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From: Andrew S. MacGregor - ama18870@bigpond.net.au
Sent: Saturday, 10 June 2006 12:25 PM
Subject: Joe Vialls was right.

 

Joe Vialls was right.

 

Joe Vialls has always stated that the Port Arthur Massacre was a Mossad operation.  I have always denied that scenario because there was never any know links  between the Port Arthur Massacre and the Israeli Intelligence organisation known as Mossad.

 

However, this latest ground-breaking news from the 'Shooters News' site, brings into focus that on the point of Mossad involvement in the Port Arthur Massacre, as per Joe Vialls, Joe was right and I was wrong.

 

You see Joe Vialls was also at one stage known as Ari Ben Menashe, and even wrote a book titled 'Profits of War' under that name.  What this book was about, was the supposed autobiography of the author, Ari Ben Menashe, or Joe Vialls if you prefer, and his involvement in certain Mossad and other Israeli covert operations throughout the world.  In other words Ari ben Menashe boasted of his exploits as an Israeli intelligence agent, prior to his settling in Australia as a last point of refuge.  Ari ben Menashe then becomes Joe Vialls, and whether or not the name Vialls originated from birth or from some later stage in life, all Australians were introduced to Ari ben Menashe as Joe Vialls.

 

Joe Vialls' understandings of the Port Arthur massacre were unique and comprehensive to the extreme.  Joe Vialls even had knowledge of the actual gunman that was denied to all other Australians.  He demonstrated this knowledge when after reading Graeme Collyer's police statement, and referring to the remarks made by Graeme that the gunman had a pitted or ance-marked face, and Joe stated, "no, not acne, chicken-pox".  The question was always, "How could Joe differentiate without knowledge of what Graeme Collyer actually saw and remarked about?"

 

But now, Shooters News has revealed just how Joe Vialls, or Ari ben Menashe actually had that information.  Joe Vialls was actually at the Port Arthur Historic Site at the time of the massacre and was involved with others known to be employed by the Australian government at that time.

 

Now let us go back to Joe's statements that the Port Arthur Massacre was a Mossad Covert Operation.  How would Joe have known about this as most of the operatives involved in the massacre were Australians.  The answer is easy.  The Port Arthur massacre was run by a Mossad agent by the name of Ari ben Menashe, or for Australians, Joe Vialls.  That is why Joe would have been on the verandah of the Broad Arrow Cafe after the event, because things had gone so badly wrong and Australia had lost 7 Intelligence operatives.  There was an emergency meeting of the top surviving operatives to discuss the problems and how they were to be overcome.  That Shooters News has now named Hans Overbeeke, Constable Justin Noble of the BCI (Bureau of Criminal Intelligence) and Joe Vialls as the persons holding that emergency meeting.  If this is factual, then just what position did Joe Vialls hold during the massacre?  Please remember that Joe Vialls has always stated that the massacre was a 'Mossad covert operation', and since Joe was the only known Mossad member of these three men, then the only position Joe could have held was that he was in overall command at Port Arthur.

 

And that explains rather simply just how Joe knew that the Port Arthur Massacre was in fact a Mossad covert operation, because he ran it.

 

Andrew S. MacGregor


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RACIAL HISTORY

 Ancient Aryans discovered in China

BEIJING — In a find that could turn conventional history on its head, scientists using genetic testing have discovered that Caucasians lived in western China's Tarim Basin a thousand years before East Asians arrived.

Unearthed lying on her side as though in sleep, a single tuft of red hair falling across her head and ragged moccasins on her feet, the Beauty of Loulan is considered to be one of the best preserved mummies ever found.

Roughly 3800-years-old and discovered in the sands of Xinjiang province in western China, her emaciated features betray a facial bone structure that is surprisingly similar to Caucasian-looking women.

A team of American and Chinese researchers working in a laboratory in Sweden used DNA samples to date and profile her mummy, confirming she and other mummies are of Indo-European descent.

