Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed

[StoneMtn]

Well, I think this news may have just broken in the last half-hour. I can't even yet find anything about this online, other than this headline on MSNBC:

Breaking News: U.S. officials: Al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed.

I imagine that by tomorrow morning, we'll have the whole story, but there ya go.

[paisley]

big news to be sure

would expect all hell to break loose in Iraq now... the "liberators" would've been far better off catching him (laser guided bombs aren't too hot at taking prisoners)... no symbolism is more powerful than martyrdom to the resistance

Associated Press

Jun 8, 3:48 AM EDT

Iraqi PM: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed

By PATRICK QUINN

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, has been killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister said Thursday.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed Wednesday evening along with seven aides.

The Jordanian-born militant, who was believed to have personally beheaded at least two American hostages, became Iraq's most wanted militant, as notorious as Osama bin Laden, to whom he swore allegiance in 2004. The United States had put a $25 million bounty on al-Zarqawi, the same as bin Laden.

In the past year, he moved his campaign beyond Iraq's borders, claiming to have carried out a Nov. 9, 2005, triple suicide bombing against hotels in Amman, Jordan, that killed 60 people, as well as other attacks in Jordan and even a rocket attack from Lebanon into northern Israel.

Edited June 8, 2006 by Guest
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