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Let me see if I have this straight. As we continue to level Fallujah, a story comes across the Associated Press written by Maggie Michael, "Al-Zarqawi Headquarters Found in Iraq". It seems that as we continue the liberation of Fallujah we came across what was deemed to be the command center of the insurgency, run, of course, by Al-Qaida.
How do we know this? Well, let me quote the article: "According to CNN's footage, the suspected al-Zarqawi command center was in an imposing house with concrete columns and a large sign in Arabic reading 'Al-Qaida Organization' and 'There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger.'"
What? No neon? Inside the house the U.S. soldiers found "documents, old computers, notebooks, photographs and copies of the Quran. Several bodies also were found."
So here is this organization, the world's most high-profile terrorist group (whether it actually exists or not), sought world-wide with tens of millions of sinking U.S. dollars as bounty. We have had no success in tracking down these insurgent terrorist evil barbarian brutal murderers in spite of all of the above. Oh, I forgot, W., Dick, Condoleeza and Donald said we had killed or captured 70% of them. Anyway, this shady, secretive, subterranean, sneaky bunch has been hard to get a handle on.
So in Falluja the headquarters has a "large sign"? A "treasure trove" of information is found lying about? Letters from al-Zarqawi are left unmailed, for all the world to read? Is there a postal service in Iraq?
What gives here? Let me make a number of observations: (1) This Al-Qaida is the most bumbling bunch since Inspector Gadget. You mean they can't burn stuff or otherwise destroy it? Maybe since they only had six months warning that this was coming they had to leave in a hurry? (2) Assuming this story is true, does this mean we can't even find them when they put a sign on the house? Even if the sign is in the house, don't you think someone might rat them out? Why would they put a sign on or in the house anyway? Did we try calling information? (3) If they are that dumb, and we are that dumb, will this thing ever end?
Can this story be for real?
If so, what's next? Maybe something along these lines: "Osama bin Laden discovered living in Manhattan with Liza Minnelli."
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