Project leader Victor Mair told Aljazeera.net his work on helping to fill in the genetic jigsaw puzzle of human migration is "extremely important because they link up eastern and western Eurasia at a formative stage of civilization (Bronze Age and Early Iron Age) in a much closer way than has ever been done before."

Central Asian migrants

A professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, Mair and his researchers now believe that the mummies' ancestors migrated from Central Asia into the Tarim Basin approximately 5000 years ago.
 
Crossing the forbidding Pamir Mountains, which border modern-day Pakistan and China, they then settled on the edge of the basin before slowly fanning out across the Taklamakan desert.

In more recent times the location for China's nuclear weapons tests, Mair wrote, "the fact people can subsist in the Tarim Basin at all is due to their intrepidity and adaptability."

Though inhospitable, the dry atmosphere and alkaline soils are a key factor in the preservation of hundreds of mummies discovered there since the 1970s, including the extremely well-preserved 3000-year-old Cherchen Man.

Nationalist mummies?

First investigating the mummies in the late 1980s when he came across them in a museum in Xinjiang, it was only recently that Mair was allowed to remove bone samples for testing overseas.

Earlier tests on the clothing of the mummies had already linked the particular twill weave of their garments to similar textile designs found in ancient tombs in central Europe. 

But what was still needed was a DNA test to confirm everyone's suspicions.

Often hesitant to let foreign researchers take archeological remnants out of the country after witnessing the pillaging of national monuments by foreign troops and archeologists in the 19th century, the Chinese government has also been reluctant to release the samples for fears they would bolster the claims of Uighur groups seeking independence from China.

 

 

 

Though unlikely candidates for nationalistic ping-pong balls, the almost 4000-year-old corpses have become a symbol for activists hoping to discredit China's claim to the region.

In 2004, Chinese scientists at Jilin University in eastern China also concluded that the mummies' DNA came from Indo-Europeans, and not East Asians.

Dru Gladney, a Xinjiang specialist at the University of Hawaii, told Aljazeera.net that when the mummies were first found, "Uighur nationalists hoped this would irrefutably document that they were the indigenous peoples of Xinjiang rather than the Chinese."

"In terms of contemporary nationalism it really is irrelevant. Chinese claims are from the Han dynasty while Uighurs want to claim direct descent from the Uighur kingdom. It is always fallacious to use these kinds of materials to substantiate contemporary claims," he adds.

Politics

Campaigning for an independent East Turkestan — a reference to a short period in modern history when the region declared independence from China — Uighur websites have claimed the mummies as the forefathers to a Uighur kingdom founded in the seventh century BC in an area now straddling modern-day Mongolia and Xinjiang.

Uighur activists believe the mummies undermine China's ties to the region, which Beijing says were cemented as far back as the Han Dynasty, (206 BC-AD 220).

Comparing the mummies' DNA with that of present day inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, Mair found the modern-day Uighur, Kazakh and Kirghiz ethnic groups did carry some genetic similarities with the mummies, but "no direct links."

"Central Asia is a zone of admixture, not a heartland or reservoir for genetic diversity," wrote Mair.

Science beats politics

An apparent victory for science over politics, in recent years a cooling of rhetoric over the nationalistic relevance of 4000-year-old human remains has meant that scientists have been able to carry out further tests. 

Writing how "any attempt at a serious and impartial inquiry into the origins and identity of the mummies must simply remain oblivious to such tendentiousness and calumniation," Mair told Aljazeera.net that earlier attempts to take samples had met with resistance.

On one trip collecting 52 samples from the mummies, officials suddenly changed their minds and would only permit him to take five out of the country.

Mair says much still remains unknown about the mummies' backgrounds and is hoping with the lifting of political red tape, he may finally unlock mysteries buried for thousands of years.

