zarqawi began recruiting them. >> zarqawi was a major celebrity in 2004. he became, i mean, a rock star. >> some of the worst violence americans saw on their tv screens during the iraq war came courtesy of zarqawi. >> he was like a terrorist psychopath. >> sunni insurgents inspired by al qaeda's leader in iraq abu musab al zarqawi blew up a holy shia shrine. >> the murders of innocent civilians, indiscriminate bombings, even beheadings, the focus not just on foreigners but on shiites. other muslims, seen as heretics, tactics that today sound hauntingly familiar. >> with a $25 million price on his head, there is no one the u.s. wants to capture or kill more than zarqawi. >> the cia had been tracking his every move. in june of 2006 u.s. forces killed him with two 500-pound bombs. >> tonight the most wanted terrorist in iraq is killed in a massive united states air strike. >> zarqawi. >> zarqawi, he said, was eliminated. >> zarqawi's death is a severe blow to al qaeda. >> but as it turned out, the movement zarqawi began would survive that blow. when we come b

which has never had an escape pee and houses the underwear bomber shoe bomber and 9-11 co con spur core zarqawi. >> one of the things you do is hold the enemy combatants. if we do that where do we put them? >> the ongoing fight hasn't stopped them from slowly entering the prison. the president took office took fewer than 100 today. a number the white house said could fall to a few dozen by year's end. >> the gitmo story was a popular one on the presidential campaign trail today with marco rubio ted cruz and donald trump weighing in on the topic. he would keep open the facility. donald trump adding we would like to load it up with more bad news. at the white house kevin cork, fox news. >> what you always want. thank you kevin. always nice to have him join us. 11 minutes after the top of the hour. death and destruction down south. tornadoes trampled several states actually. the effort to pick up the pieces and the areas hardest hit. >> the question is are we ready to narrow the gop? the political panel weighs in next. ♪ are you ready? are you ready? i mean, really ready? are you ready to open?

this is "fareed zakaria gps," welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world, i'm al zarqawi. -- i'm fareed zakaria. we'll start with the great political circus. iowa's over, new hampshire's up next. what has the early vote told us? is trump beat? is rubio the establishment's last hope? is clinton now inevitable? arianna huffington, david fromme, and others weigh in. also -- >> we can't be by stand force bigotry. >> the president was at a mosque this week to talk about islam and america. all continue that conversation with one of america's most prominent muslims, basketball great, kabir abdul-jabbar. >>> and what can texas learn from alberta, canada? what can we all learn from california? an idea whose time has come. i'll explain. >>> then, doctors and big data. the brave new world of medicine and how it will help you live to 100. dr. david agis joins me. >>> finally, how would you like to go from l.a. to san francisco in about 30 minutes without ever taking off? that dream was brought one step closer to reality this week. i will tell you about it. >>> first, here's my take -

this is "fareed zakaria gps," welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world, i'm al zarqawi. -- i'm fareed zakaria. we'll start with the great political circus. iowa's over, new hampshire's up next. what has the early vote told us? is trump beat? is rubio the establishment's last hope? is clinton now

zarqawi who left just after dawn through the parole board and is now starting is a life in bosnia was on that list to be prosecuted. it became clear as they work their way from the task force in jail his parole board hearing a little, around a year ago, that there was nothing that they could sustain to prosecute him for. we could have an entire panel on war crimes that are not war crimes, or war crimes that were once thought to be war crimes and are no longer acceptable war crimes. to which i wanted to just say today and. i've been hearing since the very first commission of the defense attorneys are the reason why people come reason why there is delay and that defense attorneys filed motions that seem to do, derail the process. what i know is that the defense attorneys motions that seem to derail the process went to the supreme court and concluded that the process at that moment, the beginning, was illegitimate. that defense attorneys who have filed motions to challenge the integrity of military commissions have been reshaping military commissions throughout this. crimes that were onc

>> this was an individual who is a legacy al-qaeda and iraq, zarqawi acolyte, very much from the iraq-syria theater cookie was the head financier. >> is not the same guy who was the financier back in -- >> not that i'm aware of. >> how many fighters do we have come how many people are fighting assad, the number of fighters that are there and i guess aleppo in that region? >> i can't put a number on aleppo. the uppermost estimate of our moderate opposition fighter, the uppermost estimate i've heard is about 70,000 fighters. all the way from the south to the north. those are split into hundreds of different groups. so to bring coherence to that is very difficult. >> are there any of those anti-assad fighters were fighting isil at this point? >> well, yes. before the russian airstrike campaign we felt pretty good about the word i guess it's coherence and tenacity we were getting along that moral line which on the -- which is on the i rejected. since then a lot of those guys have healed off to fight the regime which has not been helpful to the isil campaign. >> let us just note that this admini