So Al-Zarqawi got owned...

    Won't change much I guess; it has more of a PR effect for the US (and the other side) than anything else, since the groups operating in Iraq are so loosely connected that it would have much of an effect on the groups' abilities.

    He will be replaced and is already being celebrated as a martyr, so, meh.

    Nothing much of a change.

    How can they be absolutely sure he's dead though, or that he was even at the place they attacked? Though hopefully he is dead, as if it will make any differance if he is.

    Besides the obvious visual match (the guy looks exactly like sarqawi) they finger printed him and ID'ed his scars and tatoos with the description they had and they got a match on all counts.

    They are also doing DNA tests to be absolutely sure which should be ready within the next 2 days. Also, Al Qaeda has already confirmed the death on their website

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    How can they be absolutely sure he's dead though, or that he was even at the place they attacked? Though hopefully he is dead, as if it will make any differance if he is.

    They already pulled dental records and birthmarks off of the body. After the US has put so out so many of those "we think we killed blah blah blah" only to be proven wrong later, you know they did their fact checking first before announcing something this big.

    Apparently, most of the top aides were with him at the time, so whoever is going to be filling in the power void is going to be from the B team.

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    Breaking news: Zarqawi died struggling on a stretcher

    RD, in what way he died doesn't really matter.. It's not like he is alive just because he died on a stretcher, or he wouldn't be alive if he got shot 3 times into his skull etc.His dead, and nobody really cares about if he died on a stretcher struggling or whatever.

    Oh yeah,

    The way he died IS interesting in all ways!

    It's not only morbidly interesting but it can also deliver some fine details about what the groundforces then knew about the situation and what mistakes might have been made.

    But whatever..

    Word is that he has been beaten to death by groundforces. To be more precise: kicked to death. I couldn't care less. That's excactly what he deserved and what he got coming to him. Only downside on it is that he could have been tortured for any usefull information..

    It DID btw surprise me that he had any tattoos. For a muslimfundamentalist thats screwed up. According to muslimbelieves, tattoos are a mutilation of whats supposed to be the temple of allah?

    Al-Zarqawi had a history of doing things against Islamic tradition. In his youth he drank excessively and got tattoos. This was before he went to Afghanistan to fight in the Mujahideen.

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    Apparently, most of the top aides were with him at the time, so whoever is going to be filling in the power void is going to be from the B team.

    That doesn't really matter. As far as the Iraqi insurgency, Al-Zarqawi's activities were anything but A-list. His group makes up what is a small percentage of the insurgency, and in my opinion his importance is grossly over-inflated. That being said, his death is obviously welcome news and hopefully the reaction from Iraq is equally as over-inflated, in the "good" direction.

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