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Iraq’s Al-Queda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi – where is he?
Where is he really? Is this man again a piece of history like Osama Bin Laden? Like Bin Laden will his shadow survive while his reality is unknown forever?
The whole world and security apparatus in Iraq in trying to find an answer for this question.
Every part of international news media is participating in predictions and rumors games.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mastermind of numerous attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces in Iraq, has allegedly fled to a "non-Arab country" following a shrapnel injury to his chest suffered in a U.S. airstrike on his convoy three weeks ago, the Sunday Times reported on May 29th.
A message on an Islamist Web site said on May 25 that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, has left Iraq for a "neighboring country" for treatment of a gunshot wound to the lung. The statement claimed that al-Zarqawi was smuggled out of Iraq and treated by Arab doctors for a gunshot to his right lung, and is now in stable condition. The message's authenticity could not be verified, and was denied on another Web site used by militants.
But Iraq's al Qaeda said on Sunday its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading an offensive against U.S. and Iraqi forces in response to a crackdown on insurgents, according to an Internet statement. "Our brigades and squadrons have embarked on an offensive led by Sheikh of the Mujahideen Abu Musab al-Zarqawi under his planning and supervision," the statement said.
"This incursion is in response to the futile plan announced by Defense and Interior Ministers to seal off Baghdad," it added. The group said last week that Zarqawi was wounded but issued a statement on Friday asserting he was in good health and was back leading operations in Iraq.
The U.S. military said on Sunday it believes Zarqawi has been wounded. "In these hours your brothers in the Al Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq are launching successive attacks on the Crusaders and their (Iraqi) tails," said Sunday's statement signed by the group's spokesman Abu Maysarah al-Iraqi.
It could not be immediately authenticated. Iraqi forces launched their biggest security crackdown since the fall of Saddam Hussein with the start of Operation Lightning on Sunday, a sweep by 40,000 Iraqi troops who will seal off Baghdad and hunt for insurgents. The crackdown comes after a sharp increase in suicide bombings and ambushes by insurgents who have killed around 700 people in the past month since a new Shi''ite Islamist-led government was announced.
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