Salaam to Zarqawi

Salaam is good-bye in arabic.

But one thing I just can't understand: Yahoo's headline: Al Qaeda's Zarqawi Killed in Iraq. I think I need to be walked through this. Zarqawi is Al Qaeda's leader. He was in Iraq, and killed there. Also, according to Yahoo: he is

blamed for the beheading of foreign captives and the death of hundreds in suicide bombings

Zarqawi, believed to be in his late 30s, has inspired an apparently endless supply of militants from across the Arab world to blow themselves up in suicide missions in Iraq.

Here's what I can't understand: these same media organizations talking about Al Qaeda killings in Iraq: how is this possible, especially since there has never been, nor will there ever be any connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq.

Can someone please tell me what I'm missing? MSM needs to set the record straight. Is there still no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda?

*Update*
As you read the AP stories, notice how the reporters are trying to make this news less positive:

But any hopes the Jordanian-born terror leader's death would help stem the violence in Iraq were dimmed hours later when a car bomb exploded in a Baghdad market, killing 12 and wounding 65.

So there's no hope even with his death because of a single suicide bomb that went off? Granted, Iraq doesn't turn to Utopia because of this, but please...

*Update 2*
Surely enough, CNBC's guest Mort Zuckerman and another guest on CNN both said that this news is irrelevant because Bush already blew it. We should give up now because we already lost.