Might the Sunni Arabs relent?

摘要

For a good week, a rumour has been buzzing around Baghdad that Abu Mu-sab al-Zarqawi, the most bloodthirsty of foreign jihadis organising suicide-bombers and beheadings, has been wounded or captured. It is hard to tell whether an announcement on a website apparently affiliated to his Iraqi branch of the al-Qaeda movement, calling on Muslims to pray for his recovery, is genuine, though American forces have certainly been particularly active in the Euphrates valley towns thought to be his main refuge. The Jordanian Mr Zarqawi (who many Iraqis say is a figment of American imagination) has been a coordinator for non-Iraqi money and volunteers coming into Iraq. But even if he were put out of action for good, the insurgency would certainly go on apace—as it has, with even greater venom, since Iraq's new government took office last month.