[Mb-civic] Who Is Zarqawi?

[Mike Blaxill]

Good question! You can click the link below for a
little speculation by mainstream blogger Josh
Marshall
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007098.php

an excerp...

What do we know exactly about Abu Musab Zarqawi?

According to various news accounts he is the
chief jihadist/insurgent in Iraq. He is the head
of the Iraqi 'branch' of al Qaida, the local
subsidiary. Responsibility for numerous bombings
and atrocities has been ascribed to him; or, in
other cases, he, his supporters, or those
speaking for him seem happy to take
responsibility themselves.

But it is hard not to see this information in the
light of the fairly constant tendency through the
War on Terror to build up varous Terrorist
Masterminds, who become the focus of most or all
news reportage, then trail off into nothing. Not
infrequently, they have an uncanny resemblance to
characters out of 1984. And with Zarqawi
particularly there is a welter of contradictory
and often difficult-to-credit information about
him that invites further suspicion...