Zarqawi sends love letter to Osama saying he's just fine & dandy

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4594527.stm

'Zarqawi' claims wounds 'minor'

Al-Zarqawi has a large bounty on his head
A man claiming to be Iraq's most wanted militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said he had been wounded - but only lightly - in an audio message on the internet.
"After the information according to which I was seriously wounded, I want to reassure you that all this is pure rumour and totally unfounded," it said.

It was not possible to verify whether the voice was Zarqawi's.

We break the news to you our brothers that our sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi... will be sending his new message to sheikh of the mujahideen, the prince of al-Qaeda Organisation Osama bin Laden," said a statement signed by the group's spokesman Abu Maysarah al-Iraqi, according to Reuters.

...same story, different angle, usa today:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-05-30-zarqawi-tape_x.htm

[NecessaryOnslaught]

1. A healthy holiday helping of ....

[Th1onein]

2. The government thinks that Americans are really stupid....

for shame.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Zarqawi or Goldstein?

Now that Osama's bin Forgotten, it's time for a new Emmanuel Goldstein to keep the sheep in an appropriate state of unquestioning obedience to authority.


The BBC: premier propagandist for the imperium

by William Bowles • 10 February 2005

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The unquestioning acceptance by the Western media of Zarqawi’s existence is all the more amazing when you consider that before Colin Powell’s embarrassing speech at the UN that sought to justify the invasion of Iraq with an outrageous litany of lies and fabrications, nobody had heard of the man, who is now, we are told “Osama’s right-hand man” or sometimes as his “disciple”. A man who was widely reported as having been killed when the US bombed his ‘poison factory’ in Northern Iraq in 2003. The ‘factory’, yet another fabrication of Western propaganda, most likely the CIA, figured highly in Powell’s UN speech.

One would think that with such an obvious coincidence of ‘press releases’ that ‘coincide' so fortuitously with events like elections, eyebrows would be raised, or at the very least, questions asked about the timing and the content. A search of the BBC’s Website revealed 299 articles that mentioned Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Searching through them we find not a single article that raises any questions about his existence or the timing of statements allegedly made by him. Every article accepts without question the utterances of the US goverment.
One article dated 24 January 2005 tells us

Zarqawi – who tops Iraq’s most wanted list – has apparently declared war on Iraq’s election.

In another ‘news’ piece dated 23 January 2005 the BBC tells us

Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for many bombings and beheadings in Iraq.
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But we are not told who the attribution belongs to, and who, exactly linked ‘Zarqawi’s group to al-Qaeda’? The only source is not surprisingly the CIA but the BBC neglects to mention this fact, nor the wealth of background material on the role of the CIA in fabricating evidence about Zarqawi. We are asked to take these statements as fact.

http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0307.html