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Text of
document found in al-Zarqawi's safe house
Al Zarqaui,
líder de Al Qaeda en Irak, muere en un bombardeo de EEUU
Les
Etats-Unis éliminent al-Zarqaoui
رئيس
الوزراء يعلن
مقتل المجرم
ابو مصعب الزرقاوي
The Air Strike Update More Info - The airstrike that eliminated Zarqawi
and the operations that led to his demise. /Zarqawi's successor and the
Al-Qaida network. /The Iraqi government's strategy.
Pentagon TV Bush arrives to Troops in Iraq after Zarqawi
Termintion – FOX TV
- DoD
Iraq TV
Zarqawi used Internet as
terror tool
Cell phone tracking
In an exclusive interview, an Iraqi army colonel told CNN Friday 9/6/06
that intelligence from cell phone technology helped U.S. forces find and kill
al-Zarqawi.Col. Dhiya Tamimi said he worked with U.S. forces to monitor
al-Zarqawi and his associates' cell phones, helping to lead to Wednesday
night's airstrike.
Zarqawi :House , Bombs , Before & After & New Boss
Download & Save as... WMP . ADSL . Direct Link . Published 13/6/06.Video Location: Hibhib. Unit(s) Involved:
3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4 Iinfantry Division.
Unit Hometown(s): Fort Carson. Unit State(s): Colo.Force(s) Involved: Army,Iraqi Forces. Component(s) Involved: Active. Size ((7.04
MB). Length: 4:39. Date Taken: 06-10-2006.This Video: U.S. and Iraqi Soldiers
Secure Al-Zarqawi Bomb Site. B-Roll of U.S. and Iraqi
Soldiers secureing the Al-Zarqawi bomb site. Scenes include Soldiers
forming a perimeter, Blackhawk helicopters in flight, Iraqi Soldiers standing
guard and wreckage from the explosion.
Search of Intel: U.S. & Iraqi Soldiers Secure Al-Zarqawi
Bomb Site – Date10/6/06 Published 13/6/06
Road to Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi
Killed or Captured the
Past 90 Days
• 06 April - Abu Karrar
– Military leader in Yusufiyah
• 08 April - Abd al
Karim – Zarqawi senior lieutenant and courier
• 25 April - Abu Abdullah al Saudi – Foreign terrorist,
Yusufiyah
• 28 April - Hammadi Tahki – Emir of Samarra
• 05 May - Abd al Rahman – Emir of the TRV
• 06 May - Hammudi – part of Abu Ghadiyah network as a foreign
terrorist
• 07 May - Ali Wali – [AS] senior operations planner, Baghdad
• 31 May - Khalid al Kurdi, Northern foreign terrorist
• 07 June - Shaykh Abd Al Rahman – Zarqawi spiritual advisor
• 07 June - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Videos on the Case Direct Links Part
Streaming & Downloads…
Spanish – Short Report on all the case till
today
Irak: Al Maliki prohíbe el
tráfico en Bagdad y Baquba
Reacciones ante el asesinato del
jefe de Al Qaeda en Irak
Russian Report & Zarqawi - Hometown Hero
Autopsies Show Injuries
Killed Zarqawi
Al Zarqawi
DNA arrives at FBI Lab
Air Strike Kills Zarqawi - Air Force
Report Google Video
Zarqawi airstrike
video. 6 MB.
Total running time 2:10
US Army Command in Iraq Videos
In June 8, 2006 Zarqawi was killed overnight by USAF
& USS Cole Steams Back To Mideast
(5th Fleet )for the first time.
Norfolk TV Station Videos in the
double events
USS
Cole heads for Middle East for first time since 2000 Al Qaeda terrorist attack
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Zarqawi Hideout Yields Many Clues, Data
Also found were
"media and documents," the officer said, adding that the term
"media" as used in this context normally refers to information
storage devices such as computer hard drives, digital cameras or other devices.
The officer was unable to be specific in this case. The material was being
assessed for possible use, the officer added.
The military and
U.S. intelligence agencies have specialized computer "forensic"
software that can identify and recover digital information seized on the
battlefield. A senior official with a leading producer of such software said
Friday it is almost certain that any recovered computer disks, even if damaged
in the bombing, will yield valuable information, given Zarqawi's reliance on
computers and e-mail to communicate.
