Let's hope this has a direct effect on slowing down the insurgency. <br><br>NYT story<br><br><br><br>

Expectations are relatively low on that score, since so much of the violence for the past several months has been sectarian. Just the same, glad he's been *cough* retired.<br><br>

[censored] and the Sunnis.<br><br>

&[censored] and the Sunnis<p><hr></blockquote><p><br>Think you'll find that the shiites and sunnis are quite capable of holding their own civil war without any assistance from outside.<br><br><br>- This is gonna get pretty interesting. <br>- Define "interesting". <br>- Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die..

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Think you'll find that the shiites and sunnis are quite capable of holding their own civil war without any assistance from outside.<p><hr></blockquote><p>I don't dispute that. <br>But al-Zarqawi wasn't helping matters.<br>In his tape that was made available only a few days ago al-Zarqawi said that Sunni militias were raping women and killing Sunnis and that the Sunnis must fight back.<br>His intention was to enflame Shiite-Sunni tensions.<br>Al-Zarqawi's Sunni insurgents targeted Shiite civilians and mosques. <br>One of his objects was to sabotage any effort to form a united government.<br>But this isn't anything new.<br><br>

Unfortunately I suspect it will actually intensify things in the immediate future before it has a tapering effect.<br><br>But good job to those who finally got him!<br><br>

<br><br>Fox News<br><br>***********************<br>[color:red]Nice Try</font color=red>

i agree. while he was alive, the trend towards civil war was largely subverted by pointing out that al zarqawi was at the root of much of the violence being generated by sunnis -- zarqawi was an "external" source to blame. now the sunnis will bear more of the brunt of the retaliation for their insurgency. <br><br>--<br>"I am mindful that diversity is one of the strengths of the country" --president bush on 9/27/05

The liberal rag didn't have a good enough graphic? <br><br>(Your link to a real news source is broken, btw.)<br><br>

Actually, Zarqawi has been dead for months. Bush pulled him out of the Oval Office freezer, flew to Iraq on NeoCon 1 and placed Zarqawi in the rubble to hypnotically distract everyone from the sagging poll numbers. It's all part of the plan. <br><br>***********************<br>[color:red]Nice Try</font color=red>