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Now that would be great news!! A real moral booster for sure.

By the way – I just came across an interesting article via Captain’s Quarters. Anyone wanna bet how much we won’t hear about this?

UN *peacekeepers* – HEH !

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22713789.htm

“Zarqawi may now be surrounded by the Iraqi National Guard….”

Whoa! That’d cast fear into MY heart!

By the Iraqi National Guard?

Oh, yes, right.

Okay,

head on a spike brought to my door with a note from his mother and a full DNA workup by New York / Las Vegas / Miami CSI

and maybe…

Whether or not the rumor is true, we can be confident that US special forces are on the way to check it out. As for the prowess of the Iraqi National Guard, well, lets not forget that at one time the US army was less powerful than Belgium’s.

One reason to suspect that it isn’t true is that Zarqawi has safe haven in Iran if he wants it, so why risk running around Iraq? Saddam had nowhere else to go, but Zarqawi does.

I still hope it’s true, particularly if it’s the Iraqi National Guard that captures him.

What a great November this would be if he was in fact surrounded and caught. I would hope that I will be able to toast his death at Thanksgiving dinner.

NotThisGirl

You mean Piece keepers. Yeah, so tell me again, why we should pay our UN dues

/sarcasm

Do y’all remember the period after the Wall started to come down? It seemed like things were going our way all over — Communism collapsed, there was a Statue of Liberty in Tienanmen, and so on?

Now, not everything is turned out the way we want — but Poland, the Czechs, the Romanians, the Baltic states are free and members of NATO, and Russia is at least an occasional ally instead of the implacable enemy.

Now, in the Middle East, Arafat’s gone, the Palestinians are starting to make noises — I just heard a Palistinian shopkeeper quoted as saying that now that “Daddy” Arafat was gone, it was time for the Palestinians to grow up and think (and vote) for themselves — Saddam is gone and I don’t think there’s any question but that we’ve at least thoroughly got the attention of a lot of the other little satraps and theological thugs in the area.

It’s clear that surrounded or not, Zarqawi has lost a lot of clout, and may be on his way to his reward.

You know, I think things are looking pretty good.

When are military types going to learn to get it done first, and boast about it later? I don’t know how many times our own public affairs officers have trumpeted that they were hot on the trail of al-Dhouri, the paymaster of the Sunni resisters. He’s still on the loose, no doubt laughing at us for telling him exactly where he must not lay his bedroll.

Pardon my French, but they say it best: “Faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours.”

Peter G.:

Good point. That’s probably where Osama is as well. Zarqawi will be a very difficult prize to claim.

There is no reason why Zarqawi should be any safer in Iran than Abu Nidal was in Iraq,there is not much that can be done with a rabid old dog of war except put it down.I could see Zarqawi becoming an embarrassment to Iran, not everyone wants to play host to a psychopath who gets his instructions directly from Allah.In Iran Allah has middlemen who pass on his message,organised religion, historically,has taken a dim view of those with a direct line.I think he will get the well deserved martyrdom that he has been running from in the not too distant future.