BRUSSELS, June 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld hailed on Thursday the death of al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a U.S. air raid in Iraq as a "significant victory" in the battle against terrorism.
Rumsfeld told a news briefing after a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels Zarqawi's death in a U.S. air strike near Baghdad on Wednesday had hurt his network and would slow down its operations.
He called Zarqawi "an integral part of the global war on terror".
"Let there be no doubt the fact that he is dead is a significant victory in the battle against terrorism in that country and I would say worldwide, because he had interests well outside Iraq," he said.
"No single person on this planet has had the blood of more innocent men, women and children on his hands than has Zarqawi."
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