The next bad guy

Just to show that the posts I linked to a couple days back weren't so far off:

U.S. Identifies al-Zarqawi's Successor (AP, in Washington Post); U.S. reveals face of alleged new terror chief (CNN).

More on Zarqawi:

Huffington Post's Michael Shaw on his elevation to mastermind status. (Note, here, also, a link to Bag News Notes, a site that analyzes the effect of news images on the public consciousness. There's a fascinating comment discussion on Ann Coulter here, too.)

Thomas Joscelyn in The Weekly Standard on the connection between al-Zarqawi and Saddam Hussein.