IRAQ WAR

IRAQ WAR
Latest developments
The $25 million bounty the U.S. put on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's head will be honored, Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki told al-Arabiya television. "We will meet our promise," he said.
Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, issued his statement about the killing of al-Zarqawi at 6:20 a.m. Thursday, a full hour and 11 minutes before President Bush made his own statement in the Rose Garden. "Al-Zarqawi has made his last video," Cornyn announced, through an e-mail sent by his early-rising spokesman, Don Stewart.
At least five bombs, most them packed in vehicles, detonated in and around Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 40 people and injuring dozens, authorities said.
Also, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that four people were killed, including an Australian security guard, in a roadside bombing in northern Iraq Thursday about 180 miles north of Baghdad.
Combined dispatches