KOEB 5/4/06 Z man on the run ..... a la Gilbert & Sullivan

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KOEB 5/4/06 Z man on the run ..... a la Gilbert & Sullivan

Don't know if KO will cover this but we are closing in on the Z man!

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Thursday it was hot on the heels of the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq,
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, after discovering documents and an unedited video of him in a rural hideout near Baghdad.

Zarqawi was throwing all his resources into attacks in Baghdad and was probably somewhere south of the capital
where U.S. forces recently launched a series of raids, U.S. military spokesman Major-General Rick Lynch told reporters.

"We believe it is only a matter of time until Zarqawi is taken down. It's not if, but when," he told reporters.

"Zarqawi is zooming in on Baghdad, we are zooming in on Zarqawi."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_dc

And all I can think about was how lucky we are to have a "Modern Major General"

Sadly his picture wouldn't copy from google so I did the next best thing.

The Pirates of Penzance

Lyrics to: A Modern Major-General

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus' uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery—
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy—
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee.
For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.