How did Zarqawi survive?

[SHRED]

Even for a short while?
Are we to believe that 1000 pounds of laser guided high explosives would leave a building even partially intact?
How large was this building?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. This administration lied about everything

How am I supposed to believe anything at all this administration tells? It's criminal, it's pathological in its incessant lying, but now I'm supposed to believe Al Zarqawi suddenly got caught when Bush's numbers are down to the bottom? Uh... NO.

[Terran1212]

2. We'll know the truth in about 30 years

When the last documents on this war get unveiled/declassified and we understand the true extent to all the lies we were told.

[Skidmore]

3. Remember there were people who survived the nuclear blasts

in Japan. Hard to tell but people do survive some amazing disasters and accidents. So he survived...how he died should be the question.

[deFaultLine]

4. Maybe...

he was not actually in the building or he was in a bunker or basement.

[lpbk2713]

5. Saddam was found in something that would serve as a bomb shelter.

Maybe it was or was not designed for that purpose. If al-Zarq was hiding in a protective shelter does that mean he had a brief advance notice of the air strike? Is there a mole in CentCom or DoD? Is that why Boosh hasn't been able to find OBL? {tongue in cheek off/}


:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[Poppyseedman]

6. Since he is a figment of Rummy's psychological ops program

Zarqawi never existed.............at least that what I am told by some members of this board. :crazy:

[Marr]

7. Have you noticed how all their propaganda reads like a cheesy WW2 flick?

Jessica Lynch firing until her gun barrel is red hot, then fighting with her bare hands and being overcome. Pat Tilman's Captain America-style fight, etc. There have been others.

We're to believe that everyone else in the building died in the explosion, but Zarqawi lived long enough to try to scramble off the gurney to escape his righteous pursuers, then mouthed a little "curses!" before expiring. It's melodrama, and it smells like all their other bullshit spin stories.

I believe the guy is dead. But I also believe he was largely a marketing tool created by the Bush Administration to begin with, and this extremely unlikely story is just a continuation of that ham-handed marketing.

[Igel]

8. One hint came from an article that described how

strong at least one of the bombs was, and how huge the crater was that it made in the date palm grove next to the house.

The last four words sum in up.

That apparently was the first bomb; why use two when one will do? By then, the peace-loving, compassionate, humanitarian soul that was Zarqawi, lover of children and small animals (at least when there were no women or large animals around), was rushing to do the door, pushing others out of his way as necessary to make sure himself was safe.

[deFaultLine]

9. In any other place...

he would have just been a small time serial killer. The guy liked killing for it's own sake and got a thrill out of it.

Note that he had been recently demoted...

[Moochy]

10. True Grit

The best that the terrorists could do couldnt stand up to our shiny gleaming killing machines.

Flex our ego, beat our chest, and be proud! 500 LB bomb, we love you!!!

[Asgaya Dihi]

11. We don't know, maybe never will

If he was inside it doesn't make sense to me either, but it's possible that he was outside. Someone posted quote in another thread that suggested of the two bombs the first had hit just outside the house. Maybe he ran when that hit, or maybe he started outside.

If either of those were true it makes more sense, rather than the full force of the blast and shrapnel he'd have taken more concussion damage which gives the bruising and internal damage so slower death.