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wonder if the basket of heads was
the tipoff.
Seventeen severed heads were
found in fruit boxes last week in the
Iraqi province of Diyala, and on June
8 a framed photograph of Al Qaeda
leader Abu-Musab al Zarqawi's dead
head was on display to the world.
Al Zarqawi became infamous as
the thug and butcher who personally
beheaded innocent civilians, includ-
ing Nicholas Berg of West Chester, Pa.,
and Eugene Armstrong, formerly of
Hillsdale, Mich. He then posted his acts
on the Web for the world to
see. He's also responsible for
the sectarian violence that
has caused thousands of
Iraqi deaths.
Whether you call him ter-
rorist, insurgent, freedom
fighter or Dad, it takes a
certain type of sociopath
to behead someone with a
knife.
After reportedly following
Al Zarqawi's spiritual advis-
er, Sheik Abdul Rahman, for
a few days to a but in Iraq's "severed
head" zone, a special ops group of
Navy Seals and Delta Force members
known as Task Force 145 called in the
coordinates.
Moments later, two 500-pound
bombs took out the sheik/sociopath
and six others.
"Zarqawi has met his end and this
violent man will never murder again:'
President Bush said from the White
House later that morning.
Al Qaeda was just as ecstatic, post-
ing a statement on the Web.
"We want to give you the joyous
news of the martyrdom of the muja-
hed sheik Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," the
statement read. "The death of our lead-
ers is life for us. It will only increase
our persistence in continuing holy
war so that the word of God will be
supreme."
Al Qaeda loves the Internet for
making statements from caves, and al
Zarqawi loved using it to recruit new
members to jihad.
He collaborated with a London
man named Younis Tsouli, who ran Al
Qaeda-linked Web sites that encour-
aged American and Canadian Muslims
to form terror cells.
British authorities pinched Tsouli —
a.k.a. his Internet screen name Irhabi
(Terrorist) 007 — in October, and it

led to the arrests of 17 Canadians last
week.
Five juveniles and 12 men were
rounded up by authorities on various
charges, including belonging to a ter-
rorist group, plotting to bomb several
unidentified buildings in Canada,
running training camps, and trying to
smuggle weapons across the border
from the United States.
A partial list of the accused are
— Qayyaum Abdul Jamal, 43; Steven
Vikash Chand, 25; Fahim Ahmad,
21; Mohammed Dirie, 22; and Yasim
Abdi Mohamed, 24; all of
Toronto.
They've been under
investigation for over
a year, and officials
announced that they were
arrested after acquiring
three tons of ammonium
nitrate, normally used in
large quantities by farm-
ers for fertilizer.
Only one ton was
mixed with fuel oil to
produce the devastation in
Oklahoma City.
If your name is Abdul, Mohammed
or Fahim, and you just ordered three
tons of ammonium nitrate for delivery
to downtown Toronto, how do you not
know that you've just raised some red
flags? But that's what happens when
you recruit on teroristjobs.com .
One suspect, Steven Chand, a res-
taurant worker, also told officials he
planned to take over the Canadian
Broadcasting Corp., seize Parliament
and — in homage to al Zarqawi,
perhaps? — lop off Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper's head.
Tired of Hockey Night, Steven?
Move to a country with warm-weather
sports. Don't try to terrorize television
networks because they refuse to show
the Burka-Beach Volleyball League.
Task Force 145 won't collect the $25
million bounty on al Zarqawi, but after
a couple of beers will probably board
a cargo plane and join Task Force 121
along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
to save the United States from its No. 1
enemy, Osama bin Laden.
The war on terror is far from over,
but it was a good week for the good
guys. ❑

Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is

hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.com .

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