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Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda lieutenants. When our coalition ousted the Taliban, the Zarqawi network helped establish another poison and explosive training center camp.
- 1989–2006
Learn about the life, activities, and legacy of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS and al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the leader of other terrorist groups. Find out his date of birth, place of residence, arrest, designations, rhetorical style, and more.
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.
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Jordanian by birth, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi transformed himself into a nationless freelance terrorist. Tactically, geographically, and to some extent philosophically, he established a pattern of inconsistency. His flexibility made him all the more fearsome—and all the more difficult to pin down. Despite a bounty of $25 million on his head and vastly i...
On June 7, 2006, U.S. forces in Iraq launched an air strike on a safe house some fifty-five miles north of Baghdad, where Zarqawi was hiding. The attack was the product of a prolonged intelligence effort to track down the terrorist leader, and was reportedly helped along by a tip from Jordan’s intelligence service that Zarqawi planned to hold a mee...
In 2003, Colin Powell told the UN Security Council that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was, in his very person, the link between Iraq’s Baathist regime and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network. Zarqawi’s dealings, Powell said, proved that Iraq harbored a terrorist network, and mandated preemptive military action against the country. This assertion was later di...
m-The most famous attacks connected to Zarqawi are the Amman, Jordan suicide bombings of November 9, 2005, and the Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004. 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 widel...
Part of what makes Zarqawi’s influence so hard to classify is the broad uncertainty about which groups he helped build. He was often referred to as al-Qaeda’s lead operator in Iraq, though just how much contact he had with either Osama bin Laden or other al-Qaeda higher-ups is far from clear. Experts say Zarqawi and bin Laden most likely met in Kan...
A backgrounder on the terrorist leader who coordinated suicide bombings in Amman, Madrid, and Iraq, and beheaded an American contractor. Learn about his life, his affiliation with al-Qaeda, his myths and myth-busting, and his death in 2006.
- Lee Hudson Teslik
A former CIA analyst reveals how Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS, rose from a criminal and a thug to a religious leader and a terrorist. She explains how he was radicalized, trained, and arrested in Jordan, and how he became involved in the 9/11 plot and the war in Iraq. She also shares her views on why the U.S. should have acted earlier to stop him.
- Jason M. Breslow
A profile of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mastermind behind the sectarian warfare that tore Iraq apart after the U.S. invasion and the creation of ISIS. Learn about his rise, his role in the insurgency, his death, and his legacy.
Jun 8, 2006 · BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 8 — Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in an American airstrike on an isolated safe house north of Baghdad at 6:15 p.m. local time on Wednesday, top...
