al-Zarqawi, enjoy your stay in hell

[red]

i think they did say this morning during the news breifing that they had to do some work on the guy and clean him up quite a bit for the pictures. the general also showed the actual footage of the attack, and they were massive explosions. hard to believe he wasn't just vaporised

[jack's smirking revenge]

i think they did say this morning during the news breifing that they had to do some work on the guy and clean him up quite a bit for the pictures. the general also showed the actual footage of the attack, and they were massive explosions. hard to believe he wasn't just vaporised

That's what I saw and the thought that I had while watching it. The house wasn't bombed once. It was bombed twice for good measure.

Maybe his head was the only thing that was left and that was easy to "pretty up".

tyler

[Rastak]

i think they did say this morning during the news breifing that they had to do some work on the guy and clean him up quite a bit for the pictures. the general also showed the actual footage of the attack, and they were massive explosions. hard to believe he wasn't just vaporised

That's what I saw and the thought that I had while watching it. The house wasn't bombed once. It was bombed twice for good measure.

Maybe his head was the only thing that was left and that was easy to "pretty up".

tyler

Yea, they were picking through the rubble and found his head lying there perhaps....probably took a while to find the rest of him to identify.

[red]

they said that they identified him through finger prints and known scars and tatoos. so there had to be a little more then a head left, but there couldn't have been too much left

[HarveyWallbangers]

Conspiracy theory. The place wasn't a crater. It was more like when a tornado hits a house--although with a greater intensity because this looked to have some serious concrete. The house was leveled, so they weren't playing around. My co-worker in the cube next to me served in Iraq for a year. He said they brought the best of the best. Definitely a morale boost to most of the troops.

[Deputy Nutz]

Lucky bastards have palm trees.

Why are the trees still standing?

I bet Jack liked the movie Wag the Dog.

[jack's smirking revenge]

Lucky bastards have palm trees.

Why are the trees still standing?

I bet Jack liked the movie Wag the Dog.

In principle I liked the movie, but I thought it was really really dull.

Good point about the trees. With two 500lb bombs, you'd think those would've been torched too. They tend to fold when a tornado hits. But those are palm trees. Strong. Sturdy. Made for climbing and bendy like a Tibetan monk.

The real question I think is to see whether there's still coconuts on the trees. Look really close. There. See it? It's not coconuts hanging from the trees. Its NUTZ!

The trees don't concern me. The fact that I have the exact blanket featured prominently in the photo is what freaks me out. Maybe I'm next on the 2X500 list.

tyler

[packrulz]

Dang they bombed the shit out of him. I am surprised that they got an intact picture of his face.

I was just about to make that comment. 2 500lb. bombs were dropped on his safe house. How can there actually be anything left of him? I don't have visual evidence of the blast location, but that house has to be a crater...

It's just wierd to me. We get video of the bombing of a house. Then we get pictures of al-zaq's bruised face. Where was he, in a Spies-Like-Us bunker underneath the safe house? I guess the bottom line is that it only matters that he's dead, but its still strikes me as odd.

tyler

I was thinking they must've heard the plane coming and took off running from the house, but those bombs destroy everything within a radius of hundreds of yards. Kaboom! Kaboom! I wonder if he peed his pants.

[Tony Oday]

Heck there were trees still standing after big boy and little boy in WWII.

Have fun in Hell!!!

[Travbrew]

He could have expired one of three ways.
1. In general, the explosion ripped him apart.
2. Rubble and shrapnel ripped him apart.
3. The concussion from that large of an explosion litterally makes your brain go POP (and out through your ears) from the massive shock wave and pressure differential created so quickly.
Number 3 could explain the lack of physical trauma in the picture.
Who knows, who cares. He's dead.

[Rastak]

He could have expired one of three ways.
1. In general, the explosion ripped him apart.
2. Rubble and shrapnel ripped him apart.
3. The concussion from that large of an explosion litterally makes your brain go POP (and out through your ears) from the massive shock wave and pressure differential created so quickly.
Number 3 could explain the lack of physical trauma in the picture.
Who knows, who cares. He's dead.

Yup, let's toast his demise with a cold one tonight......

[Little Whiskey]

Yup, let's toast his demise with a cold one tonight......

already knocking a few back. but i guess that wouldn't have changed any even if he was still alive. just makes em taste a little better!!

[Jimx29]

I'm especially enjoying the fact that of all the pics i've been seeing so far, the gov has been VERY careful in what they are showing of him.....every pic is cropped just below the neck......and the reports are carefully worded like, "there was enough evidence remaining to positively identify him", but that sure doesn't confirm that what most likely happened was he is in a million pieces all over that area
The video I saw of the attack this morning of what the area looked like before and after....sheesh.....it's funny they could find an ant


Oh, and just maybe we have a seperated at birth going on here

[hurleyfan]

ya know, I always hate to get into conversations like this, 'cause I as a human being shouln't be "glad" that another human being got killed(is it really Zarqawi fuck-head?) but I live a mere 100 miles for NYC and lost 2 close friends in the terrorist attacks on the Towers, and to this day, almost 5 years later, I still can't understand why Iraq & Afghanistan still exist as countires on this planet!

I know, all the bleeding heart people(I won't say Liberals) will say it's wrong to counter attack and kill innocent people(muslims), but what about all the innocent people that died in NYC and the Pentagon? I-fucking-raq and Afganistan should've been nothing but a large sandbox on the morning of Sept 12 2001. That would've sent the world the right message you can't fuck with US and get away with it!

Will killing Zarqawi, or especially Bin Laden end the animosity against US(the infidels)? probably not, and unless there is a serious statement made this "war on terror" in Iraq will continue for more time than all of us want.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Killing Zarqawi is a really good event, gives the government a bit of a boost.

Zarqawi was in Northern Iraq because he got kicked-out of Anbar Province by the Sunni insurgency. He was no longer that important of a player. But symbolically, it's good news.

Equally important news today was that the government was finally able to agree on all the ministers. That was looking very dicy, wasn't sure if they would ever form a government. So a postive day in Iraq.