Abu Musab al Zarqawi was alive, even conscious, when coalition forces arrived at the site of the bombing, a U.S. military officer told Fox News Friday morning. | Good, he had time to suffer |
Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell told Fox & Friends that Iraqi police were the first to arrive on the scene, and they found Zarqawi in the rubble -- the only one to have survived the initial attack. He said Zarqawi even tried to roll off a stretcher at one point, when he realized who his rescuers were. | "Feet, don't fail me....Hey, where are they?" |
When U.S. troops arrived on the scene, they recognized Zarqawi, who died "a short time thereafter." That's all Caldwell said about it. At a military briefing on Thursday, U.S. officials said Zarqawi died in the bombing, although some press reports on Thursday indicated that he lived for a short time after the attack. The confirmation that he lived for a short time follows additional debriefings of troops who were there, Caldwell told Fox News. U.S. military officials were holding another briefing in Baghdad Friday morning. |