Insurgency's leader al-Zarqawi killed
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most recognizable face of Iraq's violent insurgency, died in a coalition airstrike near Baquba, jubilant U.S. and Iraqi authorities said today. U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad called al-Zarqawi "the godfather of sectarian killing and terror in Iraq" and said his death "marks a great success for Iraq and the global war on terror."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.al.zarqawi/index.html
Zarqawi killed in Iraq air raid
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi appeared in a video earlier this year
Militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has announced. "Today we have eliminated Zarqawi," Mr Maliki said, sparking sustained applause. The US said he was killed in an air raid near Baquba.
ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5058262.stm
- US $25m bounty on head
- Linked to Iraqi bombings, assassinations and beheadings
- Merged Iraqi insurgent group with Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in 2004
- Emerged in Iraq as Tawhid and Jihad group chief
- Linked to Casablanca and Istanbul blasts, in 2003
- Foreign fighter against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in 1980s
- Jordan petty criminal in youth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5058304.stm
One down, many more to go...
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