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White House: "Highly Unlikely" that Zarq was killed
Much background deletedThe U.S. military is conducting tests to determine whether terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among those killed in a weekend raid in northern Iraq, but a White House official called that prospect "highly unlikely." The raid took place Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Sunday. The official said U.S. commanders do not know whether al-Zarqawi -- whom U.S. authorities call al Qaeda's top man in Iraq -- was in the house, which was targeted because suspected al Qaeda members were thought to be inside. Tell the Fat Lady she can go home. In Beijing, China, a stop on President Bush's trip to Asia, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones discounted the prospect of al-Zarqawi's death. "The report is highly unlikely and not credible," he said. Posted by: Jackal 2005-11-20 |
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