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The Elaph Arab media website reported on Sunday that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror group, may have been killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
The unconfirmed report claimed that the explosions occurred while coalition forces surrounded the house in which al-Zarqawi was hiding. American and Iraqi forces are looking into the report.
h/t Drudge
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killed themselves while making bombs? That is poetic justice for you.
Posted by: scubajap | Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 04:26 PM
No. They were surrounded by coalition forces and rather than be taken, they all strapped on their bomb belts and self-detonated. ha ha ha... I can just see Zarqawi screaming... "NO! No! no!" Boooophhh!
Posted by: Phoenix | Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 04:30 PM
If he did die, there will be 1,000 men waiting in line to take his place.
Posted by: absynth_minded | Monday, November 21, 2005 at 11:10 AM