NYT: At Site of Attack on Zarqawi, All That's Left Are Questions
Along with the scraps, it was mostly questions that remained.
Chief among them was how Mr. Zarqawi, the terrorist leader killed Wednesday in the airstrike, could have survived for even a few minutes after the attack, as American officers say he did, when everything else around him was obliterated. Concrete blocks, walls, a fence, tin cans, palm trees, a washing machine: everything at the Hibhib scene was shredded or blown to pieces.
It seemed puzzling, too, given the destruction and the condition of the other bodies, how Mr. Zarqawi's head and upper body — shown on televisions across the world — could have remained largely intact.
Full Article, New York Times, June 11, 2006
Interesting article. As of 11:20 p.m. PST, it doesn't appear on the home page of the NYT website. It doesn't question whether it was actually Zarqawi that was killed. But that the NYT raises questions at all, the above and more, given its performance the past 4 1/2 years, is a welcome sight.
TLC
Chief among them was how Mr. Zarqawi, the terrorist leader killed Wednesday in the airstrike, could have survived for even a few minutes after the attack, as American officers say he did, when everything else around him was obliterated. Concrete blocks, walls, a fence, tin cans, palm trees, a washing machine: everything at the Hibhib scene was shredded or blown to pieces.
It seemed puzzling, too, given the destruction and the condition of the other bodies, how Mr. Zarqawi's head and upper body — shown on televisions across the world — could have remained largely intact.
Full Article, New York Times, June 11, 2006
Interesting article. As of 11:20 p.m. PST, it doesn't appear on the home page of the NYT website. It doesn't question whether it was actually Zarqawi that was killed. But that the NYT raises questions at all, the above and more, given its performance the past 4 1/2 years, is a welcome sight.
TLC
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