Bombing suspect Al-Zarqawi 'is dead'

A Jordanian extremist suspected of bloody suicide attacks in Iraq was killed some time ago in US bombing and a letter outlining plans for fomenting sectarian war is a forgery, a statement allegedly from an insurgent group west of Baghdad said.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq “during the American bombing there,” according to a statement circulated in Fallujah this week and signed by the “Leadership of the Allahu Akbar Mujahedeen”.