Intially the previously unshown events in the newly released uncut version of the captured Zarqawi video amused me.
I have to admit I take some dark glee from the murderous bastard fumbling with a machine gun which had jammed and he clearly did not know how to clear the stoppage.
Even funnier was the member of his "posse" attempting to help, by grabbing it's red hot barrel. Believe me this is a mistake only the newest and greenest military recuits make. Even then it is a mistake that is only done once. I personally made the mistake of allowing my finger to slip into one of the cooling holes in the foregrip of an M-16 while in training. My finger touched the gas return tube. I spent the next couple of days nursing that finger. It is a mistake I will NEVER repeat.
But Zarqawi does know how to pull a trigger and to order subordinates to behead hostages.
His incompetent weapons handling skills do not negate his fierce hatred and his desire to see Americans killed. I just don't want anyone to dismiss this man as a total idiot. In fact his incompetence with a weapon makes him all the scarier...at least it should, especially to the other terrorists standing next to him when he has access to a gun.
It has also been reported that the athletic shoes he was wearing in the video were a pair of New Balance shoes. Perhaps we could woo him to put down the guns and become a paid spokesperson for New Balance. But he may prove incompetent at that as well.
Maybe he could just get a job stocking shelves in the Foot Locker store down at the local shopping mall. Certainly he should not have access to women's shoes since I am told they can be used as a implement of torture and anything over a three inch spiked heel can considered a deadly weapon.
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