On al-Zarqawi's Laptop

It's come out that the "almost Got al-Zarqawi" operation was over two months ago, so one would hope that every last scrap of intel had been squeezed out of that laptop and already acted on before any of this went public.

Even so, I've now heard that we "almost got" him because of a UAV following his truck, and he escaped from it in an underpass. I've also heard that it was because of a SpecOps ambush. Either way, there's things about this story that reek just a tad.

In both cases, the story was about him escaping from the truck in an underpass. Now, if they were trying to evade either of these two scenarios, it could be assumed they were travelling at a pretty good clip. Therefore, they would have had to slow down before el-Cumquat jumped out. This should have been noticed (brake lights, anyone?) and the time in the underpass times rate of speed going in should have been seen.

Or am I just being a pedantic prick again?