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Not really.

Tom Brosz — 6/12/2006 3:34:47 PM (archived)

I used to think that about Saddam, too, but to the best of my knowledge, we got very little useful intelligence out of him, and he's making his trial into a media circus and still rallying followers. Zarqawi in a jail cell would be almost as dangerous as Zarqawi outside one. We picked up a lot of useful information from the place he was in, and from a lot of other raids.

Oddly, Zarqawi was famous, at least according to his publicity, for constantly wearing a "suicide belt" filled with explosives, even sleeping in it. What happened to that?

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AP: Al-Zarqawi Lived for 52 Mins. After Strike - Donald - 6/12/2006 1:36:34 PM
- Media Bad Timing Department... - Tom Brosz - 6/13/2006 6:13:23 PM
  - now the story is that Zarqawi's death "won't change anything." - David F Mayer - 6/13/2006 7:50:36 PM
  - More on the media's sudden "180" on Zarqawi's importance - Tom Brosz - 6/13/2006 6:20:06 PM
    - Conveniently ignoring the admin/military - Tony - 6/13/2006 7:08:33 PM
      - Doesn't invalidate the examples I showed. - Tom Brosz - 6/13/2006 7:53:32 PM
      - Al Qaeda will certainly be hurt. That does NOT mean - David F Mayer - 6/13/2006 7:52:14 PM
- Via a milblogger - Tom Brosz - 6/12/2006 7:08:09 PM
- He was worth more alive than dead. (n/t) - ER - 6/12/2006 3:26:44 PM
  - Not really. - Scott Evil - 6/12/2006 6:50:40 PM
  - Not really. - Tom Brosz - 6/12/2006 3:34:47 PM
    - Perhaps he had a "wardrobe malfunction." (n/t) - McFly - 6/12/2006 5:05:09 PM
    - I suppose that he sent it to the cleaners to be laundered. - David F Mayer - 6/12/2006 5:00:27 PM
- The most important things about this attack, IMHO, are: - David F Mayer - 6/12/2006 2:03:33 PM
  - re: The most important things about this attack, IMHO, are: - LJK - 6/12/2006 8:23:43 PM
  - The first casualty - ER - 6/12/2006 3:43:43 PM

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