US General Calls Account of Zarqawi Beating "Baloney"...

New York Times:

The top American commander in Iraq on Sunday rejected as "baloney" an account by an Iraqi witness who said a dying man resembling Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist leader, had been beaten by American troops after warplanes demolished Mr. Zarqawi's safe house with a pair of bombs on Wednesday evening.

The air assault north of Baghdad in the village of Hibhib, near Baquba, was quick and fierce, but did not immediately kill Mr. Zarqawi. The American military now says he died as troops were trying to save him, after initially saying they found him dead when they arrived.

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