The top bomb-maker for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed in Fallujah, Fox News learned Monday. The bomb-making lieutenant, whose name wasn’t released, died in a gun battle at a terrorist safe house late last week, military sources told Fox. The military officer’s death is significant because Al-Zarqawi is the man believed to have masterminded a number of recent attacks against the coalition in Iraq. Civil affairs soldiers were passing out election pamphlets in Fallujah, just west of Baghdad, when someone began shooting from a nearby house, sources told Fox. That’s when Task Force 121, part of U.S. Special Forces, was called in. After a short gun battle, two people were killed — including the Zarqawi lieutenant and one of the soldiers passing out the brochures. A handful of others were captured. Full Story
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