Shifting Zarqawi?

Does the report that Zarqawi was found alive after the bombing and then died make him a more sympathetic character, more human somehow, by creating an image of a man as his life ebbs?

How about "A Dying Al-Zarqawi Tried to Get Away," that "Al-Zarqawi attempted to, sort of, turn away off the stretcher," and then "everybody re-secured him back onto the stretcher, but he died almost immediately thereafter," does that influence the image?

I don't know. I'm just curious.

(By the way, the Zarqawi alive story was the top story on CNN's web page this morning, big splash, big photo, now six hours later, it's not even on the front page.)