Al-Reuters immediately starts pushing the usual “it will only create more terrorists” canard: Zarqawi leaves gap but insurgency will outlive him.

BERLIN, June 8 (Reuters) - The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi removes the man who took Iraq’s insurgency to new heights of savagery but it also creates a martyr whose inspiration will mobilise new recruits.

Arab and Western security analysts were agreed on Thursday that Zarqawi’s death in a U.S. air raid would not end the insurgency, even if it represents a rare triumph in Iraq for the Bush administration.

“There will be people that will be mobilised to join the caravan of martyrs, to emulate his example and to honour him,” said Magnus Ranstorp, an al Qaeda expert at the Swedish National Defence College.