NYT | At Site of Attack on Zarqawi, All That's Left Are Questions

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American soldiers Saturday at the site of the house in Hibhib where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in an airstrike on Wednesday night. Two bombs pulverized the brick house.


By DEXTER FILKINS and JOHN F. BURNS
Published: June 11, 2006

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Along with the scraps, it was mostly questions that remained.

Chief among them was how Mr. Zarqawi, the terrorist leader killed Wednesday in the airstrike, could have survived for even a few minutes after the attack, as American officers say he did, when everything else around him was obliterated. Concrete blocks, walls, a fence, tin cans, palm trees, a washing machine: everything at the Hibhib scene was shredded, blown to pieces.

It seemed puzzling, too, given the destruction and the condition of the other bodies, how Mr. Zarqawi's head and upper body — shown on televisions across the world — could have remained largely intact.

With rumors circulating in the Iraqi news media that Mr. Zarqawi had begun to run from the house as the first bomb struck, American officials said Saturday that two military pathologists had arrived in Iraq to perform an autopsy on Mr. Zarqawi's body to determine the precise cause of his death.

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much more: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/world/middleeast/11scene.html

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