GrimReaper back from Vacation: UPDATE

While I was gone, Kerberos took care of the dead terrorist, but did not notice the dead keyboardist...

Billy Preston, Grammy-winning musician, and super-famous keyboard player, is dead at 59. This gives the Dirty, Rotten, Filthy, Stinking Chowd 41 points, and moves him into second behind Roger Mortis.

More updates as I catch up on the news...

GR

You can run but you can't hide

A painstaking, weeks-long intelligence operation, acting on tips from Iraqis and his own network, led to the U.S. airstrike that killed "al Qaeda in Iraq" leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the military said Thursday.

The U.S.-led coalition's most wanted man in Iraq was killed Wednesday evening in a U.S. airstrike on a safe house near Baquba, according to U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell.

Roger Mortis saw it coming and his incredible foresight has earned him 61 points, catapulting him into the lead. (see scoring page for updates)