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Originally Posted by reconmike
Ding dong the bitch is dead, hope he suffered a great deal.
He personaly beheaded 2 americans, I sincerely hope he laid there with that house on him for hours, wishing the great OBL would swoop from the sky and rescue him.
The US should have dropped this bomb on him a year ago while he was holed up in that mosque in Fallujah.
If it makes a difference or not still remains to be seen, but atleast there are 8 or so less terrorists in the world.
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reconmike...please....share with me how you filter out fact from fiction...how you decide what to embrace and repeat, vs. what info you discard and what info you grow skeptical about? What would prompt you to believe anything that the U.S. Military "discloses", or that comes from the U.S. executive branch?
Why are you so forgiving of folks who have squandered their credibilty? Have they rehabilitated themselves, in your eyes, or have you never waivered in your acceptance of what they've told you for the last 5-1/2 years. I'm asking you these questions because your post seemed to be the best example of someone who has the least, or no doubts.
Do you think that Dexter Filkins added the line below because he might have still been embarassed that the U.S. military, in April was caught, through it's own bungled display of a slide presentation to the media, filtering propaganda about Zarqawi, specifically to Filkins, who then obediently published it on the front page of the NY Times, without noting his own skepticism?
Look at the "face" released by our military, mike....freshly "bombed" and washed clean for the cameras with ivory soap. More sanitzed BS from our own version of Big Bro, IMO....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/wo...pc&oref=slogin
News Analysis
A Leader Is Eliminated, but Insurgency Is Likely to Carry On
By DEXTER FILKINS
Published: June 8, 2006
<center><center><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/06/08/world/zar.190.2.jpg"><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40303000/jpg/_40303681_zarqap203body.jpg">
(I've added the BBC/AP photo on the right....for a comparison exercise...)
......In January, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia announced that it had joined the Council of Holy Warriors, a collection of seven insurgent groups that was headed by an Iraqi, Abdullah Al-Baghdadi.
Yet some experts doubted whether Mr. Baghdadi really existed, and whether Mr. Zarqawi had relinquished day-to-day control of the organization....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040900890.html
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi
Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat To Iraq's Stability
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 10, 2006; Page A01
The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis against Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their perceived dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success with that effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists.
For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.
Some senior intelligence officers believe Zarqawi's role may have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, which has included leaflets, radio and television broadcasts, Internet postings and at least one leak to an American journalist. Although Zarqawi and other foreign insurgents in Iraq have conducted deadly bombing attacks, they remain "a very small part of the actual numbers," Col. Derek Harvey, who served as a military intelligence officer in Iraq and then was one of the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an Army meeting at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., last summer.
In a transcript of the meeting, Harvey said, "Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will -- made him more important than he really is, in some ways."
"The long-term threat is not Zarqawi or religious extremists, but these former regime types and their friends," said Harvey, who did not return phone calls seeking comment on his remarks....
......That slide, created by Casey's subordinates, does not specifically state that U.S. citizens were being targeted by the effort, but other sections of the briefings indicate that there were direct military efforts to use the U.S. media to affect views of the war. One slide in the same briefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in Baghdad. Filkins's resulting article, about a letter supposedly written by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times front page on Feb. 9, 2004.
Leaks to reporters from U.S. officials in Iraq are common, but official evidence of a propaganda operation using an American reporter is rare.
Filkins, reached by e-mail, said that he was not told at the time that there was a psychological operations campaign aimed at Zarqawi, but said he assumed that the military was releasing the letter "because it had decided it was in its best interest to have it publicized." No special conditions were placed upon him in being briefed on its contents, he said. He said he was skeptical about the document's authenticity then, and remains so now, and so at the time tried to confirm its authenticity with officials outside the U.S. military.
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Last edited by host; 06-08-2006 at 07:56 AM..
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