al - Zarqawi dead?

It's not worth that much to the market. We got Saddam on a Saturday, futures popped up but then Monday we were actually down for the day. Capturing or killing one guy, be it Zarqawi or UBL doesn't really matter much in the end game.
 
Quote from BlueHorseshoe:

US officials are stoking the press speculation looking to see what type of comments come out of the Zarqawi organization. Part of the intel game as DNA testing can take a while and if he is dead, this could be a particularly vulnerable time for the organization in that it could splinter into vieing (sp?) groups. That is something US/Iraqis need to take advantage of.
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Translation: it will take some time to run all the bits through a strainer.
 
Shouldn't take them too long. He only has (had?) one leg

"Early in 2002, there were unverified reports from Afghan Northern Alliance members that Zarqawi had been killed by a missile attack in Afghanistan. Many news sources repeated the claim. Later, Kurdish groups claimed that Zarqawi had not died in the missile strike, but had been severely injured, and went to Baghdad in 2002 to have his leg amputated. On October 7, 2002, the day before Congress voted to give the President permission to go to war against Iraq, President Bush gave a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio that repeated this claim as fact. This was Bush's primary example of ways Saddam Hussein had purportedly aided al-Qaida. Powell repeated this claim in his famous February 2003 speech to the UN, urging a resolution for war, and it soon became "common knowledge" that Zarqawi had a prosthetic leg."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Musab_al-Zarqawi
 
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