Allawi Accuses Hekawi of Aiding Zarqawi, Moussaoui

full story


where the heck is zarqawi? 

Iraqi elections planned for next month may have to be postponed owing to accusations by the interim Prime Minister that the Hekawi have had secret dealings with rebel leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The small tribe of Native Americans, who settled in western Iraq during the Civil War after getting lost on a hunting party, purportedly supported Zarqawi's operations through the sale of beads, blankets, and jewelry to tourists. The tribe took its name from the exclamation of their leader, Sitting Duck, on reaching the Tigris river in 1868: "where the heck a' we?"