David Norris (Independent)

The news has been announced today of the death of al-Zarqawi in Iraq. Due to the fact that I criticise rendition flights, I am sometimes seen as being an enemy of the United States and of democracy but I do not gloat over the death of anyone. However, al-Zarqawi was a person who lived by the sword and now he has died by the sword. His intervention in Iraq was not welcomed by the Iraqi people and I cannot mourn for him but I do mourn for our values. I also mourn the fact that once again, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Dermot Ahern, has been totally and deliberately disingenuous.