If the reports are true Zarqawi’s imminent demise and the subsequent leaderlessness of his Al Qaeda followers will be a great boost for the majority of the Iraqi people who are in favour of international co-operation and against civil war.
Here’s a potted history of his groups accomplishments:
“It carried out the suicide bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, the beheading of Western citizens, the series of assassinations of senior Iraqi officials and the murder of scores of Shia Muslims with the intention of provoking sectarian conflict.”
‘By any means they find to be neccessary’ as his supporters in the West like to say…