Bloomberg.com: Al-Zarqawi May Have Been Beaten

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"June 11 (Bloomberg) --...

The London-based Sunday Times today quoted an eyewitness as saying he saw American soldiers take Zarqawi from an ambulance, tear his robe to check for explosives, then kick him repeatedly in the chest while demanding his name.

The soldiers were ``shouting and screaming and in a very tense and agitated mood,'' Ali Abbas, a 25-year-old laborer who was one of the first at the scene and had helped pull Zarqawi from the rubble of the house, told the Sunday Times.

``They kept kicking him with their boots, shouting `what's your name?', but the man only moaned and said nothing,'' Abbas told the newspaper. He estimated it took a quarter of an hour for Zarqawi to die from when he was removed from the ambulance.

Abbas recognized the injured man as Zarqawi when he saw pictures of the dead man on television, the Sunday Times said."