Does "Zarqawi" Really Exist?

• Not a single source has seen him since 2001

The Bush administration has attributed the bulk of the Iraqi resistance to a character named "Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi." There are many people asking the legitimate question, does Zarqawi even exist? Given the credibility of Bush and company -- the people who brought us phantom weapons of mass destruction, false links between Saddam and bin Laden, forged uranium documents, and a stack of other untruths -- there is little reason to accept Bush's super-boogeyman on faith alone. As pointed out in the Asia Times (Oct. 15, 2004): "Not a single source, anywhere, claims to have actually seen ?Zarqawi' since late 2001 in Afghanistan. Ask the Pentagon. Ask the CIA. Ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation. No one, on the record, is able to independently verify that ?Zarqawi' actually exists." Mainstream US corporate media has not challenged the administration on this point, nor on most of the other lies, distortions, omissions or obvious international crimes they have committed. Rather Reuters, ABC, and Washington Post have uncritically raised the phantom warrior to the status of a "Zarqawi movement." Never mind they haven't made the case for Zarqawi the person, alive and breathing. [more]