"He has fulfilled the Dawa and obtained martyrdom," said Marwan Shahadeh, a researcher at the Vision Institute. "Since Zarqawi was hurt in 2005, he was trying to institutionalise his group so that if he gets killed the group will not be affected and so he has succeeded in doing so."
What is the Vision Institute? Sounds to me like this Marwan character is either just spouting off or is an insider in Zarqawi's network.
Zarqawi IS a Palestinian. However if he were billed that way, instead of as the 'PC to hate' Al Qaeda, the world might have to face the fact that Palestinian jihad is global jihad and part and parcel of the Islamic movement which must be wiped out not funded.
"Zarqawi was born Ahmed al-Khalayleh to a Palestinian-Jordanian family in 1966"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/18/opinion/main618114.shtml