Zarqawi's Wife: 16 Years Old

Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 6:22:51 pm PDT

TIME Magazine tosses it off as if it were insignificant, in the midst of a lengthy article about the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but one of the people killed when the US Air Force made a special delivery to a house in Baqubah, Iraq (hat tip: distwalker), was Zarqawi’s wife.

His sixteen-year old wife: How They Killed Him. (Hat tip: RationalLady.)

For nearly a month, the commandos had monitored every move of Abdul-Rahman, the spiritual adviser, whose locations had been revealed by an al-Qaeda operative captured in May near the Iraq-Jordan border. When Abdul-Rahman surfaced near Baqubah last week—apparently in the same location as the Jordanians’ Mr. X—the commandos moved in for the kill. “We had absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Zarqawi was in the house,” Army Major General William Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad the day after the strike. The Jordanian security official told TIME that the bombing killed Abdul-Rahman and Mr. X, in addition to al-Zarqawi’s 16-year-old wife.

UPDATE at 6/11/06 7:39:27 pm:

Al Jazeera reported yesterday that Zarqawi’s 18-month old son was also killed.

Family sources told the AFP news agency that al-Zarqawi’s 18-month-old son was also killed in the US air strike on the home.

Zarqawi’s son was 18 months old, and his wife was 16 years old... you do the math. But who are we to judge? We never even read him his Miranda rights.