| Zarqawi Said Still Alive After Airstrike
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still alive when Iraqi police arrived at a site that was bombed by U.S. forces, a top-level spokesman for American military forces said Friday.
Brig Gen. Bill Caldwell, briefing military reporters at the Defense Department from his post in Baghdad, said he learned that al-Zawqari was alive after getting briefings on the military operation that netted al-Zarqawi and several others.
"He mumbled something but it was indistinguishable and it was very short," Caldwell said. |