The Zarqawi Phenomenon

al-Zarqawi is a real person. Or maybe was. No one will go on record as saying anything substantial about him and his past is even more is even more sketchy. Dahr Jamail set forth to Jordan, to where Zarqawi grew up in search of anyone who knew him. This is what he wrote:

The Zarqawi Phenomenon
By Dahr Jamail
TomDispatch

Wednesday 06 July 2005

A remarkable proportion of the violence taking place in Iraq is regularly credited to the Jordanian Ahmad al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and his organization Al Qaeda in Iraq. Sometimes it seems no car bomb goes off, no ambush occurs that isn't claimed in his name or attributed to him by the Bush administration. Bush and his top officials have, in fact, made good use of him, lifting his reputed feats of terrorism to epic, even mythic, proportions (much aided by various mainstream media outlets). Given that the invasion and occupation of Iraq has now been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be based upon administration lies and manipulations, I had begun to wonder if the vaunted Zarqawi even existed.

In Amman, where I was recently based, random interviews with Jordanians only generated more questions and no answers about Zarqawi. As it happens, though, the Jordanian capital is just a short cab ride from Zarqa, the city Zarqawi is said to be from. So I decided to slake my curiosity about him by traveling there and nosing around his old neighborhood.

"Zarqawi, I don't even know if he exists," said a scruffy taxi driver in Amman and his was a typical comment. "He's like Bin Laden, we don't even know if he exists; but if he does, I support that he fights the U.S. occupation of Iraq."
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I can't believe there are no comments on this.

Is it too deep (In the Pink Floyd vernacular)?

"The Americans are using him for their propaganda," he insisted. "Think about it -- with all of their power and intelligence capabilities -- they cannot find one man?"

the reason is that he is just like Osama, where he hides himself well that we cant find him. im sure u as in the military, that we depend too much on electronic intel then on human intelligence. he is real, but he is smarter to hide his face that currently is different from his past photos, of course he accidentally left his labtop since his life is more important than the labtop in the truck. in anicase thats how i see it.