Tim Leehealey, an executive vice president with Guidance Software, said in a
telephone interview that the first things the U.S. military likely will look
for on computer hard drives or other information storage devices are who
Zarqawi has been communicating with and how. He said it is likely that Zarqawi
relied on portable hard drives commonly called thumb drives to pass e-mail
messages without making them easily traceable.
Document files on computer disks can be read by the forensic software even if
it is in Arabic, Leehealey said.
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/06/12/ap/washington/d8i5lohg1.txt
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المالكي
يعلن مقتل
الزرقاوي - ( لخميس 12/5/1427
هـ - الموافق8/6/2006 )
أعلن
رئيس الوزراء
نوري المالكي
مقتل زعيم تنظيم
القاعدة في
العراق أبو
مصعب
الزرقاوي. جاء
ذلك في مؤتمر
صحفي مشترك
ببغداد مع
قائد القوات الأميركية
في العراق
الجنرال جورج
كايسي .وذكرت شبكة ABC الأميركية
أن الزرقاوي
قتل في غارة
جوية
على بعقوبة
شمال بغداد.جاء
ذلك عقب تأكيد
مصادر عراقية
اعتقال أحد
أقرب مساعديه
وتقديمه
معلومات هامة
عنه.كان الزرقاوي
ظهر في
أبريل/نيسان
الماضي في
شريط فيديو من
داخل العراق
ووعد بهزيمة
الأميركيين.
http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/034AE7AC-E589-42E9-A7D9-3DB59E7C657F.htm
What al-Zarqawi could not have known was that U.S. and Jordanian intelligence officials had been tracking the movements of Abdul-Rahman and the courier--whom Jordanian intelligence refers to as Mr. X--for weeks. Jordan's GID set up spy bureaus in Iraq and began working with the Dulaimis, a large, mostly Sunni Arab tribe, some of whose members are closely tied to the insurgency, to gather information about anyone associating with Zarqawi or others in militant groups. Fewer than half a dozen members of a U.S. reconnaissance and surveillance team from Delta Force hid in a grove of date and palm trees, watching the building. After years of hunting, they finally had the prey in their sights. The U.S. scored the war's biggest triumph since catching Saddam Hussein thanks to the determination of a small group of American hunters, to a Jordanian King's desire to avenge an attack on his country . A special-ops exploitation team trained to glean intelligence from raids arrived with photos, fingerprint (Zarqawi spent part of the 1990s in prisons in Jordan) smudges and descriptions of the scars and tattoos on his body, much of which had been supplied by Jordanian intelligence . Iraq's new intelligence services, formed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, lack experience and technology, but Jordan's have both. In April 2006, when Zarqawi showed up in a highly publicized online propaganda video boasting of his group's prowess, Jordanian analysts scrutinized the surrounding scenery as well as his blustery talk. The tape confirmed suspicions that Zarqawi was in the Yousifiya area, a volatile insurgent stronghold south of Baghdad, which became the focus of U.S. and Jordanian intelligence efforts, Throughout the spring, U.S. military officials, too, were publicly identifying the area south of Baghdad as a likely Zarqawi stronghold. At a certain stage, more intelligence [resources] were being devoted to Yousifiya, Jordan's familiarity with the region and intelligence networks played a key role in monitoring Zarqawi's movements there. Once it became clear that the Yousifiya information was accurate, the Jordanians became more confident of their sources. Then when information was received about Zarqawi being in the Baqubah area, northeast of Baghdad, they were confident of that as well. They started to locate him and the Americans started to locate him. GID counterterrorism chief Col. Ali Burjaq was on the coordination with the Americans & The Iraqis. With the permission of Iraq's fledgling government, Jordanian operatives flooded the war-torn country, cultivating informants and working the periphery of the Zarqawi network to find ways into the organization. Jordanian security and intelligence authorities were involved in the hunt from the start, helping trace locations at which Zarqawi and his group frequently stayed, Jordanian government spokesman Nasser Joudeh said.
Files Concern Jordan`s Zarqawi Intel.
Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi Appears In New Video
8/6/06 - Nasser Joudeh – Jordan Notice
7/6/06
- 7 charged with plotting
attacks in Jordan – Jordan Notice
24/5/06 - Al Qaeda suspect confesses to killing on
Jordan TV – Jordan Notice
25/5/06 Royal Visit & Zaraqwi
`sVictim Family/Jordnian Truck Driver Request to Find Zarqawi - Arabic
زياد
خلف رجّا
الكربولي
Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly
The
Jordanians worked with agents inside Iraq to draw Mr. Karbouly across the border .Perhaps the
most important arrest, however, was Jordan's capture last month (May 2006) of
an al Qaeda logistics and smuggling agent, Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly. Mr.
Karbouly went on Jordanian television (23/5/06) after his arrest and described
murdering Jordanian truck drivers moving goods into Iraq. He also described
carrying out political assassination of Moroccan and Kurdish diplomats on the
orders of Mr. Zarqawi. The Jordanians worked with agents inside Iraq to draw
Mr. Karbouly across the border . And the al Qaeda operative provided
Jordanian interrogators with important intelligence on Mr. Zarqawi's top aides,
including his spiritual adviser, Abu Abdul-Rahman. In recent weeks, U.S.
military monitored Mr.
Rahman's movements by drone and cell
phone tracking , and ultimately, were
drawn to Mr. Zarqawi's hideout near the Iraqi city of Baqubah.
زياد
خلف رجّا
الكربولي
Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly
"وأكد
بيان رسمي
أذاعه
التلفزيون
الأردني أن هذه
«العملية
النوعية»
نفذتها «مجموعة
فرسان الحق»
التابعة
لوحدة
العمليات الخارجية
في دائرة
المخابرات
العامة
بإسناد من
الكتيبة 71
التابعة
للعمليات
الخاصة في
الجيش». وأضاف
البيان أن
العملية «نفذت
بأمر مباشر من
العاهل
الأردني
الملك عبدالله
الثاني»".
The
official statement broadcast Jordanian television that the "process
quality" executed "a right horsemen" of
the Operations Unit of Foreign Affairs in the General Intelligence assigning
Battalion 71 of the special operations in the army ". The statement added
that the operation "carried out by order direct the Jordanian monarch,
King Abdullah II".
King of Jordan website
notice concern this news – Arabic
& English.
Terrorism
is an international concern that knows no borders. Jordan is committed as ever,
in sparring no effort in fighting terrorism in all its forms and our security
forces will continue to ensure peace and stability for all Jordanians. King of
Jordan met twice in Washington during the last month also to ensure the coordination for Zarqawi
termination.
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This
image displayed by the U.S. Military at a press conference 8/6/06 in Baghdad
purports to show a view of the location of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at the time of
attack that took his life. The combat camera images of the attack released on
Thursday showed a large white dot circling the target area at relatively low
altitude before, during and after the bombing, the characteristic signature of a
reconnaissance drone. Pilots who hit Zarqawi likely trained Luke Air Force
Base, Ariz. Lt. Col. Kenneth Lacy, a combat veteran who commands the 308th
Fighter Squadron commenting on the basis of news reports, said the mission that
targeted Zarqawi would have been challenging from the standpoint of the pilots’
need to coordinate with special-operations units and other coalition forces.
Speaking
to reporters, Bush mentioned that among the senior officers he called to offer congratulations
for killing Zarqawi was
Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, in this DoD photo, commander of
Joint Special Operations Command, whose forces include the Army's clandestine
counterterrorism unit, Delta Force. Lt. Gen. McChrystal, chief of the shadowy
Special Operations force tracking Zarqawi, looked down on the bloodied body of
his adversary, dressed in black.
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June 09, 2006
The hunt ends
Spec ops’
‘unblinking eye’ leads to airstrike that kills terrorist leader
By Sean D. Naylor
Times staff writer
In the end, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could not
escape Task Force 145’s “unblinking eye.”
TF 145 is the latest name for the
shifting collection of U.S. and British special operations units that has
hunted the most wanted terrorist in Iraq for three years, and “the unblinking
eye” is what its members call the fusion of intelligence and operations that
allowed them to relentlessly peel away the layers of Zarqawi’s al-Qaida in Iraq
organization until the terror mastermind was left defenseless and almost alone.
