
Via AFP:
The US ambassador to Iraq said that Al-Qaeda frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s days were numbered as US forces kept up the hunt for Iraq’s most wanted man following rumors he had been killed.
“His days are numbered. He is going to be ultimately found,” Zalmay Khalilzad said in an interview with CNN.
Either he will be brought to justice or he will die in the battle to capture him but we are getting closer to that goal every day. A lot of coalition forces and experts are working hard on this,” he said.
“It is not a question of whether but when.”
Iraqi and US troops were continuing to hunt for the Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who has a 25 million dollar US bounty on his head, after commanders dismissed reports that he had been killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
“We have no indication that Zarqawi was killed and we will continue operations to search for him,” a US military spokesman told AFP in Baghdad.
In Beijing, where US President George W. Bush was wrapping up a visit, White House spokesman Trent Duffy described the reports of Zarqawi’s death as “highly unlikely, not credible.”
Oh well. They’ll get him eventually – as the US ambassador to Iraq said: Zarqawi’s days are numbered.
Hat tip: Ace
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All in due time …
We don’t have time. It’s time for the war criminals in the US government to roll up Zarqawi and bin Laden and get out of Iraq. Unless of course your a war profiteer and want to stay there forever? Peace
Steve, tell the truth for once in your life. You mean surrender, not peace.
Steve wrote, “It’s time for the war criminals in the US government to roll up Zarqawi and bin Laden and get out of Iraq.
That would be 99% of your representatives. Only 1% of your representatives think it’s time to “get out of Iraq”.
Steve wrote, “Unless of course your a war profiteer and want to stay there forever?
Open your mind. Maybe there are other reasons that we want to stay (and not “forever” as you wrote in extreme fashion). The reason is not because I’m a war profiteer but that I want to see lives saved. Pulling out would see alot more deaths than current policy I believe. Including in other conflicts that America gets in in the future because the enemy would know how to get us to surrender.
- As they say…. the fat lady hasn’t sung yet…. FOX reports that the DNA testing from human remains found onsite are continuing. So who knows. Juries still out. Either way Al baby is a dead man walking if he hasn’t already bought it…..
- Bang