The pentagon's story about "Almost catching Zarqawi"

[AlCzervik]

This is from the other day and i wonder how many people read the details, i read this part an almost fell over laughing.

On Feb. 20, he was traveling from Fallujah to a meeting in Ramadi when covert US forces almost caught him, the Pentagon believes. During the raid, US troops pulled over a car as it approached a checkpoint. As they did so, a pickup behind turned and sped away.

When they caught the pickup the US personnel found the computer, over $100,000 in euros, and two Zarqawi associates. Zarqawi himself may have escaped by rolling from the truck under an underpass, then fleeing on foot to a safehouse somewhere in the vicinity.

"We were extraordinarily close to getting him," says a high-level military official who regularly travels to Iraq.


Please note how he rolled from the truck and escaped by foot to a safehouse.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/csm/20050427/ts_csm/aclosecall_1

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. Funny how

whenever *'s numbers are in the tank, someone "almost gets caught." I think this is all caca.

[AlCzervik]

2. yup, a one legged dead guy rolled out of the truck

and hopped to a safehouse with a check point only a few miles away and the army could catch him?

[NoPasaran]

3. I almost won the lottery once

If only the six numbers I picked were the same as the six numbers actually drawn I'd be on easy street now.

[cruadin]

12. LOL--if the time machine that I almost built once had worked....

we could travel back in time and pick the right numbers this time. ;)

[whistle]

4. Almost, schmalmost.....they missed Zarqawi, they missed ...

...Bin Laden and many other key terrorist leaders. But, they have managed to slaughter 100,000 innocent Iraqis which means they are getting the numbers of targets down and perhaps by the process of elimination they'll get lucky and get one or both of these men.:sarcasm: :rant:

[AlCzervik]

5. I think the whole story is bullshit and that "escape" by him

highlights it.

[whistle]

9. Bin Laden was an agent of the CIA, perhaps Zarquawi was a ....

...double agent, who knows it this mixed-up topsy-turvy insane world of political intrigue and perpetual war to make the rich even wealthier.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. You can almost hear the voice of Maxwell Smart saying ...

"Missed him by that much." :eyes:

[lectrobyte]

7. To paraphrase Jon Stewart, isn't anyone gonna call them on

their bullshit? So, a guy with one leg and recovering from a stomach wound jumped out of truck and got away? Right. Did the soldiers walk up to him and used the Force on them: I am not the one-legged terrorist you are looking for.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Everyone has an internal truth-o-meter. This story failed. Our problem

is that some of the followers-swallowers don't have a truth-o-meter or it is non-functional.

The first test that my truth-o-meter processed was why did they release this information when 99.99 of everything else is all
classified for 'NATIONAL SECURITY' reasons.

[spindoctor]

10. What journalist publishes this crap?

That's the REAL question here.

[AlCzervik]

11. many of them and i can't believe that at least

some of them didn't say bullshit. This story is as ridiculous as the Jessica Lynch rescue.

[Racenut20]

13. Bout time to ketch ole Chemical Ali again, huh ??????

hehehehehe.. These freakers are so bad at lying, no one challenges them on it anymore. It is a total lost cause.