So Zarqawi is now officially supposed to be dead.
As everybody will remember:
One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, said that Kimmitt had concluded that, "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date."
According to the legend, Zarqawi was a member of Ansar al-Islam, a small terrorist group in the Kurdish north of Iraq. That group and its well known camp was never bothered by U.S. forces, who had control of the region.
The one-legged, later on two-legged Zarqawi was useful as a bogeyman and as the one presumed guilty for any and all attrocies in Iraq. There was no need to look elsewhere for evildoers, as everything could be put to his and his comrades name.
Any
shepard captured or killed by U.S. forces was advertised to have been a Zarqawi operative, which prompted me to provide a make your own newsrelease for such successes.
After it became obvious knowledge that Zarqawi was a psycholgical operation figure, the endless stream of killed Zarqawi aids stopped flowing and, in May, for the first time a Zarqawi video appeared. It showed a hapless man who did not even know how to handle his weapon. The U.S. military, as obviously planed, made fun of him being so incapable.
But that campaign did not help anything either. So now it was time to finally bury him.
For Maleki and the occupation force, this success is urgently needed as the Iraqi cabinet is still incomplete is only just completed and the security situation is getting worse by the day.
What success is easier to get, than to burn a fictive agent who had become unusable for any other purpose anyhow?
But only the U.S. public will be fooled by this and only for a few news cycle.
For the Iraqis living in Iraq nothing has changed. The electricity will not be there, the water will not flow and the pointless killing will not stop.
