This would explain the excellerated attacks by the insegence, but what real
proof do you have???


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Iraq militants claim al-Zarqawi is dead
Al Qaida-linked extremist suspected of planning attacks
Undated photo of suspected al-Qaida commander Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi.
The Associated Press
Updated: 6:31 a.m. ET March 04, 2004BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Jordanian
extremist suspected of bloody suicide attacks in Iraq was killed some
time ago in U.S. bombing and a letter outlining plans for fomenting
sectarian war is a forgery, a statement allegedly from an insurgent
group west of the capital said.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of
northern Iraq "during the American bombing there," according to a
statement circulated in Fallujah this week and signed by the
"Leadership of the Allahu Akbar Mujahedeen."

There was no way to verify the authenticity of the statement, one of
many leaflets put out by a variety of groups taking part in the
anti-U.S. resistance.

The statement did not say when al-Zarqawi was supposedly killed, but
U.S. jets bombed strongholds of the extremist Ansar al-Islam in the
north last April as Saddam Hussein's regime was collapsing.

It said al-Zarqawi was unable to escape the bombing because of his
artificial leg.

Before the Iraq conflict began last March, U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell said al-Zarqawi received hospital treatment in Baghdad
after fleeing Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence sources said he
apparently was fitted with an artificial leg.

The statement said the "fabricated al-Zarqawi memo" has been used by
the U.S.-run coalition "to back up their theory of a civil war" in
Iraq.

In February, the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq made public an intercepted
letter it said was written by al-Zarqawi to al-Qaida leaders,
detailing a strategy of spectacular attacks to derail the planned June
30 handover of power to the Iraqis. U.S. officials say al-Zarqawi may
have been involved in some of the series of suicide bombings this year
in Iraq.

"The truth is, al-Qaida is not present in Iraq," the Mujahedeen
statement said. Though many Arabs entered the country to fight U.S.
troops, only a small number remain, the group said.

A little over a year ago, Jordanian authorities named al-Zarqawi as
the mastermind behind the October 2002 murder of Laurence Foley, a
60-year-old administrator of U.S. aid programs in Jordan.

In a German court last year, Shadi Abdellah, a Palestinian on trial
for allegedly plotting to attack Berlin's Jewish Museum and a
Jewish-owned disco, testified he was working for al-Zarqawi. He said
they met in Afghanistan.

German authorities have reportedly said they believe al-Zarqawi was
appointed by al-Qaida's leadership to arrange attacks in Europe.

Moroccan government sources said a group blamed for bombings last May
that killed 45 people in Casablanca got its orders from al-Zarqawi. In
Turkey, officials said he was believed to have played a role in
bombings that killed 63 at two synagogues, the British consulate and a
British bank in Istanbul in November.

� 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved


So just who is this guy they are now claiming to be him? Another ploy
by the American government? A Ghost? Hahahahahaah

Check the date on this original article.


"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged
to stick with possibilities:truth isin't"

Mark Twain