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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Sic Semper Beheaders

BAGHDAD, June 8 -- Abu Musab Zarqawi, leader of one of the most entrenched insurgent operations in Iraq, has been killed, Prim Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced Thursday. - Washington Post, June 8, 2006
See, kids? Decapitation doesn't pay.

There seem to be some intriguing ministerial portfolios in the new Iraqi government.

But get this:
An Interior Ministry inspector general, who refused to be identified, said an aide of Zarqawi was arrested last night in a raid by U.S. and Iraqi special-operations forces. The aide led U.S. and Iraqi officials to a site outside Baghdad, the Interior Ministry official said. After a fierce firefight, authorities entered the site and found the bodies of 13 people. The captured aide identified one as Zarqawi.
So let's get this straight. You are an aide to a guy with a $25 million price on his head. You are arrested. You immediately give up your boss. Presumably, you get nothing. Lesson: If you're going to sell the guy out anyway, why not get paid $25 million for it?

Or, maybe he is getting the money and the "arrest" was just window-dressing.


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