FOR ILLUSTRATIONS SEE: 
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/287BAEC9-50D2-47D5-AAA7-A1EFA044B590.htm
 

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From: patrick@fps.chuo-u.ac.jp

Sent: Saturday, 10 June 2006 12:10 PM

Zionist Treason, Judaic Racism, Semitist Racism, and Jooish Filth

 

The Four Freedoms: A Humanist Manifesto

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"We will stop telling truths about Jews, when they stop telling lies about us." [German Prisoner of Zion, i.e. imprisoned by Zionists]

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Today's political threats and challenges demand a revaluation and innovative solutions to the new dangers. The old Atlantic Charter's four freedoms have to be updated to: freedom from Zionist treason, Judaic racism, Semitist lies, and Jooish filth.

 

These four are the main threats facing all mankind today: blacks, whites, yellows, browns, whatever color. Particularly in the JewAssA, whites have to ally with blacks before they both go down the toilet together.

 

Throughout the world a broad and deep Christian-Muslim popular front against the Self-Chosen tribe is urgently needed.

 

1. Zionist treason: Finally the issue of zio-treason in American briefly and faintly appeared on the mainstream radar screen with the Mearsheimer-Walt [M-W] paper, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." Because the M-W paper could not be ignored, Israel's multi-pronged fifth column joosmedia went on their highest alert state ["berserk"]. Public off-Internet discussion seems to have been quickly shut down, so it is hard to assess the extent of the PR damage suffered by the zio-traitors.

 

However, the effectiveness of the fifth column's attacks on the M-W paper goes to prove the truth of the M-W thesis, i.e. it is impossible to have a rational, extended discussion about Israel's Trojan Horse in the heart of the JewAssA. Congratulations to berserk zio-traitors like Alan Dirtshits for having proven what they so hysterically tried to refute!

 

Nevertheless, Zionist treason is not new in the Land of the Freak and the Home of the Knave. It is well known how Zionists bribed and blackmailed President Woodrow Wilson into dragging the USA into World War I to jump start a Jew State [Judenstaat]. The barebones causal chain is:


1. Trench warfare stalemate on the Western front in 1916, 
2. German proposal to England that war be ended,
3. But Zionists want a German-Turkish defeat so that Turkish rule over Palestine could be given to Brits to pass onto to Zionists,
4. So Zionists promise Britain to bring in Uncle Sucker if Balfour Agreement is issued, 
5. Consequently, Zionists blackmail Wilson to involve Uncle Sucker in defeating German and smashing up Turkish Empire.

 

World War II was deja vu of WW1 but worse. Semitist Jews started the war in 1933 by an official Declaration of War against Germany. Of course, Jews themselves do not fight. They get stupid cattle-goyim to do that. Then Semitist Jews spent the rest of the 1930s stirring up hate to promote their desired war. Charles Lindbergh, the American patriot who warned against the jooish intrigues, fell victim to the typical joosmedia smear campaign and got marginalized into insignificance. Consequently, the jooish elite got their second anti-German war in less than 25 years. And many German-Americans got killed killing German-Germans. For elite Jewry a win-win dream scenario! For the average cattle-goyim a lose-lose hellish nightmare! Actually, one can argue that World War II against the Germans is stilling going on with a zio-occupation government ruling in HOG [Holyhoax Obsessed Germany] and Germans paying endless tribute to the supra-territorial Jew State.

 

Fast forward to the late 1980s when Saddam Hussein, a "Made in the USA" puppet, fell out of JewAssA favor by delivering his "Burn Israel" speech.

 

Like numerous other stooges [e.g. Noreiga, Marcos, etc.], he got dropped like a hot potato. And then Israel's fifth column embroiled its main puppet state in an open-ended Gulf War [1990-this minute]. The blueprint for the fifth column's future plans are laid out in PNAC [Project for a New American Century] written by a handful of top level American zio-traitors.

 

2. Judaic racism: Much of Jewdayism's basic documents [Hebrew Scriptures and TallMud] have nothing whatsoever to do with what a normal person would identify as religion. They are just racist political ideologies designed to deceive both the cattle-goyim and the average Solomon Sixpacker and Leonard Lunchboxer who make up the Self-Chosen tribe's hoi polloi.

