Quote Originally Posted by DeadEyes
This appeats to me to be a win,win,win,win,win situation.
1. It would appear it was other insurgents who grassed him up. So they got rid of someone whose main objective in Iraq was to wipe out Sunnis.
2. The U.S. Military got a minor victory in their "war on terror".
3. Al Zarqawi got his martyrdom.
4. His group now have a new role model.
5. And The Sunnis might feel a little bit safer.
I'd say it was a bit more than a minor victory. They also raided 19 other insurgent safehouses simultaneously based on intel from the same guy that gave they Al Zarqwari. That's freaking huge. Consider all of the intel and other info they can squeeze out of the guys they captured, plus whatever info was laying around the houses. JDAMing Al Zarqawi was just a pretty bow for the press. The real present was nabbing all of those other people.

Think of it this way. If someone wanted to know how to destroy your computer network. Should they kidnap you, or kidnap your companies president?