Al Qaeda. They’re not just evil.
At his weekly media briefing, Lynch showed brief clips from what he said was the unedited video showing Zarqawi, wearing New Balance running shoes, struggling to handle the machine gun he was shown firing in the version posted on the Internet and aired on television. Another clip appears to show his aides grabbing the gun’s hot muzzle and fumbling with it after he had finished.
Each clip lasted only a few seconds and Lynch did not say how much more footage there was.
“So what you saw on the Internet was what he wanted the world to see ‘look at me. I am a capable leader of a capable organization and we are indeed declaring war against democracy in Iraq’,” Lynch said. “What he didn’t show you were the clips that I showed you: wearing New Balance sneakers with his uniform, surrounded by supposedly competent subordinates who grab the hot barrel of a just-fired machine gun, … a warrior leader, Zarqawi, who doesn’t understand how to operate his weapons system.
“It makes you wonder.”
They’re also stupid. Yep. Makes you wonder.