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I read in the Tribune that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s deputy and spiritual adviser, Abdul Rahman, was killed in the U.S. air strike that killed al-Zarqawi. The title, spiritual adviser to a mass murderer, appears to be an oxymoron.

If Rahman had been doing his job, he would have told al-Zarqawi to stop beheading and bombing innocent people, and if al-Zarqawi didn’t, Rahman should have resigned.

Yet it’s probably difficult to quit a terrorist organization with all your limbs and digits properly attached.

A more accurate description of Abdul Rahman: He was al-Zarqawi’s deputy and incompetent spiritual adviser.