U.S. Military Rejects Reports Al-Zarqawi May Have Been Beaten

U.S. Military Rejects Reports Al-Zarqawi May Have Been Beaten

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. military dismissed as ``baloney'' reports that American soldiers may have beaten Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, before he died on June 7 after a U.S. air strike on a house north of Baghdad.

``He died while American soldiers were attempting to save his life,'' General George Casey, who leads coalition forces in Iraq, told the Fox News Sunday television program. ``So the idea that people were beating him is ridiculous.''

The London-based Sunday Times today quoted an eyewitness as saying he saw American soldiers take Zarqawi from an ambulance, tear his robe to check for explosives, then kick him repeatedly in the chest while demanding his name.

The soldiers were ``shouting and screaming and in a very tense and agitated mood,'' Ali Abbas, a 25-year-old laborer who was one of the first at the scene and had helped pull Zarqawi from the rubble of the house, told the Sunday Times.

``They kept kicking him with their boots, shouting `what's your name?', but the man only moaned and said nothing,'' Abbas told the newspaper. He estimated it took a quarter of an hour for Zarqawi to die from when he was removed from the ambulance.
...

------------------------------

Somehow I don't think the "We bombed him to save his life" excuse isn't going to fly.

feats of derring do before being wounded. They also staged a bogus "rescue," pretending they had to do it to save her life, when the truth was the hospital personel had TRIED to return her earlier, and were turned away.

n/t

referring to the eyewitness report of a guy who was.

It took a few seconds for me to get it.

Now that I think of it though, the actual quote comes from Chico, in Duck Soup. I love the Internet--you can find an incorrect citation for just about anything.

:rofl:

And the Pentagon response sounds like lying with the truth.

``He died while American soldiers were attempting to save his life,'' General George Casey, who leads coalition forces in Iraq, told the Fox News Sunday television program. ``So the idea that people were beating him is ridiculous.''

Note it is not a denial - just "the idea is ridiculous", as if ridiculous ideas don't get actuated all the time. The whole Iraq war is an example of a ridiculous idea that turned into reality.

with it. I am glad the prick is dead.

n/t

massacres. Perhaps we should issue cameras to every Iraqi so that they can capture for posterity images that contradict Crusader lies.

Of course it is! These lying Iraqi's will say anything. It has happened too many times, they lie and tell us something, then later we find out it is false.

this sort of thing is likely to please, mostly through repressed anger, the Idiot's large base. Displaced hatred is a very powerful leverage that the worst governements have always used. On the other hand, this sort of things constitutes a guarantee that the US will not be able to positively engage, and truly cooperate with, any nation in the ME for several generations. The short-sightedness, or stupidity, of this governement since 2000 is of historical proportion.

and ended up in Free Republic after reading some of these responses.

only cover about two-thirds of the men in Iraq (a man with a similar beard), wouldn't it?

I call bullshit.

Redstone

Maybe they are both right..

What if they were giving him CPR and some bystander saw this?

Just sayin...

Why did this American general refer to the "alleged Iraqi", people are not alleged, claims of crimes are alleged.

Does it have anything to do with the women's clothes and the photo of FDR? I'm getting soooooo confused.

heard about this. What's the story?

...that a photo of FDR had been found among the rubble of Zarqawi's safe house. I saw it quite late so I don't know the origin of the rumor.

Democrats. Osama probably has an autographed photo of FDR and JFK.

next they'll say he had all of Michael Moore's books

"Baloney". Was Haditha "baloney" too, you POS? :grr:

The FUCKERS.

that said he died in the bombing two days ago. Then the story morphed into he was still alive when we found him but he died on the stretcher. Then the story evolved again to say that he not only mumbled something and but tried to get up to run away. Now we learn that he very well my have been beaten to death while in US Custody.

Why would Casey lie about such a thing? :sarcasm:

in ONE news report, on tv.

so we have propaganda waged by BOTH sides... by the way you know who I believe in this story? NOBODY.

And thats no BALOGNA!