Precision Strike Destroys Zarqawi Location
Fallujah, Iraq - A center for Abu Musab al Zarqawi terrorist meetings was destroyed today following a successful precision strike.
Multi-National Force-Iraq struck a known Zarqawi location in central Fallujah at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 12. Following the engagement, secondary explosions were reported, indicating the strong liklihood of weapons caches and explosive devices.
Terrorists frequently planned operations from this location. Plans included targeting Iraqi governmental leadership, Iraqi Security Forces, coalition forces and innocent Iraqi citizens.
The location had been under the terrorist organization's control for more than a year and innocent civilians knowingly stayed away. Zarqawi continues to pose a threat to the safety and stability of Fallujah and Iraq. In order to gain more media attention and sway public opinion, Zarqawi has increasingly used suicide bombings, mortar attacks, shootings, kidnappings and beheadings that have claimed hundreds of lives in Iraq in recent months.
Those beheaded by Zarqawi-led terrorists include American businessman, Nicholas Berg, a Korean translator, Kim Sun-II, British civil engineer Kenneth Bigley and U.S. civil engineers Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley.
The Zarqawi terrorist organization also took credit for the bombings that took the lives of over 30 Iraqi children on Sept. 30.
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