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2006-01-24 Iraq

Zarqawi steps down as head of Iraqi mujahideen council

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-24 00:16|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We seem to know more about him then we do with the Oil for Food, and now Peacekeeping money problems, but we can't find him? Makes information like this hard to believe.

Posted by plainslow 2006-01-24 08:23|| 2006-01-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 I know how he feels. Go to enough of these rubber chicken events and you decide you just can't play the game anymore. Not even the gold watch is worth the tedium. Geriatric gasbags droning on and on endlessly... Makes a guy wanna 'splode, y'know?

Posted by .com 2006-01-24 09:33|| 2006-01-24 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 This is starting to sound like a classic corporate re-org. First the CEO steps down. Then the company tries to rebrand itself. Then its market share goes all to hell. Guess the "Al Qaida In Iraq" thing is not working so well. I eagerly await Al Qaida Classic.

Posted by SteveS 2006-01-24 11:28|| 2006-01-24 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 To me, this suggests one of two things:

1) Zarq is dead

2) This reorganization is a bluff, and he'll still be running the show.

Posted by Jimp Ebboter5520 2006-01-24 11:35|| 2006-01-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Or option three. Zarq has been demoted and sent to organize the attack on Europe.

Posted by Danielle 2006-01-24 11:44|| 2006-01-24 11:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Does the new guy become the new "Emir of Slaughter"?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-01-24 11:54|| 2006-01-24 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm holding out for "Duke of Earl".

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-01-24 15:04|| 2006-01-24 15:04|| Front Page Top

#8 SteveS says, "This is starting to sound like a classic corporate re-org. First the CEO steps down. Then the company tries to rebrand itself..."

just what color was his parachute

stock options??
pension??
health plan??
no bid consulting?

Posted by mhw 2006-01-24 15:12|| 2006-01-24 15:12|| Front Page Top

#9 The statement, whose authenticity could not be independently verified, said Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, "who is Iraqi," had taken over from al-Zarqawi as "emir" of the new Mujahedeen Shura, or Council . . .

In other words: "Drop the JDAM on Rashid, not on me! He's the one you want!"

Posted by Mike 2006-01-24 15:33|| 2006-01-24 15:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Easing the deadman into retirement.

Posted by 6 2006-01-24 15:51|| 2006-01-24 15:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Sounds to me like Zarq may be giving up on Iraq and planning to go elsewhere. Either it's gotten too hot for him, or he's exhausted his welcome, or both. We need to keep an eye open for him showing up somewhere else, possibly in Pakistan or Lebanon.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-01-24 16:46|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-24 16:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Congratulations, now die.

Posted by Captain America 2006-01-24 16:51|| 2006-01-24 16:51|| Front Page Top

#13 He'll probably end up as a color commentator on al-Jazeera for a year or so, then land on his feet as an offensive coordinator somewhere.

Posted by eLarson 2006-01-24 18:28|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-01-24 18:28|| Front Page Top

#14 LOL

Posted by 6 2006-01-24 19:23|| 2006-01-24 19:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Jaafar al-Taie, a Jordan-based analyst who closely monitors the insurgency:

"For the first time, the U.S. is on the defensive and is about to withdraw, so they're restructuring," he said. "It's an attempt to expand the breadth of Al Qaeda politically and militarily. You give Al Qaeda an Iraqi face, you give it a different dimension."

Sounds like this guy spends too much time watching CNN and reading the Daily KOS. I'm not sure where else he would get the idea that the US is on the defensive and that we would leave before most of al Quaeda is dead.

Posted by RWV 2006-01-24 20:00|| 2006-01-24 20:00|| Front Page Top

#16 "I'm stepping down to...er...spend more time with my family. The kids, you know, they grow like little boomlets"

Posted by Abu Zarqawi">Abu Zarqawi 2006-01-24 21:23|| 2006-01-24 21:23|| Front Page Top

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