When that moment came, at 6:15 p.m.
on June 7, a hidden Delta Force reconnaissance and surveillance team from TF
145 watched as two 500-pound bombs dropped by an Air Force F-16 pulverized the
safe house near Baqubah, in which Zarqawi; his spiritual advisor, Sheikh Abd Al
Rahman; and four other people had taken refuge.
The house, located in a tiny farming
hamlet called Hibhib, was leveled by the blast. Rahman, another man and three
women are believed to have died in the strike, but Zarqawi was still breathing
when Iraqi police arrived at the scene, Army Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell said
during a June 9 briefing from Baghdad. However, the terrorist leader died
within moments.
Caldwell said earlier reports that a
child also had been killed in the bombing were incorrect.
Zarqawi’s death marks a high point in
the history of Joint Special Operations Command, which provides most of the
units that comprise TF 145, and is a serious — perhaps fatal — blow to
Zarqawi’s al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group.
But observers say it is too soon to
judge the impact on the wider war in Iraq, which includes a Sunni insurgency
separate from Zarqawi’s group and several Shiite militias vying for power.
“Things
are not going to go away now,” said Vali Nasr, a Middle East expert at the
Naval Postgraduate School. “But it’s now not as likely that we’ll see an attack
on Ayatollah Sistani or Najaf,” he said, referring to Iraq’s most influential
Shiite cleric and its holiest Shiite shrine.
The strike that killed Zarqawi was
the culmination of “a very long, painstaking, deliberate exploitation of
intelligence, information-gathering, human sources, electronic, signal
intelligence … over a period of time,” Caldwell said.
Rahman, Zarqawi’s spiritual adviser,
was the key. “He was identified several weeks ago … through military sources
from somebody inside Zarqawi’s network,” Caldwell said. “They were able to
start tracking him, monitoring his movements and establishing when he was doing
his link-ups with Zarqawi.”
The capture of Sheikh Ahmed al-Dabash
in Baghdad’s Mansour district May 29, described by U.S. Central Command as “a
major financier and facilitator of terrorism in Iraq,” may have been another
critical breakthrough, multiple sources said.
“You
follow the money — and he was the money man,” said an officer familiar with
special operations in Iraq.
TF 145 tracked Rahman to a safe house
about five miles west of Baqubah in the tiny hamlet of Hibhib, an isolated
cluster of about 300 buildings, most of them made of sub-baked mud, and surrounded
by miles of farms, orchards and fields.
Hibhib, which has seen a fair amount
of insurgent activity, is almost 100 percent Sunni and is home to at least
three prominent families who would have gladly given sanctuary to a man like
Zarqawi, said Army Maj. Kreg Schnell, former intelligence officer for 3rd
Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, which spent a year in Baqubah
starting in February 2004.
Zarqawi “obviously had friends in the
area who gave him meals and a place to sleep,” Schnell said.
Indeed, U.S. intelligence had
confirmed that Zarqawi would meet Rahman in Hibhib. A
reconnaissance-surveillance team from Delta Force’s B Squadron infiltrated the
area to get “eyes on” the house, said a source in the special operations
community. Sources said a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle was also overhead.
After slipping through coalition
fingers on several occasions in the past three years, Zarqawi was now in the
sights of U.S. forces.
It was, Caldwell said, “the first time
that we … had definitive, unquestionable information as to exactly where he was
located,” in a place where he could be hit “without causing collateral damage
to other Iraqi civilians and personnel in the area.”
Senior U.S. military leaders in Iraq
discussed whether to launch a ground assault, but decided “they could not
really go in on the ground without running the risk of having him escape,”
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters June 8 in Brussels, Belgium.
Air power on display
That left an airstrike as the only
option.
Two F-16C Fighting Falcon jets were
in the air on a routine on-call mission due to last four or five hours over
central Iraq when the decision was made to launch the mission, Air Force Lt.
Gen. Gary North, Central Command’s air component commander, told reporters in
the Pentagon on June 8.
The jets carried a mixed load of
laser-guided and satellite-guided bombs and LITENING targeting pods equipped
with laser designators to mark targets, as well as video cameras.
Caldwell said June 9 that at the time
the order was given to launch a strike on the house, one of the two F-16s was
receiving fuel from an airborne tanker, so only one aircraft made the bombing
run.
