The White House reiterated yesterday that no timetable had been fixed

A "victory", a "hard" blow to Al-Qaeda in Iraq and in the world, according to President George w. Bush and the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a "great defeat" for the terrorist Nebula from the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso: the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which was imposed as a leaders of the Sunni fundamentalist in Iraq guerrillaswas hailed as an extremely important event in the world. Even if most of the leaders and experts remained cautious on the consequences of this death. "Zarqawi has been eliminated" Wednesday in a combined air operation Iraqi American, announced yesterday in Baghdad Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the applause of the journalists. American officials said could locate Zarqawi with a member of its network. Seven people including two women and one of his "lieutenants" were killed in his company in the aerial bombing against an isolated hideout near Baaquouba, some 60 kilometres north of Baghdad. The Jordanian intelligence services also participated in this operation.

The Elimination of those who had become the symbol of extreme violence with its filmed beheadings of hostages occurred at the same time where the Iraqi Government gave the final key to his training. Almost six months after the parliamentary elections, the Parliament has invested yesterday the last three Ministers in charge of security: defence, Abdel Kader Mohammed Jassem Oubeidi, a former General imprisoned by Saddam Hussein. inside, the Shia Jawad Polani, a former officer of the air force, and finally as Secretary of State for national security, the Shiite al-Waili, a former General Shirawan he also imprisoned.

Yet many insurgents

But the death of Zarqawi, who had committed numerous attacks like the one in August 2003 against the United Nations, is, as stated by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, a "significant victory" American but announced "not the end of the violence in Iraq". While welcoming the new, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan recalled that a large number of armed groups fought. For some observers, Zarqawi, born in October 1966 in Jordan and that was seasoned in the "Jihad" against the USSR in Afghanistan, was only a fraction of the insurgents, particularly of foreigners, in Iraq, perhaps a thousand on the 20,000 fighters participating in the insurgency.

The disappearance of this head of war does not open the door to a withdrawal of US troops to Iraq. The White House reiterated yesterday that no timetable had been fixed. On the other hand, has said in an interview François Heisbourg, of the Foundation for strategic research (FRS), "it solves by eliminating problems of leadership within the Al-Qaeda". The end of "the war of succession" with the Saudi Osama bin Laden for the control of the international terrorist Nebula reduce the number of attacks in the world Wonder, says the expert. On the domestic scene, paradoxically, the Iraqis lose as one of the rare total agreement: the need to eliminate Zarqawi. In any case, yesterday, the Iraqi violence in which 16,000 to 25,000 civilian and some military 2,500 Americans have lost their lives since the March 2003 invasion have continued with a series of attacks in Baghdad that have been 20 dead.