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Baghdad: An inspection of the house where Abu Musab Al Zarqawi was killed has revealed that he was accompanied by women who wore revealing night clothes and read magazines. Journalists accompanying the US military to the site in the village of Hibhib, near the town of Baquba, on Saturday reported seeing a woman's leopard skin nightgown and other skimpy women's clothes around the bombed house. The US military had said the air strike killed a total of six people, three males and three females. An Iraqi army officer confirmed that there were two women and an eight-year-old girl living in the safe house along with Al Zarqawi and his companions.
There were six people in house at the time of the attack, three women and three men, Major General William Caldwell, the spokesman for the US military in Baghdad Caldwell said at a Pentagon briefing later on Friday. There were no survivors, he said. Al Zarqawi gave up no information before he died, but the attack has yielded unprecedented intelligence about his network, Caldwell said. He said there were 17 raids in Iraq shortly after the attack, some made possible by intelligence gained in it. The intelligence also helped support some of an additional 39 raids Thursday night. In the second night of raids, Caldwell said 39 raids were carried out and that "clearly we picked up things like memory sticks, some hard drives" that would allow American forces to begin dismantling Al Zarqawi's Al Qaida in Iraq.
He said it was also helping them understand where the group's weapons and financing were coming from.from searches following the death of Al Zarqawi.
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