We Got ‘em, Part 2
by James Na ~ June 8th, 2006. Filed under: Iraq, Terrorism, U.S. Military.The Z-Man is no more.
Photo from AP via MSNBC.
WaPo reports:
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mastermind behind hundreds of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq, was killed early Wednesday by an airstrike –north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.[snip]
U.S. warplanes dropped two 500-pound bombs on a house in which Zarqawi was meeting with other insurgent leaders. A U.S. military spokesman said coalition forces pinpointed Zarqawi’s location after weeks of tracking the movements of his spiritual adviser, Sheik Abdul Rahman, who also was killed in the blast.
One commenter responded to Joshua’s earlier post on the Z-Man’s inability to handle smallarms by stating “We can snicker over his inability to handle a SAW once we have had the opportunity to piss on his burning corpse.”
I think it’s time to snicker a little.
My sincere appreciation and kudos to the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces and the Iraqi security personnel who made this morning’s scene possible.
June 8th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Too fast of a death for him. I think some time in cellblock D of a federal-pound-him-in-the-ass pen, and forced some salad tossing, would have been more fitting. For a few years.
Or maybe he shot himself while playing with guns during the taping of another video, and we just took the credit? Flay a few F-16’s over after the fact and some fireworks… Hollywood Army.
Will it change things dramatically? No, but I don’t think that diminishes the importance any. It’s still a kick in the balls of terrorists. It IS demoralizing to them. It may make some think twice – you play, you pay.
June 8th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Where do I line up to piss?
June 8th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Darn, how about dropping a bomb over Jong Il the MF galore? And No the other MF is next - by ROK Air Force.
June 8th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
I also hate to pick at such good news, but I really would have preferred a slower, more agonizing, and really humiliating death for him.
All the Pay Per View revenues could have gone to the JDAM fund.
June 9th, 2006 at 12:36 am
Picky, picky.
Our way of war is not to kidnap people and burn them slowly, as satisfying as that might be.
Our way is to find our enemy by offering gazillion dollars in reward (or $25 million in this case), make his friend turn him in, call in the air strike and pulverize the area with satellite-guided munitions.
Ah, the sweet joys of complete and utter air supremacy. We’re so used to it now that we just feel entitled to it!