Saturday, June 10, 2006

The Huffington Post's Weekly Digest 6.9.06

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Murtha: "We Cannot Win This...It Is A Civil War...Al Qaeda Is A Small Part Of This"...

From media.t1host.net

Few people will mourn the death of infamous Al Qaeda terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed by US troops in Iraq on Wednesday, but some politicians would like the Bush administration to focus on the future of Iraq.

Administration officials marked Zarqawi's death as a victory, but warned that the insurgency in Iraq is far from over. Although Zarqawi has been a "real thorn" in the American side, violence in Iraq stems from a number of groups, many of them not linked to Al Qaeda. Zarqawi's death may have symbolic importance in the United States, but Representative John P. Murtha (D-Penn.), a former Marine and fierce critic of the Iraq war, emphasized, "We cannot win this. It is a civil war they are involved in. Al Qaeda is a small part of this."

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