[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 72 (Thursday, June 8, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H3500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         U.S. AIRSTRIKE KILLS LEADING ENEMY OF FREEDOM IN IRAQ

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, I rejoice in the death of no man, but today I 
will make an exception. As America and the world just learned, the al 
Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead. The President of 
the United States said it was an opportunity to turn the tide and that 
the ideology of terror had lost one of its most visible and aggressive 
leaders, and it has.
  But this was not simply a tactically significant strike by U.S. and 
Iraqi forces. Somebody dropped a dime. It is also evidence, as U.S. 
General George Casey in Iraq said earlier today, of increased 
cooperation.
  I commend U.S. and Iraqi forces for this extraordinary 
accomplishment. The leading enemy of freedom in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab 
al-Zarqawi is gone. Let freedom reign in Iraq.

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