War: Iraq Terrorists The Sunni Jordanian leading the slawter of Shi'ites in Iraq has been wounded

Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of the mass murders in Iraq, is said by his aide to have been definitely wounded when cawt in the crossfire of US Marines in a recent campaign to wipe out terrorist nests. Ellen Knickmeyer and Saad Sarhan report in the Washington Post today:

The U.S. military has said several Zarqawi associates have been captured in recent months, including a driver caught in February in western Iraq. The military described the incident as the closest it had come to apprehending Zarqawi, who escaped on foot but left behind his laptop computer and tens of thousands of dollars in cash.

Tho a Zarqawi aide says his chief is being treated by doctors, further word comes that a committee has been named to choose a successor. The committee includes three Saudis and one Iraqi - we are led to believe by Z's aide, Abu Karrar, who continues adeptly to use the Al Quaeda in Iraq group's media-manipulative expertise. The whole story may be a ruse to result in a story where Z survives and returns to action a hero to his Sunni following, mostly Wahhabist sectarians of the Al Quaeda stripe, except for their rabid anti-Shi'ite supertwist.

Were Zarqawi to croak, it could mean the reduction of his cabal's power, in part because he had ferociously insisted that the killing of innocents and noncombatants was a good practice, and wiping out members of the Shi'ite majority was an especially delicious prospect no matter how low a rank in society, no matter how female, and no matter how young. This degree of demonic terrorist ideology is now being questioned by many co-religionists of the Sunni 20% of Iraq, who of late have been regretting their boycott of the recent democratic national elections and lamenting the fact that they don't figure largely on the committee constructed to write Iraq's new constitution by August 15. "The extent of autonomy for regions such as the [Sunni majority] Kurdish-dominated north and the role of Islamic law in determining Iraqui statues," says the WaPo report. - Owlb

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