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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: steve harris who wrote (68368)6/9/2006 1:58:12 PM
From: Skywatcher  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
another complete screw up ... now they say he WAS ALIVE and they DIDN"T KNOW IT?...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still alive and tried to escape when American troops reached his hideout where war planes had dropped two 500-pound bombs that killed the al Qaeda leader, the U.S. military said on Friday.

Major General William Caldwell, the spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, said a wounded Zarqawi tried to roll off the stretcher he was being carried on by Iraqi police when he saw U.S. forces arrive at the bombed-out house.

"We were not aware yesterday that in fact, Zarqawi was alive when U.S. forces arrived on the site," Caldwell said.

"He obviously had some kind of visual recognition of who they were because he attempted to roll off the stretcher, as I am told, and get away, realizing it was U.S. military," he told Fox television news.

Zarqawi died a short time later from the wounds he suffered during the air strike in a village north of Baghdad that also killed his spiritual leader, another man and three women on Wednesday, Caldwell said.

Iraqi police first reached the site, Caldwell said. U.S. ground forces then arrived and identified Zarqawi.

Caldwell said Zarqawi, who was initially conscious, did not provide any intelligence information before he died.
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