Attempt made to kill Al-Zarqawi in past 10 days

There was a failed attempt to kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the past 10 days before a successful airstrike, Iraq’s prime minister said today.

“Since a week or 10 days ago, there was intelligence information about the presence and movements of this big criminal. There was a previous attempt to kill him but it didn’t succeed. Then we succeeded, thanks to God,” Nouri Maliki told Al-Arabiya television.