Well, extreme left rag Mother Jones has a tale by Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist who went on the hunt for Zarqawi because he harbored his own doubts. Although Jamail is extremely anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war, he found out: he's real, all right. Of course, he tries to have his cake and eat it, too, by still hanging on to the Zarqawi as propaganda tool meme:
...The only thing I feel I can say for sure is that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is a real person. Whether or not he is alive and fighting in Iraq or not, or what acts he is actually responsible for there, is open to debate.Well, that's true enough; it is, indeed, open to debate; but stipulating that he at least exists is a good place to start from...
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