 

But in the midst of the jooish scriptures' innumerable bizarre dietary regulations, angry curses, and Stalinist-type official histories, the absolutely craziest of the crazy ideas are the twin ideological pillars of jooish racism: Self-Chosen People and Self-Promised Land. Unfortunately, Joos have generally forgotten the least harmful parts of their ridiculous pseudo-religious teachings, e.g. about not eating shrimp, and remembered only these two hyper-toxic racist delusions. Joos who eat shrimp and worship themselves are called "secular." Joos who do not eat shrimp and worship themselves are called "religious."

 

This originally purely religious racism has now become part of the American jewdiciary because the official adoption of the Noahide laws effectively outlaws any religion other than Judyism and its surrogate slave cult for Gentiles, Holocaust-inanity.

 

3. Semitist lies: The filthiest lie that ancient, medieval, modern, or post-modern elite Jewry has ever cooked up is the totally unfounded Hoaxoco$t blood libel. Holocaustinsanity has not only become the world's fastest growing pseudo-religious cult but the most successful embezzlement and extortion scheme in world financial history. Moreover, the Universal Church of the Holyhoax uses an international Inquisition to snuff out the first sign of heretical or schismatic dissent from its bogus dogmas. The Hoaxoco$t Jewdiciary uses imprisonment, deportation, naked violence, and intimating threats to impose it two most basic myths: 1. The Awschucks 6,000,000 joos up in chimney smoke or barbecued in open-air pits which replaces the Cruxifixion of Jesus as the redemptive suffering required to bring about, 2. the Rebirth of Isrealhell which replaces the Resurrection of Christ as divine salvation.

 

The magnificent one-volume "Lectures on the Holocaust" by Germar Rudolf lays out in an easily readable format the various scientific, political, philosophical, and historical aspects of the jooish elite's most successful and most disgusting blood libel. A normal person would think that Jews would be grateful to Rudolf for showing that they were not spineless cowards who jumped sheep-like into pits of flaming fire to meekly meet their death. But no! Instead they get him deported from the JewAssA and imprisoned in HOG [Hoaxoco$t Obsessed Germany].

 

Apparently the joos' desire to milk the Hoaxoco$t as a cash cow and worship it as a golden calf overcame their shame at portraying themselves as cowardly sheep who would not fight back. Of course, they overcompensate by crying "Never Again" and actually doing to the Palestinians what they falsely accuse the Germans of having done to them. The sensible response to the maudlin "Never Again" would be "Never Was!"

 

Because lies require ever more lies for support, there are many subsidiary and ancillary lies surrounding and propping up the two main contemporary fables of the Holyhoax as suffering and Israel as redemption for the Self-Chosen and a Light onto the Gentiles. If Israel is a light, it is merely the red light of a whore house on a hill.

 

An important supporting lie is the totally unfounded myth of a putative Jewdeo-Christian tradition. But, in fact, no two religions are more based on inter-confessioal hatred than Judyism and Christianity. And most of the hate originated and still comes from Jews who are very skillful and aggressive at putting naive Christians on the defensive. What passes for Jewish-Christian interfaith dialogue is nothing but the ridiculous spectacle of professional jooish liars like Alley the Weasel bloviating and browbeating carefully chosen ignorant Christian patsies who swallow whole the schmalty hate-monger's psychotic fancies about "Oiy veh! da jooish suffarink!"

 

Other lies are the regular resorting to the empty smear words: auntie-Semitist, anti-Semenist, racist, fascist, neo-Nazi, paleo-Nazi, etc. These are meaningless epithets spoken with a lemon-twist smirk and a know-it-all tone and used to change the subject.

