At 8:34 PM +0000 11/3/04, POPBITCH wrote: > >> Hardline Honeyz 2 << > Al Zarqawi: the unusual suspect > > Mysterious Jordanian celebrity executioner Abu > Musab Al Zarqawi is a huge hit with lovers of > Hardline Honeyz. With a $25m price tag on his > head, al Zarqawi shot to fame as the star of > "Sheik Abu Musab Al Zarqawi slaughters an > American infidel with his own hands", a video > showing the death of Iraq hostage Nicholas Berg. > But is Al Zarqawi for real? > > A Jordanian of that name did fight in Afganistan > in the 80s and in Kurdish Iraq in the 90s, > with a group called Ansar al-Islam, but no more > was heard of him until Colin Powell's famous > warmongering speech to the UN named him as the > link between Saddam and Osama. Since then Al > Zarqawi has become a mythic bogeyman blamed for > almost every real or imagined terrorist threat. > > *Suddenly he was al-Qaeda's bioterrorism expert > and head of terror camps in Saddam-era Iraq; he'd > never previously been linked to either. > * US intelligence experts say Berg's executioner > clearly didn't have a Jordanian accent. > * Iraqi insurgents claimed Al Zarqawi was dead, > and all new captured operatives from Ansar > al-Islam say they've never laid eyes on him. > * CIA said he only had one leg after an operation > in Baghdad, but since the executioner in the > video clearly had two they now say, er, he has > two after all. > > So... Al Zarqawi: he's the new Keyser Sose.
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