boiling blood here and there about Haditha and the growing image of US occupation as torturous, murderous and self-serving.
And it's a perfect closing of the circle...between Zarqawi and Haditha. Because both are predicated on military sources. All of our info on Zarqawi...his rise from the dead, the regeneration of his leg, the beheading of Nick Berg, the various "video" of him, the website postings...all have come without independent verification. Without any verification, in fact. No one in the media asked questions...about Zarqawi being reported dead, losing a leg in Afghanistan, about Nick Berg's strange path to Zarqawi which had him sharing his computer and internet account with two 9/11 hijackers...and had him working on a radio transmitter at Abu Ghraib when beheaded by Zarqawi. No questions asked, no real verification of what we are told. Excuse me if I think Zarqawi has been a PsyOp from day one, particularly since we've seen Pentagon documents that say he was/is. He was. And is.
Which is the story of Haditha, right? We were told a totally bogus story. We are told what the military needs to tell us. And it took a long time to get the truth. A truth that came out because people asked questions. Because the verification was sought independently. And now we have the Zarqawi story, which has not been verified at all over the last couple years and which is...as I sit here writing this...being used to push Haditha out of the news cycle in favor of a new, shiny image of an effective military presence out to protect the Iraqi people from "terrorist killers." A shiny image of a War on Terror. A bogus image...but shiny.
So, Zarqawi is dead again. And so is catch-all evildoer for most anything that happened in Iraq. The link between Al-Qaeda, whether real or not, is now going to be harder to make. This is the downside from this stage PsyOp... that Team Bush is not going to have Zarqawi to kick around anymore. A cynic might think this is a sign of desperation...that they really needed a victory. Really needed to counter the Haditha story of a brutal military presence with no real benefit for Iraqis. That they needed to stop the bleeding in the polls.
Okay, so I'm a cynic.
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Zarqawi: snuff movie maker, dies in pentagon war film
09.06.2006 04:13
The snuff film, with an introduction by US President George Bush, is being broadcast on TV tonight.
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09.06.2006 12:38
End of dispute
It is Mr Bush if you want to be polite, and there is one word that should never be used referring to him. It has a proper use in English to name the most delightful of human activities. It should have no place in the vocabulary of obscenity, and is certainly not an activity that should be wished on George W. Not that Schmoo has.
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