Zarqawi died in a strike against an "isolated safe house" about 8km (five miles) north of Baquba at 1815 (1415 GMT) on Wednesday, officials said.
"We have eliminated Zarqawi," Prime Minister Nouri Maliki told a news conference in Baghdad, sparking sustained applause.
The strike was the "painstaking, deliberate result" of intelligence over "many weeks", US military spokesman Major General William Caldwell said.
He showed a picture of the militant leader's body and a videotape of the attack, in which he said American F-16 fighter jets dropped two 500lb bombs on the site.
Now, I'm not that interested in conspiracy theories, but given that a hail of bullets and RPGs practically blew Saddam Hussein's sons beyond recognition, you can't seriously be telling me that you dropped two 500lb bombs on one house and recovered Zarqawi's body intact and fit for display to the media?
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