 

4. Jooish filth: The slick flagship and most socially successful of jooish promoted pornography is probably "Playboy" still headed by the 76-year old geriatric wannabe teenager, Hughie Hefner. He is not so much disgusting as pathetic with his Viagra-induced imitations of an aged stud horse. Those poor women must have strong necrophiliac instincts to keep from vomiting or perhaps are just dying to become Prostitute of the Month. Can you believe that the ADL [America's Defamation League] awarded Hughie Heebner their Medal of Freedumb? This ADL award for slick smut supports the argument that elite Jewry is very interested in degrading women to the level of animals as one part of a general attack on human civilizations.

 

But Heebner is quite normal compared to the filth seen in Jewdayism's most sacred book, the TallMud. Israel Shamir has argued that Christianity is older than Judyism which developed in opposition and hatred to Christianity. The Talmud was put together after the New Testament in order to fight the then new Jesus-based religion. This would explain the Talmud's vitriolic and vicious spite directed against Jesus and his Mother. It is also a good example of why Nietzsche said that Jews are the greatest haters in human history.

 

At any rate, what is important here is not only jooish hatred but the repulsive bodily images used to express this hatred. Many TallMud passages are very disgusting and read like they were first written for toilet walls. It has Jesus not simply boiling away in hell but immersed in semen and/or excrement. It has Jesus not simply an adulterer but frequently having physical intercourse with animals. The Blessed Mother is also accused of bestiality and prostitution. Great basis for Jooish-Christian dialogue!

 

But contemporary jooish filth goes far beyond the Talmud in graphic explicitness because it uses the latest technologies of electronic transmission and design. Some ghastly and shocking filth can be seen on the SHIT [Self Hating and Israel Threatening] website. Please be prepared to loose your lunch but take a peek around www.maseda.com and find the picture of Attorney Stanley Cohen. One picture is worth 10,000 words to get an idea of jooish filth.

 

Conclusion: The top level jooish elite uses a mix of treason, racism, lies, and filth to stir up ceaseless turmoil and is busy at work successfully destroying those Western world nations where they have bought up the media and captured the political, economic, and military decision making elites. Among their most striking successes are the following:

 

1. Spreading the baseless Hoaxoco$t blood libel

 

2. Weakening the UAssA by embroiling it in wars

 

3. Destroying USA manufacturing by a "scissors" policy

 

4. Creating false flag operations like 9-11

 

5. Starting the West vs. Islam "100 years War."

 

1. The Holyhoax is the most visible and easily exposed of jooish lies. It is also the one most identifiable with the Self-Chosen tribe. The Hoaxoco$t benefits only joos and harms only normal humans [Gentiles] and is the central weapon in the psychological ju-jutsu successfully employed against humans. Gentiles do not initiate hoaxoco$t lies but only repeat them to earn some cash as actors in some Holocaustomaniac film or retain the few crumbs that jooish Holyhoaxers throw their way. Such cattle-goyim are just as much stooges as the brain dead dupes blown away or poisoned in the JewAssA wars for Izzie.

 

All the other jooish lies, smoke screens, and deceits would be severely weakened or completely exposed if the hoaxoco$t were to evaporate. That is why joos fight tooth and nail to defend the holyhoax. They libel, slander, smear, deport, bomb, imprison, or assault and batter anyone who does serious and original work in exposing it. There are many joos who have long ago abandoned the fake religion of Judyism and are even willing to let the Jew State go down the toilet because of its embarrassingly blatant reptile racism. But these same joos go berserk if anyone questions their precious and phoney little holyhoax.

 

2. Zionists and Jewish Supremacists have skillfully embroiled the JewAssA in WW1, WW2, and now the Judaic crusade against Islam. However, it is difficult to pin these responsibilities unambiguously and solely on the jooish elite because many Gentiles closely identify with the "good wars" and are foolishly proud of having twice bombarded and bombed Germany into defeat.

 

Although the "hot war" phase of the anti-Islamic crusade is not so popular, it seems that many more naive American cattle-goyim will have to come home in body bags [the lucky ones] or be poisoned by depleted uranium residue before any widespread anti-war sentiment develops as it did during the Vietnam Criminal War. In the 1970s the joosmedia played a major role in promoting the anti-war sentiment. However, now elite jewry is fully behind the anti-Islamic crusade and its coming installment against Iran and, therefore, nobody should hold his breath waiting for the joosmedia to start a real anti-war movement.

