Mixed feelings on this. I’m Obviously thirilled that he’s no longer breathing my air, but I don’t think his death will change a fucking thing. Seems like a hollow moral victory to me. I wonder who the next Emanuel Goldstein in Bagdad will be.
I feel only unalloyed joy that this piece of shit has been taken out at last. Yeah, there will be others. That’s no reason not to celebrate this slimeball’s death.
And as for 72 virgins, the only people he’ll have to play hide the salami with are the seven aides that went to Hell with him.
I got him in the Death Pool too, and it’s the happiest I’ve ever been to see myself score. Evil bastard–bombing that shrine in Samarra alone has cost enough lives.
I think it’s a bit early to say what will or won’t change–I can’t believe that just anybody will be able to be the international recruiter he was–but right now I don’t care. Justice has been done, he got betrayed by his own like the dog he was, and we Americans got to be the ones to take him out! Life is good!
I heard they took him to a hospital, where he died of his injuries.
The intelligence we got from this will be invaluable. Congratulations to the Iraqi security forces, the US soldiers, and the coalition forces. You done good.
Whistle, thud, Ka-Powie!
No more AL-ZARQAWI!
I’ll drain my glass.
And bunker my ass,
Awaiting 80% security cuts (Zowie!)
72 virgins await to tease,
the cowardly bomber now at ease,
Mohammed’s murder-boy,
stopped bringing Imams joy,
(And MOAB gave them each their own piece!)
Yes, the guy was a creep. Even so, I just want to say that the sight of normally calm and civilized Dopers cheering over someone’s death, and expressing hopes that he suffered, is a bit spine-chilling.