The thug is dead. The world is a better place because of it. May Zarqawi rot in a very hot place for eternity.

Switching to CNN live, you can't help notice that this disrupts the doom and gloom media's negative spin on things in Iraq, and that they are already broadcasting that this, of course, "won't necessarily mean an end to the violence in Iraq." Of course it won't, but the head of the terror machine in Iraq has been decapitated, and this cannot help but cause disarray and dismay among those holding to Al Qaeda terror ideology.

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