1 Nice biography on Zarqawi. It makes him out to be a saint.

2 Holy freakin schneike!

3 Yup that's Zaqueery.

4 Check the shirt collar. The Zark suffers from the Arab national allergy to soap and water.

5 Will the main stream press be as eager to get this info to the public as they were about touting "no weapons" or 'Abu Graib photos'? I don't think so!

6 Can someone please explain why information like this has taken so long to reach the public, and why it is in the interest of the Bush administration to withhold it? Why do we question the mainstream media on this, after all they haven't had the information. However the White House has. What's going on?

7 You guys have very short little memories. The administration had a chance to take out Zarqawi when he was a sitting duck in northern Iraq at the beginning of the war but the idea was shot down by the NSC. His camps were there, we knew where they were, but some bright guy in the Pentagon decided not to get him. According to several sources, the Pentagon had pushed to "take out" Zarqawi's operation at least three times prior to the invasion of Iraq, but had been vetoed by the National Security Council. The council's decision was made because they thought it would make it harder to convince other countries to join the US in a coalition against Iraq. "People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the presidentÂ’s policy of preemption against terrorists," said former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.

8 Mike - information like this has to be properly vetted and when information of this import has been passed to the media inthe past, they don't run with it.

9 It's the same picture. Isn't that odd?

10 No, it's not really that odd at all. There are few photographs of Zarqawi in circulation. The mug shot of him is probably the one that best shows his facial features, so it probably gets passed around the most.

11 Quote: "Will the main stream press be as eager to get this info to the public as they were about touting "no weapons" or 'Abu Graib photos'? I don't think so!" Posted by: Ron Ruckman at March 16, 2006 12:55 PM Are you that eager ? You notice how the photo looks rather mug-shot-ish ? That is because it is. The report states Saddam had that photo issued to his forces so they could identify and arrest Zarqawi. Yeah talk it up guys. That the link between Saddam and Zarqawi was that he was taking the same action against him in 2002 that the US is in 2006. Yeah that REALLY helps. If you were smarter you might notice your foot is missing from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

12 Geoff, Mug Shots are taken AFTER you are arrested. You might be correct, but other terrorists also were allowed into Iraq and even had offices there. Check out Michael Totten's web page where he talks about the Kurdish town where Zarqawi was before the war. So, we could have possibly taken him out in the beginning.

13 It's possible that these mug shots were taken when Zarqawi was in Jordanian custody before being released in a general amnesty after King Hussein died in 1999.