[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11397]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    ZARQAWI AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM

  (Mr. KELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KELLER. Mr. Speaker, I have just returned from visiting our 
troops in Iraq. I have seen the damage Zarqawi inflicted. I visited the 
areas where Zarqawi lived and terrorized people. And I have met the 
brave soldiers who ultimately tracked him down and killed him.
  I visited Amman, Jordan, where Zarqawi killed 60 people by bombing 
three hotels. I toured the special operations command center in Iraq 
with General Stan McCrystal a three-star general in charge of tracking 
down Zarqawi. All over the walls of the command center were posters of 
Zarqawi.
  I flew in a Black Hawk helicopter around the area of Ba'Qubah where 
Zarqawi was ultimately located. I also toured Baghdad where Zarqawi 
intimidated the U.N. by bombing their headquarters and where al-Jazeera 
TV once broadcast a videotape showing Zarqawi personally beheading an 
American citizen.
  I was with President Bush at the White House on June 7 when he got 
the message that al Zarqawi had been killed. However one feels about 
the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 
percent. God knows they have earned it.

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