Death Of A Terrorist

al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — APTN/US Military

An image of the dead body of al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is shown to the media at a press conference in Baghdad Thursday, June 8, 2006, announcing the death of the terrorist mastermind. Al-Zarqawi, who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings, was killed in an air raid north of Baghdad.

This image displayed by the U.S. Military at a press conference in Baghdad, Thursday, June 8, 2006 purports to show the location at the time of attack of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda-linked militant who was killed Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike.

Iraqi men and boys sift through rubble at the scene near the town of Hibhib, northwest of Baqouba, following a U.S. air raid in which Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, was killed, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced Thursday, June 8, 2006.

Iraqi men walk through the scene near the town of Hibhib, northwest of Baqouba, following a U.S. air raid in which Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, was killed Wednesday, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced Thursday, June 8, 2006.

Iraqis search the rubble at the scene Thursday, June 8 2006, following a U.S. air raid in which Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, was killed, Iraq's prime minister announced. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed Wednesday evening along with seven aides north of Baghdad.

An image from TV of the scene Thursday, June 8, 2006, following a U.S. air raid in which Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda-linked militant who led a bloody campaign in Iraq, was killed. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed Wednesday along with seven aides north of Baghdad. The Jordanian-born militant was Iraq's most wanted terrorist. The United States had put a $25 million bounty on al-Zarqawi.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, right, applaud after al-Maliki announced the news at a press conference in the in Baghdad, Thursday, June 8, 2006 that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings, had been killed in an air raid north of Baghdad.

Iraqi soldiers celebrate the news that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings, had been killed in an air raid north of Baghdad, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Thursday, June 8, 2006.

Iraqi police officers and an elderly woman fire guns in the air to celebrate the news that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and kidnappings, has been killed in an air raid north of Baghdad, in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq Thursday, June 8, 2006. One of the police officers gave his pistol to the elderly woman so that she could join in the celebrations.

President Bush speaks about the death of al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Thursday, June 8, 2006, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington.

Two veiled Jordanian women, reportedly Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's sisters, enter his house in Zarqa, east of Amman, Jordan, Thursday, June 8. 2006. Members of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's family gathered Thursday to mourn the death of the notorious al Qaeda in Iraq leader who they had disavowed last year after an attack on civilians in Jordan.

An image made from video originally posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006, on the Internet shows al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in one of the most recent photos of the terror leader. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced at a news conference Thursday June 8, 2006, that the Jordanian-born terrorist mastermind had been killed.

Iraqis sit below posters featuring wanted insurgents and their supporters including of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in this Jan. 12. 2005 file photo taken in Baghdad. Al-Zarqawi, featured in the two picture combo poster fourth from right, was killed in an air raid north of Baghdad Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Iraq's prime minister and U.S. officials said his identity was confirmed by fingerprints and a first-hand look at his face.

Jordanian-born terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi seen in these undated file photos - the photo at left released in Amman, Jordan, Dec. 14, 2002, the photo at right released by the State Department in September 2004. Al-Zarqawi became Iraq's most wanted militant, as notorious as Osama bin Laden, to whom he swore allegiance in 2004. The United States put a $25 million bounty on al-Zarqawi, the same as bin Laden.