GROUNDHOG DAY

Iraq's foreign minister said Monday that terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi might have been killed in a gunfight with U.S. forces over the weekend, but U.S. military sources told NBC News that's probably not the case and that troops likely "just missed" capturing him....

--NBC News right now

U.S. forces in Iraq believe they just missed capturing most-wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a February raid that netted two of his associates, a senior U.S. military official said Tuesday.

--AP, April 26, 2005

U.S. war planes targeted the top terrorist in Iraq yesterday....

...A senior Pentagon official told CNN that the air strike just missed taking out al-Zarqawi...

--New York Daily News, June 26, 2004