[Al Zarqawi] was killed this week. John Robb gives an overview. Zarqawi is best categorized as violence capitalist, very similar to Osama Bin Laden, that supported and incubated guerrilla entrepreneurs of the new [Open Source Warfare] model. In this role he was instigator of violence and not the leader of a vast hierarchical insurgency. (Bazaar Of Violence)... By early 2006, Zarqawi's operational activities were all but over. He had succeeded in seeding the original insurgency and shifting the plausible promise to include sectarian warfare. During this final phase, Zarqawi moved into a role of strategic communicator, much like bin Laden's role today... His main failure was that he didn't fully appreciate the value of systems disruption. His only attack on a systems target (the Basra terminal) was a failure. He also proved unable to give up operational roles in favor of becoming a strategic communicator (which ultimately led to his death).

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