One For the Good Guys

Unless visiting this website is the first thing you do every morning, you probably know that Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi -- the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq -- was killed by a U.S. airstrike yesterday. Not only that, he was killed in Andrew’s backyard. My mom woke me up with the news at 6:45 this morning, and she was sobbing uncontrollably as she headed to work. Meanwhile I sat up and started to scour my sites to confirm the story. I never got back to bed. I haven’t spoken to him, so I have no idea if he had any involvement in the grand scheme of things (he did promise he would kill Zarqawi a while back), but whether he did or not this is a victory for the U.S. military. And lord knows they could use one of those every once in a while. I don’t necessarily think Andrew is going to write any more e-mails before he leaves Iraq, but if he does, hopefully he can give us more details then. If not, in a couple of weeks we can ask him when he gets home.