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Jul 1, 2006 · 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.
A onetime video-store clerk turned radical jihadist, Zarqawi was the mastermind behind the sectarian warfare that tore Iraq apart after the U.S. invasion, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths...
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...
Jun 8, 2006 · More now on our lead story, the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq. Zarqawi was 39 years old. American officials have said he was the biggest terrorist threat in...
Jun 8, 2006 · Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and the most wanted man in the country, died violently and fittingly in a coalition airstrike June 7. His death represents a case of justice delayed, but justice done, and constitutes an important victory for the coalition and the Iraqi government.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq, militant Sunni network, active in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, first led by Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi to oppose the U.S. occupation and the Shi’i-dominated Iraqi government. Later merging with smaller groups in Iraq and Syria, it was a key player in the rise of ISIL.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq first appeared in 2004, when Abū Muṣʿab al-Zarqāwī, a Jordanian-born militant already leading insurgent attacks in Iraq, formed an alliance with al-Qaeda, pledging his group’s allegiance to Osama bin Laden in return for bin Laden’s endorsement as the leader of al-Qaeda’s franchise in Iraq. Al-Zarqāwī, who quickly ...
