Cleric says al-Zarqawi died long ago


Saturday 17 September 2005, 8:12 Makka Time, 5:12 GMT


Al-Kalesi said al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq's Kurdish region


Al-Qaida's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead but Washington continues to use him as a bogeyman to justify a prolonged military occupation, an Iraqi Shia cleric says in an interview.



Sheikh Jawad al-Kalesi, the imam of the al-Kadhimiyah mosque in Baghdad, told France's Le Monde newspaper on Friday: "I don't think that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi exists as such. He's simply an invention by the occupiers to divide the people."
-from Aljazeera

Al Jazeera

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As their PR problem grows, the lies become more desperate.