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Did We Farq Up Attacking Zarqawi?

Matt Welch | 10.25.2004 4:35 PM

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According to a subscription-only Wall Street Journal article excerpted by Laura Rozen and Stuart Benjamin over at the Volokh Conspiracy, the U.S. had a pretty clear shot at the terrorist monster from June 2002 on, but didn't make a move on him until March 2003, when it was too late.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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