Zarqawi killed in air raid

[Barking_Mad]

A significant moment if true? I fear probably not.

Iraqi PM confirms Zarqawi death

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has announced that militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed. The Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq is considered the figurehead of the Sunni insurgency. Reports say he was killed in an air raid near Baghdad.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq has been blamed for scores of bombings that have killed hundreds of Shias and US forces. Zarqawi appeared in a video earlier this year, in which he reproached the US for its "arrogance and insolence".

The BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad says that if the reports are proved to be true it will be seen as a very significant moment in the fight against the insurgency, especially as it comes early in the life of Mr Maliki's government.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

They also seem to have destroyed the Search function.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Cut off one head and another will appear to replace it.

 

[astronaut]

A significant moment if true? I fear probably not.

If true, good ridence to extremist scum.

Unfortunately, he and his followers have already wreaked any chance of Iraqis living a normal life, at least in the next decade or two or more, so it's not so significant.

 

[Barking_Mad]

They also seem to have destroyed the Search function.

Sarcy bastard.

 

[nino_savatte]

They can kill the leader but the 'insurgency' will carry on regardless.

 

[lostexpectation]

I wonder how much collateral damage occured aswell?

 

[skunkboy69]

Wasn't he removed from leadership by his own people months and months ago?

 

[nino_savatte]

I wonder how much collateral damage occured aswell?

It's interesting that they've not mentioned that. As it was an airstrike, then it stands to reason that other damage occured and that possibly innocent lives were lost. The words "sledgehammer" and "fly" seem apposite.

 

[bendeus]

I'm rather looking forward to see how the 'coalition' manage to explain away a continuation of ultraviolence-as-normal now that their favourite boogeyman and evil orchestrator of all things nasty cannot be pinned with the responsibility.

 

[Andy the Don]

Another "turning point" for the occupation of Iraq.
There have been so many "turning points" in this Iraq misadventure, (death of Saddam's sons, capture of Saddam) that we must be back where we started by now.

 

[TomUS]

Buish & co will be crowing about the major victory in the wor on terror, and as with the other milestones in this war, nothing much will change.

 

[admirablenelson]

"Tony Blair has hailed the death of militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq as "very good news"."

I think this simple statement gives a very clear idea of the barbarity of this whole conflict. The death of a person is not "good news". It may be a decisive moment or a strategic advance, but it is not good news.

A stupid, arrogant statement that will cost the lives of more British soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

 

[Lock&Light]

The words "sledgehammer" and "fly" seem apposite.

Zarqawi was just a 'fly'!

 

[moono]

Zarqawi was to Iraqi resistance as Gary Glitter was to rock n' roll.

 

[Lock&Light]

Zarqawi was to Iraqi resistance as Gary Glitter was to rock n' roll.

That is, quite simply, meaningless.

 

[Andy the Don]

I think this simple statement gives a very clear idea of the barbarity of this whole conflict. The death of a person is not "good news". It may be a decisive moment or a strategic advance, but it is not good news.

If it is the death of a nutjob like Al-Zarqawi, its very good news, but do not worry another will be along to fill his vacant position in the 72 virgins in paradise race very soon..

 

[Barking_Mad]

That is, quite simply, meaningless.

Have you got anything of interest to say on this issue or are you just being a pain in the arse as usual?

 

[moono]

That is, quite simply, meaningless.

Life without frontal lobes must be tough. My commiserations.

 

[Lock&Light]

Have you got anything of interest to say on this issue or are you just being a pain in the arse as usual?

I don't make my postings with the purpose of entertaining you. Do you think that Moono's comments meant anything?

 

[Lock&Light]

Life without frontal lobes must be tough. My commiserations.

You are a very silly person.

 

[moono]

Gary Glitter was a pervert who shamed his peers. It isn't that difficult a bridge to cross. Only for you, L&L, apparently.

You do understand 'apparently' ?

 

[Lock&Light]

Gary Glitter was a pervert who shamed his peers. It isn't that difficult a bridge to cross. Only for you, L&L, apparently.

You do understand 'apparently' ?

So you think that Zarqawi was a 'perverted' terrorist who shamed his noble terrorist peers? What a load of chicken piss.

 

[moono]

If I did, I wouldn't be discussing it with the lobe-less, now would I .

 

[TAE]

It would have been better to arrest him and put him on and trial.

In any case, we will now see how significant he actually was. Will the attacks suddenly stop? I don't think so.

 

[Lock&Light]

If I did, I wouldn't be discussing it with the lobe-less, now would I .

Making such comments reveals far more about you than it does about me.

 

[Barking_Mad]

I don't make my postings with the purpose of entertaining you. Do you think that Moono's comments meant anything?

Who said anything about entertainment? I was talking about your continual lack of intelligent comment in numerous posts....anyhow...

Flippant though his comments might be, he has a point. The killing in Iraq has long since spread well beyond Zarqawi to the point where his actions have probably been just a drop in the ocean compared to the overall picture of both the Iraqi resistance and the civil war.

The idea of pinning so much blame on him was in the short run a good media ploy, but when the killings and car bombs carry on the US and UK will have no more excuses and will only serve to magnify the horror of events. Yes he was a aprt of events and yes he did his bit to 'stoke the fire', but in reality all this was going to happen anyway.

 

[X-77]

"Tony Blair has hailed the death of militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq as "very good news"."

I think this simple statement gives a very clear idea of the barbarity of this whole conflict. The death of a person is not "good news". It may be a decisive moment or a strategic advance, but it is not good news.

A stupid, arrogant statement that will cost the lives of more British soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

unless that person was Blair, then it would be very good news and I'd raise a glass to that

 

[moono]

L&L;

Making such comments reveals far more about you than it does about me.

Fine. Now zip up.

 

[Lock&Light]

Fine. Now zip up.

I will be the one to decide when I 'zip up'. As for you, your zip has been hanging open for some time now.