All over the media; television, radio, the print press & yes, the Internet, praises are sung of the death of the “monster Al-Zarqawi”.  The pundits are frothing!  Shall it be a political advantage for Bush, will he rise in the polls by 3 points or 5?  The details of our clever military intelligence are poured over.  It is a triumph akin to the capture of Saddam, the “fall” of Bagdhad and “Mission Accomplished”. And yet as C Quil has noted above there is another element to the story that is as yet being little mentioned (although Pat Buchanan brought it up on “The McLaughlin Report”).  The media should indeed be covering the MIRACLE of ZARQAWI!  How was it that his body survived IN TACT the bombing of a house with 1000 pounds of explosives??? An explosion that shattered concrete, wood & metal whereas Mr. Zarqawi only needed to have some blood washed off to make him presentable for the general’s presentation of this extraordinary story to the world.  Instead of being blown to bits or at the very least to a bloody pulp we are being asked to believe that Al-Zarqawi just needed a little touch-up & he was ready for his close up. He even managed a little croak at the finish (like a Rennaissance goose that had been roasted alive which when set upon the table managed a last feeble honk before expiring, to the delight of the assembled diners).  Who wrote this script anyway?  It’s more B-grade Hollywood coming out of an Administration that is too low grade for a letter rating.  And yet the media and press sail through it all trumpeting the “official story” their manicured fingers tapping out the information from the press releases handed to them, their busy mouths sending the propaganda out to the far corners of the earth when instead they should be shouting from the rooftops, “IT’S A MIRACLE!!”, “IT’S A MIRACLE!!”

“Back in Hibhib, Mr. Ismael again noticed something strange. Of the three GMC trucks that had pulled up to the house in the date palm grove, only two stayed. One of them drove away and never came back.

Whether the departing GMC contained the source who tipped off the Americans about Mr. Zarqawi’s location is unknown.”

There are people who think that Zarqawi has been dead for ages, and the myth of his continued existence explains the chaos in Iraq. The powers that be may have kept his body on ice somewhere and then made it miraculously appear like a rabbit out of a hat.

Was that what was in the third truck? If he was frozen, he’d take a few days to thaw out, as it would be pretty difficult to explain a corpse with icicles on it.

The test, of course, would be for the people who took custody of the body to see if if went through rigor mortis in the first day after death. That only happens once.

The authorities made sure to mention that he was alive when they found him, that he had muttered something, and then died. With a coup as important as this, where is the video? They’ve taken pictures of everything else.