The AP story is
here:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaida members died in a gunfight -- some by their own hand to avoid capture. A U.S. official said Sunday that efforts were under way to determine if terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among the dead.
... In Washington, a U.S. official said the identities of the terror suspects killed was unknown. Asked if they could include al-Zarqawi, the official replied: "There are efforts under way to determine if he was killed."
The rest of the story is a horrific wrap-up of the bombings and deaths across Iraq today. Killing Al-Zarqawi would be a fantastic step, but the unspoken message of the story is that it wouldn't change a whole heck of a lot, at least in the short term.