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To: bentway who wrote (188920)	6/9/2006 12:23:06 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm VERY curious as to why we didn't attempt to capture Zarqarwi. Certainly he must have died with a ton of valuable intelligence in his noggin, as well as his compadres. We knew right where he was, apparently for at least a couple of days. Didn't you read what Hawk said? Zarqawi never stayed anywhere for more than a few hours. His OPSEC was highly advanced, which means he was always surrounded by lookouts. Far better to be sure and kill him than to risk yet another escape.

To: bentway who wrote (188920)	6/9/2006 8:43:11 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm VERY curious as to why we didn't attempt to capture Zarqarwi. Certainly he must have died with a ton of valuable intelligence in his noggin, as well as his compadres. We knew right where he was, apparently for at least a couple of days. My original assumption was that we didn't have the opportunity and needed to use air strikes. But last night I heard the US had surrounded the building with commandos and the Air Force was told to take their time. The same question was asked when Saddam's boys were surrounded. I'm left with the conclusion that we don't make judgements on their value dead vs. alive. Dead is always the priority. I turned off the news fairly early in the day and put it back on late in the evening. Since Zarqawi was the only thing that happened in the world yesterday. I assumed the last half hour of the news would cover it all. A couple of observations. Repeated in the news was the captured letter that OBL was unhappy with Zarqawi for killing innocent Muslims and wanted him to stop. Zarqawi obviously ignored that direction. There was a rumor some time ago in an Iraqi paper that Zarqawi was being demoted to a more tactical operations position with an Iraqi being picked for a more strategic operations leadership role. Never confirmed as far as I know. We also got to see the reruns of the out takes that Zarqawi couldn't handle a SAW. It would be a bizarre event of war, if OBL after seeing the SAW footage turned to Zawahiri and said .... This guy is an embarrassment to Allah. He's killing fellow Muslims, he won't take directions to stop, and now this! He can't even handle a gun! Have one of our Sunni cells turn him in to the Americans. At least we can get some mileage out of making him a martyr and the $25M reward would come in handy. jttmab