Al-Zarqawi Killed: ABC’s Raddatz Had Just Closed Her Eyes When A Source Called…

The ABC News scoop about Al-Zarqawi’s death “was based on a tip phoned from a source to Martha Raddatz, who was named ABC’s chief White House correspondent last November after a dozen years covering the Pentagon for ABC News and National Public Radio,” the AP reports.

She “has been on vacation for the past two weeks writing a book about a battle in the Iraq war, and said she had left ABC’s news bureau in Washington at 2 a.m. Fifteen minutes later, she had just closed her eyes when the phone rang with the tip. She immediately put the word out on a special internal phone line that alerts ABC News offices to breaking news…”