Beheaded

U.S. and Iraqi leaders are cautious but optimistic after coalition forces cut off al-Qaeda in Iraq leadership, killing Zarqawi and others, in air strike | Mindy Belz

It is a great day," former U.S. ambassador to Jordan Edward W. Gnehm Jr. told WORLD hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the insurgency in Iraq, had been killed in a June 7 airstrike.

The 39-year-old Jordanian-born terrorist, according to Mr. Gnehm, was "a threat on an almost daily basis" during his 2001-2004 stint as the leading U.S. official in Amman. Mr. Gnehm, a career diplomat who arrived in Amman on Sept. 10, 2001, and was also the U.S. ambassador in Kuwait when Saddam Hussein invaded there in 1990, retired from his post in 2004, and now teaches at George Washington University.

The optimism which followed Zarqawi's death, he said, "is not just an American feeling. The Jordanians were roused by what he did too. This is a great success."

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