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US, Iraqi Officials Stress Zarqawi Death Not End to Insurgency
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Secretary Rumsfeld says Zarqawi's death is significant

because he was not only in charge of the al-Qaida terrorist network
in Iraq,

but he was also the organization's number three leader worldwide.

"I think arguably, over the last several years,

no single person on this planet has had

the blood of more innocent men, women and children on his hands
than Zarqawi."

Rumsfeld says Zarqawi's death will hurt al-Qaida,
              
but he expects new leadership to emerge,

and attacks in Iraq to continue.

"The death of Zarqawi, while enormously important,

will not mean the end of all violence in that country,

and one ought not to take it as such.

But let there be no doubt, the fact that he is dead

is a significant victory in the battle against terrorism

in that country, and I would say, worldwide."

Rumsfeld says Zarqawi was a key proponent

of what he calls a "dark, sadistic, medieval vision"

that has been rejected by a majority of Iraqis, and Muslims
around the world.

U.S. and Iraqi officials say

the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was killed

in an airstrike by U.S. warplanes

just north of Baghdad Wednesday evening,

while he was meeting with several of his senior advisers.

Iraqi and U.S. forces who went to the scene afterward

were able to recognize Zarqawi's body,

and confirmed his identity through fingerprints.

A statement by the U.S. military says

the information that led to the attack on Zarqawi

came from some of his senior associates.

The coalition commander in Iraq, General George Casey,

says the final push

to find and kill the al-Qaida in Iraq leader

took about two weeks.

Rumsfeld says commanders in Iraq decided to get Zarqawi
with an airstrike,

fearing he might find out about a ground assault and escape.

Still, General Casey says al-Qaida remains a threat,

and the effort to hunt down its members will continue

until in his words "terrorism is eradicated in Iraq."

Also on Thursday, Secretary Rumsfeld spoke

about the nomination of Iraq's new ministers of defense and interior,

the two key security posts in the government.

U.S. officials had acknowledged

that the delay in filling those two posts was hurting efforts

to give more responsibility to Iraq's new security forces.

Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials have spoken

about both the importance of selecting the Iraqi defense and
interior ministers quickly,

and also of the need for them to be competent and independent
of any one faction.


Al Pessin, VOA News, Brussels.
(Material is provided courtesy of voanews.com.)
by danueno | 2006-06-14 11:44 | SIM音読用英文


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