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Originally posted by fastpat
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2220222,00.html

A 5 pager.......................

Once the soldiers had established the man was not a threat, they started to kick him in the chest, said Abbas and an Iraqi policeman also there. “They kept kicking him, shouting, ‘What’s your name?’, but the man only moaned and said nothing,” said Abbas...................The US military’s account differs from the Iraqis in only one important detail. According to a US spokesman, army medics tried to save Zarqawi’s life.

“He attempted to roll off the stretcher, I am told, and get away, realising it was the US military,” Major-General William Caldwell, a spokesman for the coalition forces in Iraq, said. “Everybody re-secured him back onto the stretcher, but he died almost immediately.” .............In the end it was Iraq that turned on him. In recent weeks he had been squeezed out of one safe haunt after another as ordinary Iraqis grew sick of his killing.................Privately British officials also sought to play down the news. “It will probably have less impact than everybody wishes,” said one senior military source.

Task Force 77, go Steel Tigers.

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