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Some analysts say al-Zarqawi's power to simply terrorize is now his most effective weapon.
"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was probably far more important to the insurgency early on after the fall of Baghdad. At that point in time the insurgents were disorganized," says Kenneth Pollack, director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
The United States believes al-Zarqawi appealed to al Qaeda to help start a civil war in Iraq. But now al-Zarqwai and bin Laden are perhaps more in competition than cooperation.