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Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi

By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Thu May 26, 2005 at 10:01:33 AM EST
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An al Qaeda website today announced that due to al Zarqawi's injuries, it has appointed a deputy to take his place until he's recovered. He is Sheikh Abu Hafs al-Kurani.

"The leaders met after the injury of our sheikh, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ... and decided to appoint a deputy to take the lead until the return of our sheikh," said the statement, which was posted on a militant web site that two days earlier announced al-Zarqawi had been injured.

"The leadership decided that our esteemed Sheikh Abu Hafs al-Kurani will be a deputy for the mujahideen (holy fighters) for he was renowned for carrying out the most difficult operations," it said, adding that Zarqawi had chosen him for such attacks.

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    Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi | 13 comments (13 topical)
    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#1)
    by Mreddieb on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:21 PM EST
    For those who had any hope that things would get better post Zarqawi,election, saddam, shock and awe and Mission accomplished should be aware this rebellion has a long line of accession. We like Charlie Brown are constantly being presented with another football to hang our hopes on, and over and over the insurgents keep kicking us with it in our stupidity.

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#2)
    by ras on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:21 PM EST
    ED, Yes! My thought exactly! Democrats should realize that defeating one Republican candidate will only lead to yet another accession by a different candidate, and in the same manner as you have already given up in Iraq, you should give up in your own country, too. Thanks for stating the position so clearly. Hopefully others will listen to you.

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#3)
    by Mreddieb on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:21 PM EST
    Ras You're nuts!

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:21 PM EST
    There's only one question people should be asking Bush..."Where the f#*k is bin Ladin?" He said he'd get him "dead or alive," but did it mean of natural causes at a ripe old age? He said bin Ladin could run, but he couldn't hide, but whether or not bin Ladin's runnin', he's hidin' up a storm... Forget Al-Zarqawi, forget everything- where is bin Ladin? Or does murdering 3,000 on a sunny September morning only garner threats and rhetoric? So you "removed a threat" in Iraq (which is utter BS anyways), but what about the guy who murdered 3,000 people on a sunny, September morning in Manhattan? What about that, George? What about that? Where's bin Ladin, Mr. President?

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:21 PM EST
    he doesn't seem to wandering the world or making many public appearances. perhaps you prefer the good old days when he was able to do so. as far as replacements for slain psychopaths, I would rather they had the problem after having a leader killed than us doing nothing ie. the standard proposal here.

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#6)
    by ppjakajim on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:21 PM EST
    Bag - What does OBL's whereabouts have to with this? I mean, evidently we have caused another leader to be replaced. Is that a death blow? No. But it does do great harm to al-Qaida. No organization suffers multiple leadership lossess without problems. Why not just be happy with something good happening rather than ranting negative comments? I mean, you said you were didn't care.

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:21 PM EST
    No, PPJ, Blagh said OBL didn't mean anything to Blagh "as a Canadian." As a human being whose neighbours Blagh happens to like, he would take vicarious glee in having OBL caught and strung up... It seems Blagh has more to say about OBL than upstanding Americans as yourself... "What do OBL's whereabouts have to do with Al-Zarqawi?" Are you kidding? Al-Zarqawi will have to work into the next decade to kill as many Americans as OBL has, but you don't seem too worried about that...is George telling you it doesn't matter? Only a traitor would say that, and only a fool would buy it...

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#8)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:21 PM EST
    perhaps you prefer the good old days when he was able to do so.
    Why the hell would anyone but a Neocon wish for that? OBL only showed up when Bush most needed him. Remember the Halloween scare two days before the election??

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:22 PM EST
    come to think of it, they have never been photographed together. do you think .....?

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#11)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:23 PM EST
    Yeah, it is kind of funny that most wrong wingers cannot see what BushCo has done.Or is doing.Or will do. Look around, and tell yourself with a straight face that the world is better now. It's not. It's the same. It will never change. OBL should have been captured by now, I for one feel he isn't even real anymore. He was, and is, a figment of some delightfully wicked PR mans imagination. BushCo played this crap so hard, that it is no wonder we don't care that we bumped another into a leadership role... We change leadership on almost a daily basis in this country, we don't fall down and drool on our shoes now do we? Why should AQ? Don't worry , we will win the war on these brown people, but remember, it took many many many years to destroy the brown people on this continent... And we had guns and they had bows and arrows.

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:23 PM EST
    Again race when Islam and its fanatical components are a religion. three posts painting the other side as heroic and likening the war on terror to a neocon(zionist?) conspiracy. I think thats a record.

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#13)
    by kdog on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:24 PM EST
    The war on terror is no conspiracy, it's just a joke, an excuse to drop bombs and buy more bombs. You can't win a war against a tactic, the same as you can't win a war against an inanimate object, i.e. drugs. war on terror? may as well be a war on coconuts.

    Re: Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi (none / 0) (#14)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:24 PM EST
    you are right on terminology-it is a war against Islamic extremism. the president should have been honest from the start.

    Al Qaeda Names Replacement for al Zarqawi | 13 comments (13 topical)