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'A blow to al-Qaeda everywhere'
08/06/2006 12:15 - (SA)
London - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday the death of al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a blow to the terror network.
"Today's announcement was very good news because a blow against al-Qaeda in Iraq was a blow against al-Qaeda everywhere," Blair told cabinet members.
The prime minister also praised US and coalition troops for their work in Iraq and its new democratically elected government.
Paul Bigley - the brother of Kenneth Bigley, who was kidnapped September 16, 2004, and beheaded - said he believed al-Zarqawi was behind his brother's death.
World rid of a 'very evil person'
"I think the world has rid themselves of a very evil person. I think all of his assistants and gofers and people who support him, I hope they meet the same fate," he told BBC News.
Bigley also complained that his family had not yet received his brother's remains.
"We haven't got Ken's remains back yet ... I would like to take this opportunity to ask Mr. Blair to finally pick up the phone and have one of his people or several of his people in Scotland Yard or wherever these people hang out, to go over there and return Ken's remains."
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