Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in air raid north of Baghdad

My understanding is they also got seven of his assistants, so this could slow them down for a bit, but that's likely all.
 
I think that you would be surprised. They say that someone would probably take his place, but look at it this way. Now that he's killed, who's going to want to take his place? Yes they are trained for that sort of thing, but when you have a major leader go down anywhere, it's hard to rebuild after that. So, I see it going on in one of two ways. A) They will rebuild but it will take longer this time around. B) Their main person is gone now, and they don't have anyone strong enough to take his place. I guess we'll see! But it's great news for us either way for right now anyways!
 
Spitfire said:
But as one Iraqi says someone will just take his place and the same is probably true of Bin Laden if he should be found and killed
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. . . couldn't have happened to a "nicer" guy!!!!!
 
Heard an interesting interview on NPR last night.

The father of the first guy al-Zarqawi ... dispatched ... was talking about how he forgave his son's killer. Apparently the father is an anti-war activist. He and his son disagreed on the son going over to Iraq to help rebuild the country. The father said that at first he was extremely angry with al-Zarqawi after his son's death, yet he took a course on forgiveness which has enabled him to get beyond the loss. He actually finds other people equally responsibile for his son's death. The father talked relatively calmly through out the interview, and said al-Zarqawi's death had been difficult for him as well knowing that even he had family.
 
Given what Zarqawi DID to his son, I can't for the life of me imagine forgivness...I had the great displeasure of hearing the video that went along with that (I didn't realize I was actually listening to *that* when it was on) and there's no way in he-l-l, as a parent, I could ever forgive that. I don't care if he has a family.
 
I heard him interviewed by a local radio station. He said that he's a complete pacifist and does not believe in killing under any circumstances even in self defense or in defense of another person. My guess (he didn't say this) is that his world view includes forgiveness under any circumstance as well. I guess he couldn't achieve this under this extreme stress so he took a class. I wouldn't be able to forgive either.
 
Joe said:
He was brainwashed into forgiving.
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No I don't think so. I think that he had some counseling and that sometimes does help people. I for one cannot forgive people that have hurt me personally. So, I would find it hard to forgive if anything like this ever happened to me!
 
I used to be that way when I was younger, especially when hurt by someone close. But I discovered that forgiving actually benefited me as much as the person I was forgiving. I walked around with a lot of anger and forgiveness is what enabled me to let it go and achieve a level of happiness and contentment that I had not had before. It's healing. Having said that, if someone messed with my kids, it would be considerably hard for me to forgive.
 
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