NBC Nightly News - 2006-06-08 - al-Zarqawi death
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[0:00] Tom Cameron's great success.
[0:02] >> That athlete, is it going to John
[0:03] [music] Cena?
[0:03] >> Tom Brokaw.
[0:05] Zarqawi has been killed. Iraq's most
[0:07] wanted terrorist killed in a US
[0:09] airstrike. Tonight, how he was found,
[0:12] how the operation was carried out, and
[0:14] how the world is reacting. The president
[0:17] calls the death a severe blow, but warns
[0:20] the insurgency will go on.
[0:23] The Al-Qaeda connection, Zarqawi's
[0:25] complicated, sometimes competitive
[0:27] relationship with Osama bin Laden.
[0:30] Home front high, an American high school
[0:33] where the war in Iraq is more than just
[0:35] stories on television.
[0:38] And cancer vaccine, a big breakthrough
[0:41] in women's health. The FDA gives final
[0:44] approval to a vaccine that prevents
[0:46] cervical cancer.
[0:49] >> [music]
[0:51] >> From NBC News world headquarters in New
[0:54] York, this is NBC Nightly News with
[0:58] Brian Williams.
[0:59] >> Good evening. It was dinner time in
[1:01] Iraq. Two American F-16 pilots were
[1:04] given a very specific target, a house in
[1:07] the middle of a grove of orange and date
[1:10] trees. Minutes later, two 500-lb bombs
[1:14] were dropped on the target. Inside that
[1:16] house, about an hour outside of Baghdad,
[1:18] the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu
[1:21] Musab al-Zarqawi, could not have known
[1:24] that he had just drawn his last breath.
[1:27] The first word to the White House
[1:28] yesterday afternoon was they thought
[1:30] they got him. Then it was confirmed.
[1:32] Today, the US allowed the Iraqi prime
[1:34] minister to break this news to the
[1:36] world. A giant framed picture of the
[1:39] dead terrorist was shown, and tonight a
[1:41] huge question remains. Does this amount
[1:44] to the death o