NBC News' intrepid Pentagon Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski reports this morning that despite warnings now-slain terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi was overseeing the making of ricin from his northern Iraq redoubt, U.S. forces passed on taking him out three times.
The reason, it is thought, was that Zarqawi was more valuable alive as a symbol of Iraq's ties to Al-Qaeda than dead.
Of course when Zarqawi started to pop up prominently on the radar screen just after 9/11, he wasn't hiding only...
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