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To: American Spirit who wrote (44794)	5/6/2005 4:34:01 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

english.aljazeera.net Al-Zarqawi: America's new bogeyman By Roshan Muhammed Salih Thursday 01 July 2004, 17:26 Makka Time, 14:26 GMT If US intelligence is to be believed, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the ultimate bad guy. Dangerous, ruthless and elusive, he is one of the most wanted men in the world. Washington has linked al-Zarqawi to al-Qaida and says he is the prime suspect in some of the deadliest attacks of recent years. More specifically, US authorities accuse the 38-year-old Jordanian of masterminding a string of spectacular bombings in Iraq. They even increased the bounty on his head on Thursday to $25 million - the same as al-Qaida chief Usama bin Ladin. But despite the allegations, little is known about the man himself - and some experts even doubt he is alive.... Al-Zarqawi is then believed to have fled to Iraq in 2001 after losing a leg in a US missile strike on his Afghan base.... Arab commentator Abd al-Bari Atwan says it is quite possible that al-Zarqawi is now dead. He told Aljazeera.net: "There is no real proof that he is alive. If he is supposedly moving around freely in Iraq, why haven't Iraqis spoken about him? He can't be that difficult to recognise with his wooden leg." The rumours of al-Zarqawi's demise did not stop the Jordanian authorities, though, from accusing him of masterminding and financing the killing of a US official in Amman in October 2002.... ======= Blame it on Zarqawi dead or alive!

To: American Spirit who wrote (44794)	5/6/2005 4:36:04 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

As it turns out, the report of medical treatment wasn't even credible to begin with. According to U.S. intelligence, Zarqawi had a leg amputated in Baghdad. Except that most sources now believe Zarqawi is equipped with two working legs. As Newsweek colorfully put in in early 2004, "The stark fact is that we don’t even know for sure how many legs Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi has, let alone whether the Jordanian terrorist, purportedly tied to al Qaeda, is really behind the latest outrages in Iraq." rotten.com ============Man those Iraqi doctors are good. They amputated his leg and left him with two working ones! That outsourcing of medical care is going to work better than I thought.