Tracking al-Zarqawi

Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has eluded capture for a long while, perhaps the noose is tightening though:

Iraq's most wanted terrorist, the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is hiding out in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after fleeing from Mosul, according to police sources.
The claim comes barely days after the Iraq's interim government said that it was close to catching the jihadist, whose group has been behind the beheadings of foreign hostages, including Briton Kenneth Bigley, and suicide bombings.
'He came to Kirkuk from Mosul,' a source in the Kirkuk police department told Reuters yesterday, speaking anonymously. 'There's a possibility that he might be captured at any moment.'
The claim follows the disclosure by Iraq's interior minister this month that Iraqi security forces were tracking Zarqawi and had recently come close to capturing him. 'We are following him,' said Falah al-Naqib. 'I think we missed him two or three times, but hopefully next time we will be able to capture him.'

Capturing the man who is responsible for beheading numerous people and inciting uncountable acts of terror that have killed women and children would be a good thing, right? Not according to Talk Left:

What then? What difference will his capture make? Apparently not much, in terms of the war.

I'll answer that TL. Al-Zarqawi is the leader of a shrinking group of insurgent terrorists that have as their sole goal the undermining of a blossoming democracy in an Arab country. This is of course unprecedented and would not bode well for the dictatorial regimes in the rest of the Arab world.

On a more basic point, do you not think that a man who has beheaded non-combatants and murdered innocents should not be caught? Should an evil man who stands against everything you do not be brought to justice.

The more salient question would be this: Do you hate G. W. Bush so much that you would rather see al-Zarqawi remain free to attack and kill without remorse than give Bush a victory in the Iraq war? At least one of your commenters is sane enough to see that.