I guess he was just outside the house or in some sheltered location when the bombs hit, so he briefly survived before heading off to his infernal reward.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist who led an al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Iraq, initially survived an airstrike that targeted his hideout north of Baghdad Wednesday, then died on a stretcher as U.S. troops prepared to give him medical assistance, a U.S. general said today.

Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, a top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said Zarqawi tried to roll off the stretcher and had to be restrained, mumbling something unintelligible, before he died of wounds received when a U.S. Air Force F-16 dropped two 500-pound bombs on his safe house late Wednesday. Initial reports were that Zarqawi died instantly in the bombing, which Caldwell said killed five other people, including three women.

I take great pleasure in the fact that among the last things he saw in life were American military personnel proving that the Judeo-Christian values upon which our nation was founded are superior to the Jihadi-Islamist values which he served -- because rather than beheading their prisoner, our troops were trying to ensure that al-Zarqawi received medical treatment that would allow his survival. The traditional Christian notion of corporal works of mercy trumped the Sixth Pillar of Jihadi Islam, the spreading of terror.

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