At Zarqawi Site, All That Is Left Are Questions - New York Times
At Zarqawi Site, All That Is Left Are Questions - New York Times: "HIBHIB, Iraq, June 10 — The two 500-pound bombs that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi pulverized the brick house where he spent his final minutes, vaporizing walls and the foundation, hurling concrete blocks 300 feet into the weeds and blasting a crater 40 feet wide and deep.
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'A big hole, sir,' said Sgt. Major Gary Rimpley, 46, of Penrose, Colo., who reached the scene about 90 minutes after the bombs fell.
On Saturday, three days after the airstrike that ended the life of Mr. Zarqawi, Iraq's most feared terrorist leader, the scene here was a bit tidier than in those first minutes after the attack: the bodies of the six people, including a child, who American officers say died in the strike, were gone. The most useful bits of intelligence had been carted away. The crater, once a gaping cavern, had been reduced by bulldozer to a mere ditch.
Still, given the extraordinary destruction evident at the house, a number of questions lingered, including how anyone could have survived such an attack, even for a few minutes, as American and Iraqi officials say Mr. Zarqawi did. It seemed puzzling, too, surveying the destruction, how Mr. Zar"
--NY Times points out the obvious ... Mr. Z (ia) ... was stronger than cement and bricks.
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'A big hole, sir,' said Sgt. Major Gary Rimpley, 46, of Penrose, Colo., who reached the scene about 90 minutes after the bombs fell.
On Saturday, three days after the airstrike that ended the life of Mr. Zarqawi, Iraq's most feared terrorist leader, the scene here was a bit tidier than in those first minutes after the attack: the bodies of the six people, including a child, who American officers say died in the strike, were gone. The most useful bits of intelligence had been carted away. The crater, once a gaping cavern, had been reduced by bulldozer to a mere ditch.
Still, given the extraordinary destruction evident at the house, a number of questions lingered, including how anyone could have survived such an attack, even for a few minutes, as American and Iraqi officials say Mr. Zarqawi did. It seemed puzzling, too, surveying the destruction, how Mr. Zar"
--NY Times points out the obvious ... Mr. Z (ia) ... was stronger than cement and bricks.
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