[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10651]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             DESERT OUTLAW

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, this morning, freedom has found a victory. Like 
the days of the Old West, an outlaw has been eliminated and we can take 
down the wanted posters.
  We weren't looking for a bank robber, a railroad bandit or even a 
horse thief. We were tracking a terrorist, a war criminal. High-tech 
helped find his hideout.
  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, militant mastermind who planned and ordered 
hundreds of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings of Iraqis and 
Americans, is dead. The prince of the forces of evil, the most wanted 
man in the desert of destruction, died like the outlaw that he was. He 
wasn't hung at the courthouse square like the days of the Old West, but 
he was the recipient of a U.S. military air strike, a strike that all 
but wiped out his desert gang of bad men, cutthroats and outlaws.
  But like the days of the Old West, there are more outlaws in hideouts 
in the hot hills of Iraq, and they, too, will be brought to a fitting 
end. Their reign of terror will be brought to justice.
  Freedom must always fight to survive, but freedom will prevail when 
the desert dust settles.
  And that's just the way it is.

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