Al-Zawowie Is Dead

BAGHDAD, Iraq Jun 8, 2006 (AP)— Abu Musab al-Zarqawi rose from the life of a street thug in Jordan to become the symbol of "holy war" in Iraq, masterminding the bloodiest suicide bombings of the insurgency, beheading hostages and helping push Iraq into a spiral of sectarian violence with vicious attacks against Shiites. The 39-year-old al-Zarqawi, slain in a U.S. air strike Wednesday night, was instrumental in turning the swift U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 into a grueling counterinsurgency fight, helping draw Arab militants into what he depicted as a war for Islam against the American "crusaders" and Shiite "infidels."

De dee de dee - ABC News has interviewed the sole survivor of the air strike which killed Al-Zawowie. A neighbor and elderly goat herder, Al-Eyewitness states he was awakened by the early morning strike. According to Al-Eye shortly before sometime, members of the USMC entered the house, handcuffed, tortured, and shot in cold blood the members of the insurgent group, along with mastermind Al-Zawowie who appeared to have been in prayer. The Corp then ordered an air strike to cover up their wrong doing.

ABC has obtained exclusive polaroids of the aftermath, taken by a Syrian visitor who was waiting for a taxi when the killing took place. According to Abu Al-Salamander, a physician in the village of Hibhib, Al-Zawowie had not - contrary to pop myth - regenerated any lower extremities.

According to accounts from other hamlet dwellers, Al-Zawowie was not there and this is another case of American crusaders and infidels bombing places and claiming Al-Zawow was there. Said locals have been arrested and transported to Poland for interrogation.

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