June 8, 2006 (Thursday)
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- According to an aide to Iraq's prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and one of the world's most wanted men, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed by a U.S. air raid. Al-Zarqawi's body was retrieved and visually identified by known scars, tattoos and fingerprints. (CNN)(BBC)
- First Lieutenant Ehren Watada, 28, publicly refuses to go to Iraq, saying it would make him party to war crimes. (Reuters) (Aljazeera) (ABC) (FOX)
- The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejects the concept of Net neutrality (ZDNet)
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