Thanks, Dilatorines, for posting a quote from a second witness that he saw US soldiers interrogating 'Zarqawi'. It is consistent with what the other Iraqi, Mohammed, said, although not confirming his claim that they beat him to death. In my view, the soldiers checked that he was not wearing a suicide belt, then pummeled him to death. Although I know not everyone regards them as reliable, for what it is worth I will mention that Cloak&Dagger.com is reporting that 'Zarqawi' (in reality the latest surrogate run by CIA/MI6 as an agent provocateur) was shot at a police station, then brought and dumped in the ruins of the house. When the soldiers arriving on the scene discovered he was still alive, they beat him to death. Whether this was through anger because of the atrocities 'Zarqawi' had committed in the past or because they were under orders to kill him so that he would not need to be taken to hospital, where doctors would discover that he still had two good legs and therefore could not be the REAL Zarqawi, I don't know. The whole affair is extremely suspicious. Common sense tells us that everything would have been done medically to save him because of the information he had about al-Qaeda. But this supposes he was the real thing. As it looks likely that he WAS beaten to death, this can only mean one thing: the Americans did not want him alive despite the intelligence he could give them. This in turns indicates that he was NOT the real Zarqawi and therefore had to "be exterminated with extreme prejudice."