Propaganda Found In Zarqawi's Lair
By Michael Georgy
The Age.com - Australia
6-10-6
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was accompanied by women
who wore skimpy night clothing, and read magazines on current affairs
and militant propaganda.
An inspection of the remains of the "safe
house" in which the terrorist mastermind was killed also suggested that
he and his companions - which an Iraqi army officer said included two
women and an eight-year-old girl - lived with few luxuries.
The US military took reporters to the site in
the village of Hibhib, near the town of Baquba north of Baghdad, three
days after the death of the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, who is blamed for
beheading hostages and killings hundreds of people in suicide bombings.
At the site surrounded by palm groves, two
thin foam mattresses were scattered among the debris of smashed concrete
and twisted metal. There were few clues on Zarqawi's extreme ideology or
the militant groups he was linked to in the rubble of the building that
was pulverised by two 227-kilo bombs in a US air strike on Wednesday.
One leaflet identified a radio station in
Latifiya south of the capital as an apparent target. A few metres away
was a magazine picture of former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Also beside the slabs of concrete was a
woman's leopard skin nightgown and other skimpy women's clothes.
The US military had said the air strike killed
six people, three males and three females.
It said on Friday that a wounded Zarqawi was
still alive when US troops reached the site but died shortly afterwards.
DNA tests confirming Zarqawi's identity are
likely to be completed in two days, the US military said.
