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- He was a ruthless self-promoter who, U.S. officials claim, killed or wounded thousands of people in the past three years—in suicide bombings, mass executions, and beheadings that have been videotaped.
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Zarqawi was killed in a targeted killing by a joint U.S. force on June 7, 2006, while attending a meeting in an isolated safehouse in Hibhib, a small village approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) west-northwest of Baqubah. One United States Air Force F-16C jet dropped two 500-pound (230 kg) guided bombs on the safehouse.
Once one of the most wanted men in the world, for whose arrest the United States offered a $25 million reward, al-Zarqawi was a notoriously enigmatic figure—a man who was everywhere yet nowhere.
Her task: Find out whether the man who’d go on to become the founder of ISIS, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was part of Al Qaeda. As the U.S. inched closer to invasion, Zarqawi made his way from...
- Jason M. Breslow
Overview. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, born Ahmad Fadil Nazal al-Khalayleh, was the founder of ISIS ’s predecessor, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and the former leader of two other terrorist organizations: al-Tawhid wal-Jihad and Jund al-Sham. * Notorious for his videotaped beheadings, Zarqawi was implicated in numerous terrorist attacks and became the ...
Jul 13, 2004 · Article profiles Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian who has emerged as insurgent leader and biggest terrorist threat in Iraq, accused of orchestrating guerilla attacks, suicide bombings,...
Jun 8, 2006 · He has also claimed credit for the April 24, 2004, suicide attack on the Iraqi port city of Basra, multiple attacks on Shiite worshippers and Shiite mosques in Iraq, and the videotaped and widely...
May 1, 2007 · The Ploy. The inside story of how the interrogators of Task Force 145 cracked Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s inner circle—without resorting to torture—and hunted down al-Qaeda’s man in Iraq. By...