The pilot knew there was a high-value
target in the building, North said, but he declined to
say whether the pilot was told that target was Zarqawi.
North also refused to name the pilot,
the unit or the base from which the mission was flown. For the past year, most
F-16Cs flying over Iraq have been staged out of Balad, a sprawling Army and Air
Force complex about 50 miles north of Baghdad. The Air Force typically has the
equivalent of two F-16 squadrons at Balad.
Flying at “medium” altitude — at
least 20,000 feet — the pilot circled the safe house, noting how it was built,
setting targeting coordinates and deciding which bombs to use. The pilot set
his fuses so the bombs would explode inside the house, rather than on contact
with the roof, in order to collapse the structure.
At 6:15 p.m., the F-16 dropped a
500-pound laser-guided GBU-12 bomb on the house, causing a
massive explosion.
Using the cameras in the LITENING
pod, the pilot peered through the smoke to observe the damage and decided a
second bomb was needed. About 30 seconds later, the pilot released a 500-pound GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition that
was guided by Global Positioning System satellite signals. That also hit the
home, leaving the building a smoking pile of rubble.
Iraqi security forces were the first
to arrive on the ground — and found Zarqawi still alive, Caldwell said. They
had placed the terrorist leader on a stretcher just as U.S. troops from
Multi-National Division-North rolled in.
Zarqawi tried to get off the
stretcher. Troops again secured him and attempted to start medical treatment,
but he died within minutes, Caldwell said.
Coalition forces took Zarqawi’s body
to an undisclosed secure location, where his identity was confirmed by scars
and tattoos he was known to have, and by his fingerprints, Caldwell said.
Gathering the puzzle pieces
TF 145 was responsible not only for
gathering the intelligence that led to Zarqawi, but also for acting upon it
swiftly, creating a cycle in which each set of raids yielded more intelligence,
which in turn drove more raids.
Made up of a rotating set of units
from Joint Special Operations Command, the task force, based at Balad, includes
squadrons from the military’s two “direct action” special-mission units — the
Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, better known as Delta
Force, and the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, also known as Naval Special Warfare
Development Group, as well as other Army and Air Force special operations
elements and a variety of intelligence organizations.
The June 7 attack culminated about
six weeks of focused effort.
“We
had clear-enough evidence about a month-and-a-half ago that allowed us to start
[getting] down to the point where we were able to prosecute the action …
against that safe house,” Caldwell said, showing a slide that listed eight men
in Zarqawi’s organization captured or killed between April 6 and May 31.
But judging from Central Command’s
own press releases, Caldwell’s slide only scratches the surface of TF 145
operations in recent weeks.
On April 16, a force of SEALs and
Rangers attacked an al-Qaida in Iraq safe house in Yusufiyah, 20 miles
southwest of Baghdad, killing five terrorists and capturing another five. On
June 2, “wanted al-Qaida terrorist” Hasayn Ali Muzabir was killed near Balad.
Between those two missions,
“coalition forces,” the phrase often used by Central Command to disguise the
participation of TF 145, captured or killed more than 100 members of al-Qaida
in Iraq. Indeed, in a prophetic remark, Army Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch told
reporters in Baghdad on May 4 that the coalition was “zooming in” on Zarqawi.
In Iraq, U.S. special operations forces
have captured former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, tracked his sons Uday and
Qusay to a hide-out where they were killed, and killed Zarqawi — who, because
of the perception that his terrorist organization was such a massive obstacle
to peace in Iraq, had become arguably the highest-priority individual target
for the U.S. in the world.
The question is whether al-Qaida in
Iraq can withstand the loss of its iconic leader, who earned grudging respect
from U.S. special operators for his willingness to lead from the front.
One candidate may be Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Egyptian whom Caldwell said met Zarqawi in
Afghanistan in 2001 or 2002. U.S. operators have intelligence indicating
al-Masri has had close contacts with Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s chief
deputy.
Caldwell said al-Masri “helped
establish maybe the first al-Qaida cell that existed in the Baghdad area.”
Analysts generally agree that
although Zarqawi was the focus of heavy U.S. combat and propaganda efforts, he and
his group were a relatively small facet of the Iraq insurgency and mounted a
relatively small number of attacks.
