And we needed to know this because?

Oh jeez...they are going to milk this one. This just appeared on the NYT front page:

Zarqawi Briefly Survived After Airstrike

I am still trying to figure out how his body was in one piece after two five hundred pound bombs were dropped on the house. It was a pile of rubble.

Buried in this story...same ol' same ol':

The country's new Interior Minister, Jawad al-Bolani, oversaw the imposition of a ban on vehicle traffic in the cities of Baghdad and Baquba during midday, in an effort to prevent reprisal attacks by Mr. Zarqawi's supporters against the crowds gathering for Friday services.

The streets were quiet, but the authorities did report a scattering of violence in the morning, of the sort that is often overshadowed by bigger attacks: two bombs wounded two police officers and four civilians, the bodies of four men and five women were found in different neighborhoods and the Interior Ministry reported that the director general of the ministry of oil had been kidnapped on Thursday afternoon on his way home from work.

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