Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in the world behind Usama bin Laden, is being hunted down, day by day. Yesterday, we got his number two, Abu Azzam.
But The Times of London's slant is nothing short of breathtaking: they say that Azzam's death was a "betrayal."
Al-Qaeda's No 2 in Iraq is shot dead after betrayal
AN AL-QAEDA commander claimed by the Americans to be the group’s second-in-command in Iraq has been shot dead in a raid on his safe house, the US military said yesterday.
Abu Azzam, a financier and religious aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and leader of al-Qaeda’s operations in Baghdad, was killed by American and Iraqi special forces while sheltering in a block of flats, having apparently been betrayed by an al-Qaeda insider.
Aw, shucks...this poor Islamic slug was "betrayed."
Let's raise some money for him, because I am tearing up at his demise. Yep.