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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
ZarqawiÂ’s sister grieves, hopes for good successor
2006-06-09
ZARQA, Jordan - Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s favourite sister refuses to believe the Al Qaeda frontman has been killed and hopes God will find someone even better to replace him as an Iraq insurgent leader. In her home in the impoverished Jordanian town of Zarqa, Umm Qudama, 33, sobs repeatedly as the news of her brother’s death in a US air raid north of Baghdad sinks in. “Are you really sure he is dead?” she asks people gathered around her as a camera crew from Al Jazeera television prepares to interview her husband.
Oh yeah-yeah-yeah, sweetie, Baby-Bo'kins is dead-dead-dead!
If the dreadful news is true, she says, her only consolation would be that “God may give the mujahedeen somebody even better”.

In his interview with the Arabic news channel, her husband Abu Qudama, also known as Saleh Al Hani, paid lavish tribute to his slain brother-in-law, prompting Jordanian police to cut the live broadcast in mid-transmission. “If he had lived in a European country, the president would have kissed his feet,” Abu Qudama said, before being cut off.
I'm guessing Abu doesn't get out much and doesn't have the firmest grip on world affairs.
It was Zarqawi who organized the coupleÂ’s marriage. After meeting Abu Qudama in Pakistan in 1990 and hearing his complaints that he would never find a wife after losing a leg to a landmine, Zarqawi sent for his sister, then just 17.
Posted by:Steve White

#21  Â“Are you really sure he is dead?” she asks people gathered around her as a camera crew from Al Jazeera television prepares to interview her husband.

Well...(as the joke goes): He has no respiration, and no pulse and his brain is in a jar in the office of the coroner. But hell, for all I know he may be out some where practicing journalism.
Posted by: WTF!   2006-06-09 20:40  

#20  Thanks again!
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-06-09 15:20  

#19  Anon5089: Supposedly, it resonates deeply in the muslim psyche, or so i've read, don't know if it's true.

There is a post by an Iranian blogger in Canada that illustrates your point better than I could. In a word, yes- it's very true. And very muslim. I would quote it, but it's a little long.

Read it here.
Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283   2006-06-09 15:11  

#18  According to relatives, ZarqawiÂ’s nephew, Mohammed Al Harahsheh, was arrested by Jordanian authorities last month on suspicion of links with the Al Qaeda frontman. ......recently released and was seen yesterday purchasing 5 new Bentley sedans at an Amman dealership.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-06-09 14:08  

#17  Thanks for the precision, CF.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-06-09 13:59  

#16  Zarki was a Bedouin from the Beni Hassan tribe. I'm sure he knew plenty of Paleos, but he wasn't one.
Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283   2006-06-09 13:46  

#15  My poor brother was so good in bed, too.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-06-09 13:39  

#14   “If he had lived in a European country, the president would have kissed his feet,” Abu Qudama said, before being cut off.

hopefully by a serrated blade
Posted by: Frank G   2006-06-09 13:27  

#13  They "stone the devil" during their pilgrimage to Mecca too.
Posted by: lotp   2006-06-09 13:23  

#12  I once read that the fact that young (arab) muslims stone jews (even if they're soldiers) has an HUGE symbolic value in muslim lands,

It's due to two factors. First, the Paleos are very fixated on what happened in the past. Second, they steal all their advanced technology from the Jews. Apparently they didn't see David's sling when he threw the rock at Goliath. Please don't correct this misapprehension.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-06-09 13:14  

#11  The kids next door pelting the journalos is a nich touch... how paleostinian of them (70% of jordanians are actually "palestinians", IIRC)! This is truly an ingrained arab trait, found everywhere there's a Youth to pick up a stone, and an infidel to aim at, be it an european no-go area, or garbage-dump zarqa.

Slightly OT : I once read that the fact that young (arab) muslims stone jews (even if they're soldiers) has an HUGE symbolic value in muslim lands, some kind of recovered honor... since one of the traditional unwritten laws of dhimma is that muslim kids grow up bullying dhimmis, adult included, notably by stoning them at will... to remind them that even a muslim children is superior to an adult unbeliever.
So, the pelting of jews is some kind of restoration of the broken natural order (jews being superior to and victorious over the Master Race). Supposedly, it resonates deeply in the muslim psyche, or so i've read, don't know if it's true.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-06-09 13:09  

#10  I don't care where "sis" is located, if she publically grieves over this piece of shit and supports his work, that makes her a legitimate *target*. Finish her off, and wrap her remains in bacon grease.
Posted by: Crusader   2006-06-09 13:05  

#9  Damn straight, Abu. I've only the one peeper and I've got ten wives. Or is it twenty?
Posted by: Mullah Blinky   2006-06-09 10:30  

#8  Â“Â…complaints that he would never find a wife after losing a leg to a landmine…”

Ohhh Abu, Buck up! Wimmin round here find that attractive. In fact, lose one of yer eyes and youz got er made in the shade, dog.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2006-06-09 10:28  

#7  After meeting Abu Qudama in Pakistan in 1990

so Abu Qudama DID got out, but not to the best places. Hmmm.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2006-06-09 09:32  

#6  Â“Are you really sure he is dead?”

Send her the pieces. One at a time...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-06-09 07:40  

#5  Some more work for our aircraft on that street.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-06-09 06:06  

#4  I wonder could someone just liquidate the entire clan?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2006-06-09 05:59  

#3  yah know...
Zarqa sounds like a nest of vipers that need to be cleaned out.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-06-09 04:57  

#2  

Wonder who it will be? We are listening and then it will be "One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy" to our F16ingy Dingies.

:-)
Posted by: Gromosh Elminegum5705   2006-06-09 03:48  

#1  FREEREPUBLIC.com > NANCY PELOSI > ZARKEY'S death changes little or nothing about Dubya or Amer's probs in Iraq. FR also reports that Zark's DNA will be tested by Quantico and has arrived in Quantico for such.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-06-09 01:48  

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