The Jordanian head of Goat Raping In Iraq and some of his buddies discovered the efficacy of USAF ordnance the hard way.

Roto-Reuters: Al Qaeda's Zarqawi killed

U.S. aircraft killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in
Iraq blamed for bombings, beheadings and assassinations, and
President George W. Bush said on Thursday that American forces had "delivered justice."

Imperfect earthly justice, undoubted

In one of the most significant developments in Iraq since the capture of
Saddam Hussein in 2003, Jordanian Zarqawi was killed on Wednesday in a U-S.-Iraqi operation helped by tip-offs from Iraqis and Jordanian intelligence, officials said.

Golly. Maybe the threatened Israeli pullout did spook the Hashemites.

Vowing to fight on, Al Qaeda in Iraq confirmed the death of Zarqawi, who is said to have carried out several beheadings of hostages himself and who appeared in a recent video firing a machine gun in the desert.

Ha! His own goons probably fingered him because he didn't know how to fire it.

U.S. forces displayed a picture of the corpse of the bearded Zarqawi with his eyes shut, at a Baghdad news conference.

Zarqawi, in his late 30s and whom Osama bin Laden called the prince of al Qaeda in Iraq, had symbolized the radical Islamic insurgency against U.S. occupation, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he now expected insurgents to seek revenge.

"There will be fierce attempts ... with the death of Zarqawi to fight back," Blair said, adding his death would not end the killing in Iraq but that it was "significant."

Bush said the death of Zarqawi, who had a $25 million bounty on his head, was "a severe blow to al Qaeda," a victory in the war on terrorism, "and it is an opportunity for Iraq's new government to turn the tide in this struggle."

U.S. special operations forces confirmed Zarqawi's location based on intelligence from Iraqis and "delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq," Bush said.

I hope the guy who gets the $25 million buys himself a couple of fast cars and a vacation home on Long Island.

Followers of Zarqawi, who had declared war on Iraq's majority Shi'ite Muslims reinforcing fears that he was out to ignite civil war, pledged to continue their fight.

"We tell our prince, Sheikh bin Laden, your soldiers in al Qaeda in Iraq will continue along the same path that you set out for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," said a statement on an Islamist Web site. "The death of our leaders is life for us and only makes us more determined to continue the jihad..."

Wrap his carcass in a pigskin and feed it to wild dogs live on CNN. And don't forget the scantily clad cheerleaders urging his immortal soul on to perdition.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who had been desperately in need of a success to bolster his authority , said seven Zarqawi aides were also killed in the raid in the city of Baquba 65 km (40 miles) north of the capital.
Bush was informed by national security adviser Stephen Hadley at 4:35 p.m. (2035 GMT) on Wednesday in the Oval Office that it was believed Zarqawi was dead, and Bush replied, "That would be a good thing," White House spokesman Tony Snow said.

ZARQAWI INSPIRED BOMBERS

U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the death of Zarqawi, whom he called the "godfather of sectarian killing in Iraq," marked a great success. But the ambassador and military officials cautioned that it will not end the violence.

Two bombs in Baghdad, which killed a total of 15 people and injured 36 others on Thursday, gave a grim reminder of the bloodshed besetting the country.

The announcement of Zarqawi's death had an impact on oil prices. Crude futures were down more than one dollar to $69.82.

See, kiddies? If we kill enough goat rapists, the grateful people of the Middle East will pay us to use their oil.

Zarqawi had inspired an apparently endless (Please. Somebody must have taken a hyperbole pill this morning. the supply will dry up when the cool kids stop encouraging others to try it. - F. G.) supply of militants from across the Arab world to blow themselves up in suicide missions in Iraq.

Some posters of the most wanted man in Iraq show him in glasses, looking like an accountant, others as a tough-looking man in a black skullcap.

Zarqawi appeared on a video in April unmasked for the first time, meeting his followers, firing a machinegun in the desert and condemning the entire Iraqi political process.

That explains it. The fathead forgot the Iraqis can now watch Fox News. That $25 million may have to be split one million ways.

Iraqi and U.S. officials said he had formed a loose alliance with Saddam's former agents, benefiting from their money, weapons and intelligence assets to press his campaign.

"Zarqawi didn't have a number two. I can't think of any single person who would succeed Zarqawi," Rohan Gunaratna from the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore said. "In terms of effectiveness, there was no single leader in Iraq who could match his ruthlessness and his determination."

The brother of Ken Bigley, a British engineer beheaded by Zarqawi's group, said the militant leader should rot in hell. "The man was an animal and he deserved what he got. And may he rot in hell," Paul Bigley told Channel Four news.

Amen to that, Brother.

In the bleak Jordanian city where Zarqawi grew up, relatives mourned his death as a loss to Islam and prayed for 1,000 "Zarqawis" to fight the Americans in his place.

May God have mercy on their poor souls.

Arab web sites reflected reverence and revulsion.

"Thank God this wayward infidel is dead," wrote Azizi on al Saha Web site (www.alsaha.com). "It's enough that he's an ally of Osama bin Laden, the sheikh of terror and terrorists. All true believers have been relieved of his evil."

Others hailed Zarqawi as a martyr and a hero.

"The sky does not suffer from the death of a star ... and there will be no sadness for you, Abu Musab, as your death is actually the wedding of a martyr. You will reside in paradise."

In the interest of fairness and ridicule Your Humble Servant now presents the pro-goat rapist counterpoint from noted American crackpot Michael Berg.


AP: Berg: No good in al-Zarqawi's death

The father of Nicholas Berg, a U.S. contractor believed to have been beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, said Thursday that he doesn't see any good coming from al-Zarqawi's death.

"I see more death coming out of al-Zarqawi's death," Michael Berg told The Associated Press after learning a U.S. air strike had killed the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Al-Zarqawi is believed to have beheaded two Americans in 2004: Nicholas Berg, a 26-year-old businessman from West Chester, Pa., and Eugene Armstrong, a 52-year-old contractor from Hillsdale, Mich.

Due to time constraints, we now move to further action.

Nicholas Berg's father, a pacifist who is running for Delaware's U.S. House seat on the Green Party ticket, said al-Zarqawi's death is likely to foster anti-American resentment among al-Qaida members who feel they have nothing left to lose.

Ah, yes...the Gangrenous Party. They'll be able to fix everything.

BTW, Citizen Berg? They kill because they like it, not because they are desperate.

He dismissed the notion that al-Zarqawi's death might bring him closure.

"First of all, I'm not even certain that al-Zarqawi even killed my son," said Michael Berg, who doesn't believe the videotape of his son's execution or what he's been told by the FBI any more than he believes conspiracy theories suggesting his son was killed by the U.S. government.

"I think the news of the loss of any human being is a tragedy. I think al-Zarqawi's death is a double tragedy," he said. "His death will incite a new wave of revenge.

Here's the money shot, kiddies:

George Bush and al-Zarqawi are two men who believe in revenge."
Berg said "restorative justice," — such as being forced to work in a hospital where maimed children are treated — could have made al-Zarqawi "a decent human being.

Oy vey! I no longer wonder why his son was stupid enough to wander into a war zone.