From the NY Times report of the discovery of al- Zarqawi's HQ in Fallujah:

U.S. troops sweeping through the city west of Baghdad found what appeared to be a key command center of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, along with a separate workshop where an SUV registered in Texas was being converted into a car bomb and a classroom containing flight plans and instructions on shooting down planes.

Maybe they didn't get the November surprise memo from Rove on time.