 

3. The two blades of the "scissors policy" are unlimited immigration [which increases the number of job applicants] and so-called free trade [which reduces the number of available manufacturing jobs]. The two blades of the scissors were based on policies pushed by dogmatic Jews [like Milton Friedman] or racist Jews [like Norman Podoretz]. But again it is hard to pin responsibility on elite Jews because so many brainless Gentiles [like Ronny Raygun and Toady "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy] were used as "paradie goyim" stooges to peddle the ideological nonsense.

 

4. By now anyone not living in a cave should be thoroughly suspicious of the Washinton, DC [District of Corruption] childrens' fairy tale cooked up to explain the destruction of the three New York World Trade Center buildings. The only rational explanation is some version of LIHOP [Let it happen on purpose] or MIHOP [Make it happen on purpose]. The key to exposing 9-11 as a Zionist false flag would start by examining Larry Silverstein's order to destroy Building #7.

 

Unfortunately for Larry, a snafu arose and the real or fictive plane that was supposed to "crash" into Building #7 never arrived so he had to go directly to the previously planted explosives and order the building destroyed in an obvious controlled demolition with no phoney cover story of a terrorist piloted airplane. No problem! The braindead American pubic never noticed and the joosmedia got away with their fairy tale of 19 Arab hijackers, although many of the dead called in from abroad to protest the premature announcement of their passing.

 

5. What Baby Bush stupidly calls a War on Terrorism is in fact a Jewish religious war against Islam that was started c. 160 years ago [or maybe 1400 years ago]. All the major joosmedia outlets in the last 15 years have been spitting out anti-Islamic and anti-Arab lies designed to get stupid Christians to fight Jewdayism's war. The war propaganda has been very successful in inciting learning-impaired Christians to hate and in hiding Mr. Elite Jew's evil hand in concocting the filthy blood libel. But there has been Christian-Islamic conflict in the past so it is difficult to see through the smoke screen of Zionist, Judaic, and Semitist deceit. Even critics of elite Jewry like Pat Buchanan and John Bryant have appeared on the anti-Islamic bandwagon.

 

My personal conviction is that elite Jews in the JewAssA and Israel see the USA itself as their next big enemy and are using this war to militarily weaken, overextend, and enfeeble the USA itself, i.e. literally kill three or four birds with one stone. By getting the UAssA to destroy Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, and even the USA itself, Israel could be the top military power in the world in terms of technological ability to deliver a broad assortment of Weapons of Mass Destruction by land, sea, and air.Michael Collins Piper has suggested in his authoritative study of the JFK murder ["The Final Judgment"] that Israel and China had cooperated in developing the nuclear weapons for those two countries. China provided the land area to develop and test the weapons and Israeli scientists contributed knowledge stolen from France and the USA. Izzie and China have since cooperated on the sale and transfer of other weapons technology. In the near future, they could team up in an open military alliance.

 

Delenda est Judaea! [Israel must be destroyed!]

 

--patrick@fps.chuo-u.ac.jp

 

 

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Zarqawi's end is not a famous victory, nor will it bring Iraq any nearer to peace

By Robert Fisk


9 June 2006The Independent

 

So, it's another "mission accomplished". The man immortalised by the Americans as the most dangerous terrorist since the last most dangerous terrorist, is killed - by the Americans. A Jordanian corner-boy who could not even lock and load a machine gun is blown up by the US Air Force - and Messrs Bush and Blair see fit to boast of his demise. To this have our leaders descended. And how short are our memories.

"They seek him here, they seek him there.

"Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.

"Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?

"That demned elusive Pimpernel?"

