Analysts Also Say that when He Saw the 500-lbs Bombs Falling Toward Him, He Mumbled "Rut Row" to No One in Particular

Earlier Friday, a senior U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said many items had been found in raids over the past two days based on intelligence gathered from Zarqawi's safehouse, which was flattened by two U.S. bombs on Wednesday.

Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon by video-teleconference from his office in Baghdad, said that after 17 raids in the immediate aftermath of the airstrike, more were launched on Thursday. . . .

The spokesman also disclosed that Zarqawi was still alive when U.S. troops arrived on the scene after Wednesday's airstrike by an F-16 fighter. The terrorist 'mumbled a little something' and made an apparent effort to get away after being placed on a stretcher by Iraqi police, Caldwell said.

Intelligence analysts have since determined within a +/- 3% certainty that Zarqawi's mumbling translates into "And I would have got away with it, too, if it hadn't been for those meddling Americans and their ridiculous dog."