Got him with a tip from Jordanian intelligence, where he had a death sentence pending. Great day for the military. I think something like this clearly helps define the effort and actions of our young troops. I think there will be a number of retailiatory type bombings in the next couple of days, but there is no denying this is a huge 'termination.' I also think that there may have been a couple of bigtime terror players killed as well with Zarqawi. I doubt he was meeting in a barn in the middle of nowhere with his investment advisors.
Al Qaeda already had named a new Amir before Zarqawi was killed.
Probably wont affect the structure of the groups over there much since he'd already fallen from favor and had been replaced.
Good moral booster for those that don't actually pay any attention to real news but thats ok.
This is great news to go along with the USS Cole Deployment, may God bless that crew -
NORFOLK, Va. The USS Cole set sail from Norfolk today on its first deployment to the Middle East since 17 sailors died when terrorists bombed the ship at a port in Yemen nearly six years ago.