Sir Percy Blakeney, of course, eluded the revolutionary French. But the Baroness Orczy - unlike Mr Bush - would scarcely have bothered with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian thug whose dubious allegiance to al-Qa'ida turned him in to another "Enemy Number One" for those who believe they are fighting the eternal "war on terror". For so short is our attention span - and Messrs Bush and Blair, of course, rely on this - we have already forgotten that our leaders' only interest in Zarqawi before the illegal 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq was to propagate the lie that Osama bin Laden was in cahoots with Saddam Hussein.

Because Zarqawi met Bin Laden in 2002 and then took up residence in a squalid valley in northern Iraq - inside Kurdistan but well outside the control of both the Kurds and Saddam - Messrs Bush and Blair concocted the fable that this "proved" the essential link between the Beast of Baghdad and the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001. The date on which this fictitious alliance was proclaimed - since it is far more important, politically and historically, than the date of Zarqawi's death - was 5 February 2003. The location of the lie was the United Nations Security Council and the man who uttered it was the then Secretary of State, Colin Powell.

What a sigh of relief there must have been in Washington that Zarqawi was dead and not captured. He might have told the truth.

Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, we were supposed to believe that the death of Zarqawi was a famous victory. The American press dusted off their favourite phrase: "terrorist mastermind". No one, I suspect, will be able to claim the $25m on his head - unless he was betrayed by his own hooded gunmen - but the American military, stained by the blood of Haditha, received a ritual pat on the back from the Commander-in-Chief. They had got their man, the instigator of civil war, the flame of sectarian hatred, the head chopper who supposedly murdered Nicholas Berg. Maybe he was all these things. Or maybe not. But it will bring the war no nearer to its end, not because of the inevitable Islamist rhetoric about the "thousand Zarqawis" who will take his place, but because individuals no longer control - if they ever did - the inferno of Iraq. Bin Laden's death would not damage al-Qa'ida now that he - like a nuclear scientist who has built an atom bomb - has created it. Zarqawi's demise - and only al-Qa'ida's killers would have listened to him, not the ex-Iraqi army officers who run the real Iraqi insurgency - will not make an iota of difference to the slaughter in Mesopotamia.

Messrs Bush and Blair slyly admitted as much yesterday when they warned that the insurgency would continue. But this raised another question. Will the eventual departure of Bush and Blair provide an opportunity to end this hell/ disaster? Or have the results of their folly also taken on a life of their own, unstoppable by any political change in Washington or London? Already we forget the way in which the same American forces credited with Zarqawi's death had proved only a few weeks ago that he was a bumbling incompetent. The Beast of Ramadi - or Fallujah or Baquba or wherever - had produced a videotape in which he fired a light machine gun while promising victory to Islam. Days later, the Americans showed the rough cuts of the same video - in which Zarqawi could be seen pleading for help from his comrades after a bullet jammed in the breech of the weapon.

In prison in Jordan, back in the days when he was a mafiosi rather than a mahdi, Zarqawi would drape blankets around his bed, curtains that would conceal him from his fellow prisoners, a cave - a Bin Laden cave - from which he would emerge to stroke or strike the men in his cell. Possessive of his wife, he left her with so little money that she had to go out to work in his native Zarqa. When his mother died, Zarqawi sent no condolences.

Like Bin Laden - the man of whom he was both beholden and intensely jealous - he had already transmogrified, undergone that essential transubstantiation of all violent men, from the personal to the immaterial, from the uncertainty of life to the certainty of death. Zarqawi's videotape was an act of extreme vanity that may have led to his death and he may have made it, subconsciously, to be his last message.

That the intelligence services of King Abdullah of Jordan - descendant of the monarch whom Sir Winston Churchill plopped off to the Hashemite throne - might have located Zarqawi's "safe house" in Baquba was a suitably ironic historical act. The man who believed in caliphates had struck at the kingdom - killing 60 innocents in three hotels - and the old colonial world had struck back. A king's anger will embrace a duke or two. Even an ex-jailbird. Which, in the end, is probably all that Zarqawi ever was.


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