Al-Zarqawi Killed in Bomb Strike

This is huge news as it’s a big blow to Al-Qaida. This is an excerpt from an article over at marketwatch.com, and I am posting it because as a US citizen the war in Iraq is important to me. At 20 years old I thank God that we have a volunteer army.

“LONDON (MarketWatch) — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed in a Baghdad air strike, after U.S. warplanes dropped bombs on his safehouse, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Thursday.

The Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi was described as the instigator of much of the violence in the country, including suicide bombings, kidnappings and beheadings.

Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed along with seven aides.

President Bush, in a brief speech from the White House Rose Garden, praised the killing as a victory over a brutal terrorist who had served as an “operational commander” of the insurgency. But he warned that Zarqawi’s death was unlikely to put an end to the violence.

“Zarqawi is dead, but the difficult and necessary mission in Iraq continues. We can expect the terrorists and insurgents to carry on without him. We can expect the sectarian violence to continue. Yet the ideology of terror has lost one of its most visible and aggressive leaders,” Bush said.”

By Steve Goldstein & Sarah Turner, MarketWatchLast

Update: 10:11 AM ET Jun 8, 2006

Link to the whole article.