(Sunday Times-UK) Hala Jaber and Tony Allen-Mills - An American warplane opened fire on a speeding car in the Jazira desert northwest of Baghdad earlier this month carrying Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. A piece of shrapnel from an air-to-ground missile lodged in his chest. Zarqawi, who has a $25m bounty on his head, has fled the country for emergency surgery, according to a senior insurgent commander, and is now believed to be in Iran.
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