Top insurgent may have been moved to Iran, source says. From Reuters:
LONDON - Al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled the country after being seriously injured in a U.S. missile attack, a British newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting a senior commander of the Iraqi insurgency.Al-Zarqawi has shrapnel lodged in his chest and may have been moved to Iran, The Sunday Times newspaper reported, adding his supporters may try to move him on to another country for an operation.
The paper quoted an unnamed insurgency commander as saying the Jordanian-born militant was wounded three weeks ago when a U.S. missile hit his convoy near the northwestern Iraqi city of al Qaim.
“Shrapnel went in between the right shoulder and his chest, ripped it open and is still stuck there,” the commander said, adding a second piece of shrapnel penetrated Zarqawi’s chest but exited from his back.
“There was concern about spinal injuries,” the commander said. “But his ability to move eliminated that fear.”
The Sunday Times said Zarqawi, accused of masterminding many of the worst insurgent attacks in Iraq, was carried from his vehicle after the missile strike and given basic first aid in a hideout.
When he became delirious with fever four days later he was taken to hospital in the city of Ramadi, 68 miles west of Baghdad, it said. The paper did not say when the commander was speaking but said the source had proved reliable in the past...
The myth making factory out in full force, seems like.
The surest way to kill myths is to arrest the bastardi, put them on trial and have tabloids publish the pictures of their underclothes... Just imagine, Osama, Zarqawi, Bakri and other such goons sharing the same cell fighting over whose underwear it is emerging outta the makeshift washer....
"When he became delirious with fever four days later..."
Ah, how did they know he became delirious? Everything Zarqawi says is the rantings of a delirious mind.
Of course they moved him to Iran. That's where a great deal of the 'insurgent' support is coming from anyway. They can't be losing their face man.
The usual suspects are fond of telling us how the Coalition forces have failed to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, but are oblivious to the fact that the Iraqi people hate the jihadists too.
Because of all the carnage, Zarqawi probably isn't the most popular man of the people, and, for all we know, the forces were tipped off as to where he might be lurking.
Awww, does it hurt? I sincerely hope you are suffering, you monster.