U.S. forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaida members died in a gunfight — some by their own hand to avoid capture. A U.S. official said Sunday that efforts were under way to determine if terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among the dead.
This would be very good news.
But even if the top murderer in Iraq is not dead, the fact that his minions killed themselves is a good sign. Usually they want to take down infidels before they die. But this time they figured it was better to die than to risk capture trying to kill another infidel.
Morale can't be improving if they feel that hopeless.
UPDATE: Nothing new but in the last several weeks I noticed that several members of the Special Forces were killed in Iraq. I thought it was odd and didn't know what to make of it, but if they were on the trail of Zarqawi these casualties make more sense.
