# Zarqawi killed in bombing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850 "2006-06-08T06:39:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/1 "2006-06-08T06:39:04Z")
ABC news reporting right now. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/2 "2006-06-08T06:40:09Z")
Reporting on TV, that is. Can’t find it online yet. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/3 "2006-06-08T06:47:22Z")
Nobody has it online yet. But ABC is doing it live, and their reporter is saying the military is very confident that he’s dead. He’s been reported dead a few times before, so we’ll see. And ABC now says that it’s “confirmed,” but I’m not taking that to mean a ton at the moment. If this is true, though, I’m glad I once again unwittingly stayed up this late. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/4 "2006-06-08T06:54:06Z")
That’s the end of the live report. They say it was a bombing in Baghdad, but they don’t say much else in terms of real detail. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/5 "2006-06-08T06:57:20Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That’s the end of the live report. They say it was a bombing in Baghdad, but they don’t say much else in terms of real detail. They said they had intelligence he was in the house they hit, along with his spiritual adviser. Although they said “Now back to our regular programming” and played the bumper clip, my ABC affiliate hasn’t switched back to regular programming, they’re still on World News Now. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/6 "2006-06-08T07:05:28Z")
It wasn’t reported in the 7:00 GMT news on the BBC, so I guess we have to wait for confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/7 "2006-06-08T07:05:41Z")
Remember when Saddam was killied in that missile attack? ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/8 "2006-06-08T07:14:16Z")
MSNBC (tv) reporting that “U.S. military officials” confirmed it to Jim Miklaszewski. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/9 "2006-06-08T07:19:27Z")
The AP just issued a news alert on its Web site, and there’s a banner on [MSNBC.com](http://MSNBC.com) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/10 "2006-06-08T07:26:37Z")
There’s a banner on the BBC saying they expect a statement soon. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/11 "2006-06-08T07:28:18Z")
Banner on CNN as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/12 "2006-06-08T07:33:08Z")
Main news story on the BBC’s site, nothing on CBC’s page yet. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/13 "2006-06-08T07:36:14Z")
According to an interview with an ABC anchor in Iraq: The raid happened at 6 p.m. local time last night, in a town 50 km north of Baghdad. The raid, by American soldiers using helicopters and rockets, was on a house where there were seven people, including two women. It’s unclear how many were killed. Zarqawi was apparently not killed, only injured in the attacks, and American soldiers found him and turned him over to the Iraqis, where he later died. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/14 "2006-06-08T07:48:12Z")
[CNN article](http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.al.zarqawi/) [Google News search link](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=zarqawi&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d) ---
**Author:** ![Jebus\_H.Christ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Jebus\_H.Christ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jebus_H.Christ)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/15 "2006-06-08T08:03:50Z")
Fuck Yeah. Good riddance scum. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/16 "2006-06-08T08:07:34Z")
Assuming it’s true, yay! We got number 3! Maybe within a decade we’ll get Osama. We sure got that Saddam motherfuck, his stupid-ass stayed in his own country! I heard that we have some credible info from the Saudi’s that implicates the internal links to the 9-11 attacks. The culprit is…dumb-fuck bush. I sure hope his brother who deftly covered up his brother’s impropriety gets a 2008 slot. If a government makes me kill myself, is it suicide? ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/17 "2006-06-08T08:09:06Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > Assuming it’s true, yay! We got number 3! > > Maybe within a decade we’ll get Osama. > > We sure got that Saddam motherfuck, his stupid-ass stayed in his own country! > > I heard that we have some credible info from the Saudi’s that implicates the internal links to the 9-11 attacks. > > The culprit is…dumb-fuck bush. I sure hope his brother who deftly covered up his brother’s impropriety gets a 2008 slot. > > If a government makes me kill myself, is it suicide? You know, if you’d like to start a GD or Pit thread…feel free. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/18 "2006-06-08T08:09:47Z")
> [@Jebus H. Christ](#): > > Good riddance scum. Get used to that. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/19 "2006-06-08T08:10:37Z")
And what does this achieve? Within no time at all, there will be another figure-head, or 5. That is the thing about terror, you can never beat it. I think they had better just keep track of him and try to prevent him from organising more attacks. How, I don’t know, but simply blowing him up doesn’t make the world a safer place for very long. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850/20 "2006-06-08T08:15:35Z")
> [@Garfield226](#): > > You know, if you’d like to start a GD or Pit thread…feel free. My bad. Sorry. This guy got killed threads, and my cat is cute threads, always seemed distant to me. I guess death is welcome in MPSIMS, I just haven’t noticed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zarqawi-killed-in-bombing/359850.md?page=2)