Report: al-Zarqawi Could Be Captured Any Moment
The Sunday Observer reports that Abu Musal al-Zarqawi, the most hunted terrorist in Iraq, may be captured at any moment. The paper says he is in hiding in Kirkuk in Northern Iraq.
He came to Kirkuk from Mosul,' a source in the Kirkuk police department told Reuters yesterday, speaking anonymously. 'There's a possibility that he might be captured at any moment.'
What then? What difference will his capture make? Apparently not much, in terms of the war.
The claims came as British officials poured cold water on hopes of substantial early withdrawal from Iraq, and suggested that Britain could be involved in Iraq for decades. It also followed an increasingly inevitable day of further violence across the country.
'I think there is now a realisation that we underestimated issues such as the level of criminality in Iraq and how that feeds into its instability and feeds its violence,' said one British official last week. 'There is an understanding now that this is a decades-long problem and we will be there for a long time.'
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