Billmon: Form Over Substance

Bernhard at Moon Over Alabama notes a certain repetitiveness in the news dispatches about the hunt for evil terrorist mastermind Emmanual Goldstein . . . I mean, Abu Musab Zarqawi:

June 16, 2005: U.S. Says It Has Captured Al Qaeda Leader for Mosul Area

June 5, 2005: Militant linked to Zarqawi arrested

May 25, 2005: Top aide to al-Zarqawi arrested north of Baghdad

May 25, 2005: US: al-Zarqawi aides arrested

May 9, 2005: Gains seen after new arrest of al-Zarqawi aide

April 19, 2005: Iraqi Security Forces Capture Two Zarqawi Associates

March 9, 2005: A Zarqawi cell "prince", six others captured in Baquba

And so on -- and on and on and on and on.