VIDEO: Recruiting Terror: The Zarqawi blooper reel

Posted by Jim Stroud
May 10, 2006

The U.S. command in Iraq yesterday attempted to puncture the invincible aura of Abu Musab Zarqawi by showing a captured videotape of the terror leader fumbling with a machine gun and surrounded by bumbling aides.

 

At his weekly press briefing in Baghdad, Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch aired the outtakes of Zarqawi’s most recent Internet recruitment ad, which had depicted him in warrior splendor.

 

The blooper tape has Zarqawi, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq and organizer of mass-death suicide bombings, clumsily trying to move a machine gun into rapid-fire mode.

 

“He looks down. Can’t figure it out,” Gen. Lynch said, identifying the terror master’s footwear as New Balance tennis shoes. It was obtained in a raid of a foreign fighter safe house.

 

Finally, a lieutenant walks over and unjams the gun. Zarqawi fires into the open desert.

 

Source: U.S. airs video of Zarqawi bloopers

 

See it for yourself!

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