FOXNews.com - Zarqawi Found Alive After Bombing - Iraq

FOXNews.com - Zarqawi Found Alive After Bombing - Iraq: "Friday, June 09, 2006


Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was found alive by Iraqi police and U.S. forces who arrived at the scene of the bombing raid near Baqouba, a U.S. official told FOX News on Friday.

'Zarqawi was alive when U.S. forces arrived on the site,' Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said in a satellite interview from Iraq. 'The Iraqi police arrived first, they found him in the rubble, put him on a gurney of some type.'

Caldwell, the chief U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, said Zarqawi tried to roll off the gurney to escape once he became aware of the fact that he was being taken into custody by coalition troops Wednesday night after two 500-pound precision guided bombs blew up his safehouse near Baqouba."