| Be still my beating heart. |
Sheikh Jawad Al Kalesi, the imam of the al-Kazemiya mosque in Baghdad, told Le Monde newspaper: âI donât think that Abu Musab Al Zarqawi exists as such. Heâs simply an invention by the occupiers to divide the people.â
Kalesi claimed that Zarqawi was killed in the Kurdish northern region of Iraq at the beginning of the US-led war on the country as he was meeting with members of the Ansar Al-Islam group affiliated to Al Qaeda. âHis family in Jordan even held a ceremony after his death. Abu Musab Al Zarqawi is therefore a ploy used by the Americans, an excuse to continue the occupation. Itâs a pretext so they donât leave Iraq.â
| "He's a ghost, an apparition, though as good Moose-limbs we don't believe in that sort of thing." |