The Zarqawi snuffing out? How many times is the military going to change the story? First, he dies in the initial 500 pound bomb blast ... then he died on a stretcher (remarkably intact) ... then he tried to get off the stretcher ... then a witness says he was stomped out, and now he died from the bomb blast again. And the news media has dutifully regurgitated the Pentagon's ever-changing stories, mostly without much analysis, leaving some of us out here wondering what-a-gwan...
The U.S. Military runs another delay ruse by us. Just this morning, the New York Times reported:
With rumors circulating in the Iraqi news media that Mr. Zarqawi had begun to run from the house as the first bomb struck, American officials said Saturday that two military pathologists had arrived in Iraq to perform an autopsy on his body to determine the precise cause of his death. The results from the autopsy, and Mr. Zarqawi's precise location at the time of the airstrike, will be disclosed soon, an American military official said.
And from Reuters today:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Abu Musab al Zarqawi lived for almost an hour after the first U.S. bomb struck his hideout north of Baghdad last Wednesday, a U.S. military spokesman said on Monday.
Major General William Caldwell said Zarqawi, the former al Qaeda leader in Iraq, died 55 minutes after the first of two 500-pound (227-kg) bombs hit the building and 24 minutes after U.S. forces arrived at the scene.
A U.S. medical officer, Steve Jones, told the same briefing that Zarqawi died from blast waves caused by the bombs.
He said DNA testing had confirmed Zarqawi's identify.
Anyway, at least we can all agree that he is, in fact, dead.
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