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Zarqawi Reportedly Shot; 9 U.S. Troops Die in Attacks

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Saad Sarhan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 25, 2005; A01

BAGHDAD, May 24 -- Insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi, the most-wanted man in Iraq, was shot and wounded in a weekend ambush by U.S. and Iraqi forces, according to one of his lieutenants and a statement attributed to his organization, al Qaeda in Iraq.

Several previous reports have had Zarqawi wounded or ill, noted Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, a military spokesman in Baghdad. "We don't know whether it's fact or fiction," Boylan said of Tuesday night's claim. "He continues to be our No. 1 target."

Asked about the reports, State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher said in Washington, "I don't know."

So that looks pretty conclusive evidence so we'll run astory saying he's wounded.

(Pssst.... there is a $25MN price on his head...Zarqawi's NOT Boucher's )