http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/08/news/assess.php
Dexter Filkins
"By finally putting an end to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the American military and its Iraqi allies have killed the one man who put a face on the Iraqi insurgency. The question looming over his death is how large a blow his elimination deals to the guerrilla movement he helped drive to such bloody limits. The likely answer, according to American and Iraqi officials and experts who have been following Zarqawi for months: His death could significantly degrade the ability of his group, Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, to launch suicide and car bomb attacks - and possibly set off a bloody struggle to succeed him. But the insurgency and sectarian war he helped ignite will carry on."
