Zarqawi's death has no major impact on Iraq resistance: Palestinian FM

The visiting Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar said Thursday he did not see any major impact of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death on the ongoing resistance movement in Iraq.

"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death is only a minor loss to the anti- U.S. resistance movement in Iraq," Zahar told reporters in Islamabad on the second day of his two-day visit.

The Palestinian foreign minister met with Pakistani Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Syed Mushahid Hussain and attended a meeting, arranged by Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed, with members of Parliament and political leaders.

"The Palestinians are blessing every effort to eliminate the existence of occupation," Zahar said when he was asked about his reaction to the death of Zarqawi in a U.S.-led air strike in Northern Iraq last night.

"We are dead sure that assassination of any of the people like al-Zarqawi who are resisting will not ...end the resistance," he said.

"We have to wait and see to what degree this will impact the process of resistance," Zahar said when asked whether or not the death of Zarqawi's would have any negative impact on anti-U.S. resistance in Iraq.

He said the resistance in Iraq was so strong that it did not have any major impact.

Source: Xinhua