Al-Zarqawi Tracked By Iraq Informants!
This is a great moral victory for the USA. We have eliminated one of the most active and high profile Al Qaeda terrorists in operation today. Yet, some in the MSM are already downplaying this victory and attempting to make it seem as if this is no big deal. We have already seen several of these instances recorded right here on Newsbusters, so I will not rehash them here.
But, one of the most important aspect of this situation is that Zarqawi was tracked and killed because of information from Iraqi informants.
"Tips from senior militants led U.S. forces to follow al-Zarqawi's spiritual adviser to the safe house, 30 miles outside Baghdad, for a meeting with the terror leader."
I wonder how many MSM sources will put this fact front and center in the place of importance it deserves to be placed. We ARE getting help from Iraqis, Iraqis ARE interested in destroying Al Qaieda inside Iraq, and we are NOT the enemy to them there!
Is Zarqawi's death a "big deal"?
YES it IS!
We should also not forget that one of those who died with Zarqawi, advisor Sheik Abdul Rahman, was also a high profile figure in the world of Islamist terror. We took out two very important Al Qaeda terrorists this day.
Will the MSM celebrate? I wouldn't expect it.
UPDATE: 2 PM CST
In an even better twist on the story, we are beginning to find out that the way we tracked down Zarqawi is through information found through interrogation of terror suspects picked up by US operatives in Iraq.
Over the past month, the two key members of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's inner sanctum had been netted by Iraqi and American spies and had gradually begun to talk.
They were caught during an intensified sweep that followed Zarqawi's debut propaganda video on April 26, which for the first time unmasked the Jordanian-born terrorist and gave glimpses of his surroundings."
Shouldn't this put a dent in the claims that we are somehow "failing" to uncover terror cells, or that our interrogations are somehow "useless"?
Again, it is doubtful much will be made of this point by our MSM.