Those attacks had a disproportionate
effect, both in their violence and their political and sectarian aftermath,
though Zarqawi’s death may reduce the likelihood of his ultimate goal: igniting
a massive civil war between Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority and the Shiite Muslims
who control political life.
But it is also possible that
Zarqawi’s death will create space for other insurgent groups to focus more on
the political process than violence, said Ahmed Hashim, a Naval War College
professor who has written extensively on Iraq’s insurgency. Jeffrey White, an
analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former Defense
Intelligence Agency analyst, said Zarqawi’s death, paradoxically, creates a new
challenge for the Bush administration, which no longer has the specter of
Iraq’s most violent and fanatical terrorist to hold up as its enemy.
“We killed our bogeyman,” White said.
“A lot of effort went into making him enemy number one. If the violence
continues, who do we blame?”
The key, Schnell said, is for
coalition forces to press the advantage and deny the insurgency a new poster
boy. “You have to keep cutting the head off,” he said.
TF 145, of course, is working hard to
do just that. Within hours of Zarqawi’s June 7 death, 17 simultaneous raids
were carried out in and around Baghdad, yielding “a tremendous amount” of
information and intelligence that is “presently being exploited … for further
use,” Caldwell said.
Another 39 operations were conducted
the night of June 8, Caldwell said.
“This is a big oak tree that got
shaken, so there’s stuff falling all over the place,” Schnell said.
The unblinking eye cannot afford to
rest yet.
Staff writers Bruce Rolfsen, Gordon
Trowbridge and Gina Cavallaro contributed to this story.
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1860673.php
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/print.php?f=1-292925-1860673.php
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Official: Zarqawi Eludes Capture;
Computer Discovered
Iraq's Most Wanted Fugitive
on the Run After Leaving Behind Valuable Information
April 25, 2005 — - Jordanian rebel Abu Musab al-Zarqawi --
Iraq's most wanted fugitive -- recently eluded capture by American troops, but
left behind a treasure trove of information, a senior military official told
ABC News.
On Feb. 20, the alleged
terror mastermind was heading to a secret meeting in Ramadi, just west of
Fallujah, where he used to base his operations, the official said.
Task Force 626 -- the
covert American military unit charged with finding Zarqawi -- had troops in
place to grab the fugitive, and mobile vehicle checkpoints had been established
around the city's perimeter. Another U.S. official said predator drones were
also in flight, tracking movements in and around the city.
A source who had been
inside the Zarqawi network alerted the task force to the meeting. Officials
deem the source "extremely credible."
The senior military
official said that just before the meeting was scheduled, a car was pulled over
as it approached a checkpoint.
"Zarqawi always has someone check the waters," said
the official.
A pickup truck about a
half-mile behind the car then quickly turned around and headed in the opposite
direction. Officials now believe Zarqawi was in the fleeing truck. U.S. teams
began a chase, but when the truck was pulled over several miles later, Zarqawi
was not inside.
Zarqawi's Computer
Discovered
What the task force did
find in the vehicle confirmed suspicions that Zarqawi had just escaped. The
official said Zarqawi's computer and 80,000 euros (about $104,000 U.S.) were
discovered in the truck.
Finding the computer,
said the official, "was a seminal event." It
had "a very big hard drive," the official said, and recent pictures
of Zarqawi. The official said Zarqawi's driver and a bodyguard were taken into
custody.
The senior military
official said that they have since learned Zarqawi jumped out of the vehicle
when it passed beneath an overpass, presumably to avoid detection from the air,
and hid there before running to a safe house in Ramadi.
Lt. Gen. John Vines --
the commander responsible for daily military operations in Iraq -- would not
provide any detail about the apparent escape in a recent interview in Baghdad,
but he did say the Zarqawi network has been damaged.
"We believe he is resilient," Vines said. "He is
incredibly evil and we can't forget that. So he is dangerous still, but he is
on the run."
The official told ABC
News they have since figured out which house Zarqawi ran to after his escape,
and the owner has been arrested. But, the official said, every time they
capture one of his supporters, Zarqawi recruits someone new.
ABC News' Martha
Raddatz filed this report for "World News Tonight."
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=701049&page=1
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Jordan Pictures – Courtesy Jordan
Government
Links & Source on Zarqawi Death
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