Injured Zarqawi has fled Iraq - newspaper

[bemildred]

Just to add to the "what's up with al Zarqawi" muddle.

LONDON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled the country after being seriously injured in a U.S. missile attack, The Sunday Times newspaper reported, quoting a senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency.

Al-Zarqawi has shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran, The Sunday Times newspaper reported, adding his supporters may try to move him on to another country for an operation.

The paper quoted an unnamed insurgency commander as saying the Jordanian-born militant was wounded three weeks ago when a U.S. missile hit his convoy near the northwestern Iraqi city of al Qaim.

"Shrapnel went in between the right shoulder and his chest, ripped it open and is still stuck there," the commander said, adding a second piece of shrapnel penetrated Zarqawi's chest but exited from his back.

Reuters

[Vanje]

1. Heres Bush's manufactured excuse for invading Iran

They're harboring Zarqawi.

[struggle4progress]

30. And sure enough, the UK's Sunday Times has just identified ...

... Iran as Zarqawi's hiding place.

Ya kin see these big smelly loads comin down the road from miles away ...

[DELUSIONAL]

2. Zarqawi must be a common name

I mean would our government really lie about this guy -- make him up even?

Would the other side make up this person?

So we have a guy who lost a leg -- or maybe not. Who was injured by the powerful American army -- or perhaps wasn't hurt.

A whole city was destroyed (Fallujah) because perhaps Zarqawi had been there or was there or might have walked/driven or ridden a camel through the city.

Zarqawi is a virtual monster -- because he is necessary for the war to go on. For the few believers who still believe the bushie propaganda machine.

Zarqawi's next stop?? Iran -- gotta nuke Iran because Zarqawi has fled there for medical treatment -- or was it Syria??

[w8liftinglady]

18. Exactly what I thought...n/t

[NYC]

19. Zarqawi is a starfish.

Starfish regenerate legs. Hence, the one leg, two legs, one leg, two legs. I'm assuming he can do the same with lungs.

Starfish don't die and come back to life repeatedly. I don't know where Zarqawi learned that trick.

[pinniped]

24. Syria is where the big Al Qaeda terra meeting took place early this month.

Al-Zarqawi couldn't make it because they shot up his taxi cab on the way there and he lost his notebook puter to top it off. Al-Zarqawi couldn't show up at the meeting without his target rich notebook puter, so he bailed on the meeting.

That will teach him not to back up his data on a USB 2.0 memory key.

[Igel]

32. Not his real name, but his nom de guerre.

Al-Zarqawi is "the one from Zarqa" (I think it's "Zarqa"), the village in Jordan where Al-Zarqawi's family's from.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Missed by "that" much..........

Another bedridden terrorist managing to escape and fight another day....

so much bullshit.

[Cooley Hurd]

27. Breaking: One-legged man seen hopping furiously towards the border...

*boing-boing-boing-boing...*:D

[peekaloo]

4. lol....Keyser Soze.

[bemildred]

5. Ed Zachery. nt

[Enraged_Ape]

12. Wile E. Coyote

I am so tired of the lies. They don't even spew this nonsense with a straight face anymore.

[bahrbearian]

6. I heard that Osama's Dialysis machine was moved to Iran.

[MADem]

7. Jesus, he will be opening on the London Stage before too long

...playing a feature role in MOUSETRAP, perhaps???

[PassingFair]

9. LOL

Funny, madem!

[Shadder]

8. I know!

He hopped the entire distance on his on remaining leg. Or did the other one grow back?

[Andrushka]

13. You beat me to it!

I was going to ask "Did he go on foot?" ;-)

[darkism]

22. You beat ME to it, too!

:D

[Dover]

10. Ehhhhh....which way did he go Doc? Which way did he go?

[ooglymoogly]

11. probably leaped into iran in one bound with all the

shrapnel sticking out of his chest and back.

