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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
Jun 9, 2006 · Thu 8 Jun 2006 20.30 EDT. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader whose three-year reign of terror cost hundreds of lives and wreaked havoc upon attempts to bring stability to Iraq,...
May 1, 2007 · For years, their primary target had been Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of the grandly named Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the gloating, murderous author of assassinations,...
Jun 9, 2006 · Listen. Pentagon officials say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death followed months of methodical intelligence work. The elusive Zarqawi had escaped U.S. forces on a number of occasions. So when...
- John Hendren
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.
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View Archive. 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.“Foreign Terrorist Organization: Designation of Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad and Aliases,” U.S.
Nov 18, 2005 · November 18, 2005 10:46 PM Age: 19 years. 49% of Zarqawi’s targets are military, 36.2% political, 14.1% economic, and 0.6% ethno-religious. This article is the first in a two-part series on Zarqawi’s rising influence in the jihadist movement. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is attaining legendary status.
