By US airforce strike.
Roundups at Instapundit and Pajamas Media. They are hosting a podcast of “Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club interviewing Omar from Iraq the Model – direct from Baghdad.”
Comments open for celebration.
From the comments, this – On the CBC 6:00 a.m. radio news, the commentator called this an “alleged victory”.
Well, to be fair – not everyone is celebrating.
More reaction from Iraq, IraqPundit
Iraq improved today, though true peace is obviously still far off. There are already reports of more deaths at the hands of terrorists who are now killing only for the sake of murder. Zarqawi’s death is another setback for a campaign that is only about death. The Zarqawi movement has failed to achieve any of its goals. Obviously, it has failed to stop the (often painful) development of Iraqi democratic institutions. Yes, there has been much sectarian violence, more than enough to satisfy those vultures who have been circling what they hope is Iraq’s corpse. But that violence was far from what Zarqawi’s band of killers sought to foment. Indeed, the last time we heard from Zarqawi, in an audiotape released this month, he had been reduced to pleading for an all-out civil war, ordering Iraq’s Sunnis to kill Shiites. But it’s Zarqawi who is dead. Iraq lives. As the Baghdadi man said from his heart, “It has to.”
We interrupt this pr … –
Jordan arrests Zarqawi’s brother-in-law and an Al Jazeera journalist live!
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counterterrorismblog.org ^ | June 8, 2006 | Olivier Guitta
In fact, a few hours ago, while an Al Jazeera journalist was interviewing Abu Kadama, Zarqawi’s brother-in-law in Zarqa, Jordan, the broadcast was suddenly interrupted, most probably by Jordan. Because when the journalist came back on the air, he said that Abu Kadama had just been arrested by Jordanian services. Then a second sudden interruption occured, and when the Al Jazeera anchor appeared, he announced that his journalist colleague had also been arrested by Jordan. Keep in mind that Jordan’s King Abdullah was one of Zarqawi’s main targets. In light of recent foiled Al Qaeda attacks in Jordan, it seems…
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Penny:
I am very well aware that David Corn is “an established lefty writer from a very lefty magazine”. The whole point was to offer a different perspective – in this case, the point that Zarqawi was a virtual nothing in Iraq before the war (there weren’t suicide bombings on a near-daily basis), so taking him out now is basically cleaning up a mess that was created and doesn’t even represent a net zero on the grand scale. I’m happy that they got him, but time will tell what it means.
You can argue the point if you wish, but instead you chose to attack the messenger. And who did you choose to cite for your critique of “an established lefty writer from a very lefty magazine”? The established righty writer from a very righty website, David Horowitz. Ironic, don’t you think?
Hans Rupprecht :
Snipers bullit, or bomb? Does it really matter?
One less maniac amoung the living.
I hope his victims where waiting for him at the other end, once the head shot hit.
Penny
This is just for you, because I know you will sleep better after having read this. You will find it reassuring.
Zarqi wasn’t killed at all. Nope. Truth is that picture was taken by someone while he was sleeping. You see, America never catches the real big terrorists, no because if they did how could they justify carrying on this Military Industrial Complex dream…a neverending war. They’ve spent 380 billion so far. The industry is awash in money. This is bigger than WW2 already and it will go on indefinitely!
No, they can’t kill the very guys that make this all possible. Zarqi and Binnie are their meal ticket for the indefinite future. They just posed him and claim a kill to keep the homies happy. Every once in a while you have to bring the homies a trophy or else they get discouraged and wanna bring everyone home.
Maz2, when I read Warren’s “the bed-wetters of the Left” after breakfast, I thought that he had become an SDA. It finally occurred to me that what I had always considered to be his drivel actually was the intellectual language of the Right.
Steve d.
Do I have to explain the obvious?
What he meant if you read it in its context. Is that those who live by violence , like the zealots of his day.
Will die by there own methods.
This rage in the ends eats them up & spits them out. The spiritual lesson is plain. Hate & violence destroys ones soul.
This has nothing to do with police or Soldiers who’s job is to secure us FROM Violence.
They resort to violence under Civilian Elected control. Not out of spite, hate, anger, but to protect those who are intimidated. They also reconstruct as well as destroy.
Jesus remember, healed a Roman Centurions daughter. A lot of ex military & serving soldiers where followers than & latter.
He knew like the rest of us civilization is kept together by a thin band of Men & Women willing to die for others. Hardly revolutionaries as the verse was meant for.
Do you think AlZ is enjoying all those virgins, or has he discovered that he and all those that went before him are burning in hell. Too bad he still has his head attached. It has been very educational today, listening the most of the msm trying to make this a non story. Peter M on the national tonight had a panel, discussing the plot, and wondering how it was playing in vancouver, and other parts of Canada. Was it as big a story as it was in the east. They guy from Vancouver basically said, reading between the lines, hey, the rest of canada doesn’t worship at the altar of Toronto. Peter looked shocked. He also said BC had air india, and other provinces have had their own problems. My take is the rest of canada thinks this is a wake up call, and seens Ont and the cbc think it is just a bunch of wackos having fun.
Here is my take on the CBC and other media of the same ilk. If the Harper government chokes off their funding and they die a most deserved natural death, lefties will say that a valuable public voice has been silenced and that it was all done in the name of censorship and silencing a moderate bla bla bla bla.
I say we let them live and continue to spew their blather. Lets keep them all in one place. At least there we can keep an eye on them and the drivel they spew. Choke them off and they infiltrate the other media and, like a virus, infect other media and personnel. We can never silence them – lets just quarantee them in just a few places. Also, lets keep exposing them for the frauds and apologists of terrorists that they are.
“Too bad he still has his head attached. It has been very educational today, listening the most of the msm trying to make this a non story”
I find it hard to believe your watching the same cbc as I am. Considering that this story seems to be the only thing on the cbc aside from hockey, saying they’re making it a non story seems strange. Don’t get me wrong I’ve got problems with the media too, but CBC seems to provide the best coverage. Devoting 10-15minutes every night to these diverse panels with people on them willing to say things such as “the rest of canada doesn’t worship at the altar of Toronto” is really what they seem to do best in my opinion.