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Insider tip-off led to Zarqawi's death
7:26 AM June 9
A tip-off from within Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's circle enabled US forces to "deliver justice" against the most wanted militant in Iraq with two 500 pound bombs.
The US military says it tracked Zarqawi's spiritual adviser Abdel Rahman to a safe house, where the Al Qaeda frontman in Iraq was meeting his senior aides.
But the US military also says it has used electronic eavesdropping and spies to monitor Zarqawi's closest associates in an operation that began at the end of 2004.
Before the air strike was called in, the US military says it had 100 per cent certainty that Zarqawi was inside the house.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld justified the decision to launch the deadly strike by two F-16 jets, rather than try to capture Zarqawi.
Top commanders "came to a conclusion that they could not really go in on the ground without running the risk of having him (Zarqawi) escape, so they used air power and attacked the dwelling that he was in, having a meeting," Mr Rumsfeld said.
Major General Bill Caldwell, spokesman for Multi-National Forces in Iraq, says Zarqawi, his spiritual adviser Rahman, a woman and child were among the dead.
An Egyptian named Abu al-Masri is thought to be the next in line to command the Al Qaeda network in Iraq.
The US military says it has gleaned a large amount of information about the network from a series of 17 raids staged around the same time as the air strike.
Source: ABC/AFP
Arabman and Aiman tip off led to Muslim killer death-Zarqawi
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