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| Iraq |
| Zarqawi briefly survived US bombing |
| 2006-06-10 |
| Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist leader killed in an airstrike on Wednesday, initially survived the bombing and died from his wounds after Iraqi police officers and American soldiers arrived on the scene, American officials said Friday. The news came as American forces, trying to sustain the momentum gathered after Mr. Zarqawi's death, raided dozens of suspected hideouts of Al Qaeda across Iraq. The Americans said they detained at least 25 suspects, and a senior Pentagon adviser said documents, cellphones, passports and computers were also seized. But one of the raids, in a village not far from the spot where Mr. Zarqawi was killed, appeared to cause a number of civilian deaths. The new material provided the Special Operations force charged with tracking terrorists with fresh intelligence to carry out attacks before insurgents can shift their operations, the adviser said. "They're going full blast right now," he said of the force. He was granted anonymity because of the classified nature of Special Operations missions. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #6 What about the time between the two bomb hits? About 30 seconds. So, who was doing the looking and saw that Zarqawi was still alive (maybe outside) after the first bomb hit? The pilot, after doing an initial BDA on the structure, decided to drop a second JDAM. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2006-06-10 13:11 |
| #5 Imagine if this clown would have been captured alive. Too bad Saddam is still kickin |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-06-10 11:49 |
| #4 Abu, izzat you? (GI rummages around his backpack) Here, take a bite, thi will help you. Swallow it down, good boy. Now wasnt that a delicious MRE Pork Patty? (too bad they did away with those long ago - those were Pork Pattys were the most foul disgusting and flat out nasty MREs ever made) |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-06-10 10:56 |
| #3 What about the time between the two bomb hits? It looked like a shoot-look-shoot rather than a classic double-tap. So, who was doing the looking and saw that Zarqawi was still alive (maybe outside) after the first bomb hit? If this has been covered already (It seems obvious), then I missed it. |
| Posted by: Sneresing Ulerelet6445 2006-06-10 08:41 |
| #2 Mr. Zarqawi died "almost immediately" after the Americans arrived, General Caldwell said, but not before mumbling a few unintelligible words. rosebud . . . |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-06-10 08:35 |
| #1 Best US airstrike since they took out the IJNs Yamamoto. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-10 07:02 |