The Z-Man Lived! (For a little while)

Contributed by: filbert Monday, June 12 2006 @ 07:14 AM CST

So now we learn that the barbarian murderer al-Zarqawi lived for nearly an hour[*1] after the U.S. bombs fell on him.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes after a U.S. warplane bombed his hideout northeast of Baghdad, and he died of extensive internal injuries consistent with those caused by a bomb blast, the U.S. military said Monday.

Col. Steve Jones, command surgeon for Multinational Forces, said an autopsy concluded that al-Zarqawi died from serious injuries to his lungs. An
FBI test positively identified al-Zarqawi’s remains.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, said U.S. forces arrived about 28 minutes after a fighter jet bombed al-Zarqawi’s hideout outside Baqouba on Wednesday. Medics secured al-Zarqawi’s airway but his breathing was shallow and labored, and he expelled blood from his mouth.

There’s every chance that he knew who killed him.  He can take that knowledge to whatever Hell awaits him.  Good.