The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation hailed on Thursday the announcement that Al-Qaeda chief in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed in a US airstrike.
"He will not be missed," said NATO spokesman James Appathurai on the sidelines of a meeting of alliance defence ministers including US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Brussels.
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The spokesman added that the ministers had discussed Zarqawi's killing during their first working session on Thursday morning, but gave no further details.
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