Nightline (ABC) - 2006-06-08 - al-Zarqawi death
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[0:05] Tonight on Nightline, manhunt, the
[0:08] inside story of how the US tracked down
[0:10] and killed Iraq's most wanted terrorist.
[0:13] What really happened as the net closed
[0:15] in during the final days of Zarqawi.
[0:18] Plus, Madam President, she's an
[0:21] agnostic, a divorced single mother, and
[0:23] a torture victim, now running a major
[0:26] Catholic country. If you're surprised
[0:28] she was elected, so was she. But she's
[0:31] convinced there is a woman's way to
[0:34] rule. And thumbs down, profits up. From
[0:37] Jennifer Aniston to Tom Hanks, why are
[0:40] so many stars getting bad reviews for
[0:42] new movies doing great business? Do the
[0:44] critics matter anymore? It's a sign of
[0:47] the times.
[0:48] >> From the global resources of ABC News,
[0:51] with Terry Moran and Cynthia McFadden in
[0:54] Washington, and Martin Bashir in Times
[0:56] Square, New York, this is Nightline.
[1:00] June 8, 2006.
[1:03] >> Good evening. I'm Cynthia McFadden.
[1:04] Early this morning news broke that the
[1:06] most wanted man in Iraq had been hunted
[1:08] down and killed by American forces.
[1:11] President Bush claimed the death of Abu
[1:13] Musab al-Zarqawi as a major symbolic and
[1:16] strategic victory, and there is no
[1:18] question that al-Zarqawi had been
[1:19] responsible for many of the terrorist
[1:21] attacks in Iraq over the past several
[1:23] years. ABC's Martha Raddatz broke the
[1:25] story very early this morning. Tonight,
[1:27] her full report inside the takedown of
[1:30] the $25 million man just north of
[1:34] Baghdad.
[1:36] >> An elite special operations team, Task
[1:39] Force 145, had been tracking Zarqawi for
[1:43] months, shadowing his lieutenants and
[1:45] bomb makers, getting ever closer to
[1:48] zeroing