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Article: Will it make a difference? The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.(The death in Iraq of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 10, 2006
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The killing of Iraq's bloodiest terrorist leader will boost the new government of Nuri al-Maliki--but not necessarily for long
ON JUNE 7th, American troops killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the self-proclaimed boss of al-Qaeda in Iraq, in an airstrike near the central town of Baquba. Though details of the killing were still hazy, early reports suggested that Mr Zarqawi was holed up in an obscure hut, hidden by palm-trees; and that his remains were identified by sight and by finger-prints. Hazy, too, is the effect this will have on the insurgency and sectarian war boiling in Iraq. Mr Zarqawi's death will not end the terrible violence, nor perhaps will it even reduce it ...