Monday, June 12, 2006
News RhetIraq: Al Zarqawi Killed
Source: EURSOC
Quotes: From article titled, "Zarqawi Killed In US Air Raid"
Al-Qaeda's top man in Iraq, Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed in an air raid, according to Iraq's prime minister.
Nuri al-Maliki announced this morning that the terrorist's remains had been identified "visually and via fingerprints." Details of the circumstances surrounding his death will be revealed later today, though US military sources say he was killed in a strike on an isolated "safe house" on Wednesday evening.
The US ambassador to Iraq notes that Zarqawi's death is unlikely to reduce the violence in Iraq, at least in the short term. The removal of the most bloodthirsty of terror leaders, however, will be read as a rare moment of good news for allied forces in the region.
Quotes: From article titled, "Zarqawi Killed In US Air Raid"
Al-Qaeda's top man in Iraq, Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed in an air raid, according to Iraq's prime minister.
Nuri al-Maliki announced this morning that the terrorist's remains had been identified "visually and via fingerprints." Details of the circumstances surrounding his death will be revealed later today, though US military sources say he was killed in a strike on an isolated "safe house" on Wednesday evening.
The US ambassador to Iraq notes that Zarqawi's death is unlikely to reduce the violence in Iraq, at least in the short term. The removal of the most bloodthirsty of terror leaders, however, will be read as a rare moment of good news for allied forces in the region.
