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Amanpour knows of many, many others to fill in for Z-man
Has interviewed them, had them to tea ....
Even though Zarqawi, the face, potentially the operational head, certainly the morale booster, the recruiting head of al Qaeda in Iraq, has now been eliminated, there are many, many others who are there to fill the operational gaps.

Certainly we have seen this over the past several years since the insurgency has taken hold, that with every announcement of the death or the capture or the killing of senior figures in these movements, it does not signify a downturn in the intensity of the insurgency.

Rather it continues, and some would say it continues to get stronger.

As Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari acknowledged, it is not just al Qaedaism that is creating this violence in Iraq right now and this incredible instability but it is this now almost entrenched homegrown sectarian violence which is happening to a great extent within the within the Shia community, between Shia and Sunni and vice versa, militia, revenge squads, death squads, all this kind of thing that is going on unabated and unchecked until now.

It's a huge moment but it is a moment which is as important for the internal sectarian strife as it is for the killing of the leader of the foreign jihadis in Iraq.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-06-08
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