[Karmakaze]

14. Thousands of injured US soldiers flee Iraq...

Gotta love that propaganda - when a US soldier gets wounded and shipped out of Iraq he is a returning hero. When a foreign resistence fighter is wounded and shipped out of Iraq he a fleeing coward.

Your propaganda organs are hard at work bringing you this shite!

[AlCzervik]

15. He's here, he's there, he's everywhere!!

[MiniMe]

16. How can they know so much about al-Zarqawi and nothing about Osama?

It just doesn't make sense.

[leftchick]

26. because you see the terrists have a web-site

Where they post all of this exciting information about the continuing adventures of zarqawi "man of steel"! The are called Qaeda in Iraq too! I can't wait for the next episode!

[radwriter0555]

29. Because OSAMA IS DEAD. He's been gone for almost 4 years now

since December 2001.

[okieinpain]

33. osama who?

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

17. "Z-MAN"--the EEVAAL Dooooer VS. Superchimp

"Z-Man" is copyright 2004---CHimp n' Cheney productions.

All Rights (civil rights) Reserved

[cal04]

20. It must be getting closer to June.

Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

21. well at least we fought him there

so that we don't have to worry about the resurrected-amputee with a hole in his lung canoeing ashore here and causing trouble. ;)

[pinniped]

23. A missile in his lung?

Which missile and which lung????

What a load of BS. Al-Zarqawi went to Cuba and after that, his travel agent has him booked on the red-eye to North Korea.

--Al-Zarqawi has shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran--

Al-Zarqawi is the Bionic Man.

This is getting pretty absurd, but the sheep will swallow every drop.

Hey, I got it. Al-Zarqawi is capable of shifting his vital organs to avoid serious injury. It's an old trick he learned from Supreme Al Qaeda Commander Osama Bin Laden.

[saigon68]

25. The Scarlet Pimpernel

Welcome to the Iraqi Revolution, where a dashing Islamic aristocrat risks his life to enter Iraq and save innocents from the Bush and NeoCon War Crimnals and their knucle dragging murderers in uniform.





For those of you who have never heard of the Scarlet Pimpernel---------


The Scarlet Pimpernel is an Englishman who leads a group saving the lives of French Aristocrats who are being systematically hunted down and killed in a French revolution. His identity is secret and he is really putting egg on the face of the revolutionaries so they attempt to find him through the aid of the expatriot Marguerite St. Just, now Lady Blakeney and the head of society in England. The plot comes into full throttle when she puts them on the trail of the Pimpernel only to discover afterwards the identity of the Pimpernel herself. The race is on. Will they find and kill the Pimpernel before she can find and save him?

[radwriter0555]

28. DID HE HOP ON ONE LEG and keep his GOOD eye OPEN?

It's a flipping miracle.

[Robeson]

31. Which "chest" was he hit in, since I'm sure he has many....

...and how many legs did he flee on?....:shrug:

[Andrushka]

34. Latest photo of Zarqawi....

FAUX News reports: Wanted terrorist and CEO of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, pedals his "terror trike" with his one operative leg back from an undisclosed location in Iran after undergoing surgery to remove a missile from his lung. Sources say that the trike was later used in a trike-bomb attack near Baghdad's 'Green Zone', startling a nearby dog.

[deliusmax]

36. here's another pic of him..

" 'Tis but a scratch"

[Carolab]

37. Tee hee. "None shall pass". n/t

[ngGale]

35. The 'Bionic Man' strikes again...

n/t

[Nyx]

38. I love this, from Abbas Kadhim's blog ...

"OK, we must admit now that Zarqawi is more skillful than any movie character we've seen. With a 'Shrapnel went in between the right shoulder and his chest, ripped it open and is still stuck there,' he elected not to go to Syria, which is a few miles away from where he was allegedly hit, but insisted on going to Iran, according to this article. This way he crossed Iraq from west to east (about 350 miles) passing through American and Iraqi forces in 4 cities, including Baghdad, without being detected."

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