I don't know....so how can you know??? Time Magazine reports yesterday that a small Delta Force team of U.S. soldiers was close enough to determine that Zarqawi did not leave the house before they called in an airstrike. Today, Gen. Caldwell says that U.S. troops did not arrive until 28 minutes after the air strike, just 24 minutes before Zarqawi died.
The U.S. Army tells us that Zarqawi died of lung injuries, alleged "proof" that he was not "beaten to death", but is it "proof" that he was not beaten?
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/zarqawi/060612-autopsy.htm
Zarqawi Autopsy Brief
.....Al-Zarqawi, Jones said, died from closed space primary blast injuries. These injuries included rupturing of the eardrums along with hemorrhaging in the lungs. Bruises, abrasions and lacerations were also found on the head, body and extremities with a fractured leg.......
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...webzarq12.html
Military says al-Zarqawi lived 52 minutes after strike
By Kim Gamel
The Associated Press
....Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, <b>said U.S. forces arrived about 28 minutes after</b> a fighter jet bombed al-Zarqawi's hideout outside Baqouba. Medics secured al-Zarqawi's airway but his breathing was shallow and labored, and he expelled blood from his mouth.
"It was very evident he had extremely massive internal injuries," Caldwell said.
<b>Al-Zarqawi died 24 minutes after coalition forces arrived, he said......</b>
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...202929,00.html
How They Killed Him
Posted Sunday, Jun 11, 2006
....Fewer than half a dozen members of a U.S. reconnaissance and surveillance team from Delta Force hid in a grove of date and palm trees, <b>watching the building.</b> After years of hunting, <b>they finally had the prey in their sights.</b>
But almost as soon as they took up position, the commandos feared they were about to lose him. A special-operations source tells TIME that the surveillance team was worried that there wasn't enough time to assemble a ground assault force to raid the house and capture al-Zarqawi; the commandos at the site lacked sufficient manpower and weaponry to attack on their own. As dusk neared, the team fretted al-Zarqawi might slip away if they waited too long. A knowledgeable Pentagon official says <b>the Delta team "saw one group come into the house and one group exit." Al-Zarqawi was not in the departing group, but the commandos were afraid he might be in the next one. The recon unit's leader radioed his superiors to request an air strike.....</b>
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