"The market is using the killing of al-Zarqawi as an excuse to sell out of the market. If this was a bullish market then that news wouldn't have had any impact on prices."
- A London-based broker said on Thursday as Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced that Iraq's al-Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed in an airstrike outside the Iraqi city of Baquba.

"On the nuclear question, we prefer cooperation to confrontation."
- The official IRNA news agency quoted Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying on Wednesday. Iran gave a cautious reception earlier Tuesday to the international proposal aimed at resolving the crisis over its disputed nuclear drive, saying the offer contains "positive steps" but also "ambiguities"

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