The killer is finally dead.  Here is a huge difference between Christianity and Islam.  Upon hearing of their leader’s death, Al-Qaida in Iraq said the following:

“The death of our leaders is life for us.  It will only increase our persistence in continuing holy war so that the word of God will be supreme.”

There you have it.  Radical Islam in all its glory.  The spread of their “gospel” by killing others.  No salvation … no forgiveness … no compassion … no teaching … no work by the Holy Spirit (because they do not know Him).  Just war and killing and more killing.

Update: The pretty pictures they are showing over at the major news outlets does not show the true story.  He met a violent end.  This should be the way of all such killers and terrorists.

Update #2: Hat tip to Right Wing News for the prediction on the Strategy Page that he would meet his demise soon.  Yesterday they predicted that Zarqawi would go out in a blaze of glory, become another martyr, and be out of the way of the organization because he had become a hinderance.  Just one problem.  If he has been a hinderance, then he has been so all along.  The beheadings, the violence to fellow Muslims, the sectarian fighting, the allegations and accusations against other branches of Al-Qaida, leading to the rebukes by Usama … these have been there all along.  Why now?  If he is a hinderance, then he hasn’t just recently become so.  I just don’t buy it – not yet.  I think that this is a win for the U.S. and a loss for Al-Qaida.  The organization becomes weaker as a result of this.  Unless I see evidence that the “real” leadership planned such a move, I will continue to believe that he was the head of the organization.  Besides, I just don’t think that they are organized enough to pull something like this off.

Update #3: Juan Cole notes the following:

… groups in Fallujah have launched attacks on Zarqawi followers there after the latter attacked the al-Husain Mosque in the Askari quarter two days ago, destroying the tomb of the founder of the mosque within it. (Salafis influenced by Saudi Wahhabism despise attendance at saints tombs, insisting on a Protestant-like elimination of all intermediaries between human beings and God. Many Islamists in Fallujah are actually Sufis, who value saints in the way rural Catholics do.) An attempt by the radical Salafis to destroy the mosque (on the grounds that it had been tainted with polytheism) was stopped by the “1920 Revolution Brigades,” a local ex-Baathist group. There was a running gun battle between the two.

Zarqawi’s group had also tried two days ago to attack a Fallujah police station, but they were repulsed by local tribal youth. The battle left two cars burned and 4 dead from the tribe of Al-Bu `Isa.

This makes better sense to me than the notion that his own people took him out by giving Centcom intelligence.  Zarqawi was the head of Al-Qaida in Iraq.  He was not the head of what the U.S. troops there call the “moog.”  On the other hand, there is indication that the Jordanians were also involved in this.  It will piece together over time.

Update #4: The video of the bomb that killed the killer is here.