Looks like Zarqawi has ticked a whole lot of people off:
At least 200,000 persons demonstrated yesterday against the recent bombings of three luxury hotels, while a new online statement attributed to terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi defended the attacks and threatened to cut off the head of Jordan's King Abdullah II.
An anti-terrorist demonstration of such size is unprecedented in the Arab world, where Zarqawi, his mentor, Osama bin Laden, and their al Qaeda organization have attained folk-hero status among Muslim masses.
"Zarqawi, from Amman, we say to you: 'You are a coward,' " protesters chanted while brandishing banners with the names of their tribes from every part of Jordan.
When Egyptians attempted to hold an anti-terrorism protest there after their recent bombing, authorities halted it. This large demonstration in Jordan could happen because it's much more of an open society; and also because Zarqawi said he's going to cut the King's head off.
UPDATE
Zarqawi's tribe renounces him. His beheading Iraqis didn't rate such censure, but blowing up Jordanians- that's just going too far.
UPDATE II
Zarqawi dead?
At least one Arab television media outlet reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of the al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed in Iraq on Sunday afternoon when eight terrorists blew themselves up in the in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
The unconfirmed report claimed that the explosions occurred after coalition forces surrounded the house in which al-Zarqawi was hiding.
Here's hoping.
(Via FR.)
Posted by floridacracker at November 19, 2005 07:38 AM