Confirmed: al-Zarqawi was killed... Options

[Big P]

quote:
Six people including al-Zarqawi and a key lieutenant, spiritual adviser Sheik Abd-al-Rahman, were killed in the strike, the military said. Iraqi forces were the first to arrive at the scene, Caldwell said.

"Zarqawi's body was then removed, brought back to a secure location," Caldwell said. "By visual identification it was established that that probably was him.

"But they ... did further examination of his body, found more scars and tattoos consistent with what had been reported and what we knew about him. They then did a fingerprint identification, and that came back ... this morning as positively identified as Zarqawi having been killed."

"We have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Zarqawi was in the house," Caldwell said. "It was 100 percent identification." Even so, DNA testing will be conducted, he said.

-cnn.com



http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/...qawi/index.html

[CommanderChoth]

Sigh, there's the truth gentlemen. Violence begets violence...

Yeah, we probably should have just left him alone and let him continue beheading innocent people.

Now you can't dismiss me that easily. Violence begets violence. We threaten, he holds public beheadings as an attempt to anger/demoralize us, we kill him, what's next?
Conflict expands exponentially. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad one less threat is down and out, but I still believe that instead of being safer with him gone, our soldiers are in more danger.

And I'm sorry if I open up a can of worms here...this is great news, that bastard deserves to die, but damn can't these people figure out that misunderstanding is the root of all conflict (in my opinion).

I'm just laughing to think what it must be like when Allah sits these guys down and explains what a jihad REALLY means.