I actually meant who will be the new bogey-man in Iraq.

The reason for this (real or apparent) killing seems to me to be quite obvious - who cares if US occupiers are slaughtering civilians in Haditha, Ishaqi or anywhere else anymore - WE GOT THE EVIL DOER! The strategy is working dammit! The back of the insurgency has been broken (for the fifty millionth time).

Of course, the resistance will carry on regardless. And the US will need a new evil mastermind for people to boo and hiss at when his face is shown on the news.

I just wonder who it will be. Especially as the US have (ahem) killed about 25 of Zarqawi's right-hand men. Maybe it'll be one of his left-hand men!