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In the wake of Abu Musab Zarqawi's death, mainstream media organs like the New York Times and Newsweek have run chronologies of the archterrorist's life that omit mention of his stay in Baghdad in 2002, while others, including the Associated Press, have attempted to discredit the Bush administration's claims that Zarqawi was a link between Iraq and al Qaeda. As Stephen Hayes shows in the Weekly Standard, the AP account is wrong. While the full extent of Zarqawi's connections with Baghdad are still a matter of debate, it is false to assert, as AP and others have done since Zarqawi's...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday his government will give weapons to local tribesmen so they can help fight the biggest increase in Taliban violence in years. [0] A U.S.-led coalition soldier and seven Afghan civilians were killed in the latest violence in the country's south, which has been hardest hit by the surge in insurgent attacks. Speaking to a group of tribal elders from eastern Afghanistan, Karzai said he did not want to form militias that could clash with rival tribes. "We just want to strengthen the districts to safeguard them from terrorist attack," he said....

With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq. But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger. ...... Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

I'm in the airport once again suffering from the CNN Airport Terminal monopoly. It seems to me that CNN is more interested in subtly strressing Who Al-Zarqawi was and sort of giving him praisies rather than degrading him even more by focusing in on how the US troops tracked him down and killed him! And of course that have the idiot Congressman Muderer on.