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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, born Ahmad Fadeel Nazal al-Khalayleh, was a Jordanian jihadist militant who ran a training camp in Afghanistan. He became known after going to Iraq and masterminding a series of bombings, beheadings, and other attacks during the Iraq War, reportedly turning an insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq into a Shia–Sunni civil war. He was sometimes known by his supporters as the "…
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politics · Jordanian jihadist (1966–2006) · mujahid · politician · also Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh, al-Zarqawi
Born 30 October 1966 · Died 7 June 2006 · Q181049
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2015· 1 entry
An anonymous author in the New York Review of Books describes al-Zarqawi as having been responsible for "turning an insurgency against U
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2013· 1 entry
While fighting for the Al-Nusra Front in Syria
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2009· 1 entry
It survived and metastasized into ISIS according to author David Ignatius
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2006· 13 entries
Abu Ali al-Anbari, head of the MSC, released an audiotape statement in which he described the death of al-Zarqawi as a "great loss"
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NBC news and the Pentagon reported that the U
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The Respect Party MP George Galloway referred to al-Zarqawi as a "Boogeyman", built up by the Americans to try and perpetrate the lie that the resistance in Iraq are by foreigners, and that the mass of the Iraqis are wit
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While attending a meeting in an isolated safe house approximately 8 km (5
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Died 2006-06-07.
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A video appearing to show al-Zarqawi surfaced
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The FBI also added al-Zarqawi to the "Seeking Information – War on Terrorism" list, the first time that he had ever been added to any of the FBI's three major "wanted" lists
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Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr made similar charges:
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Jordan's High Court of Security sentenced nine men, including al-Zarqawi, to death for their involvement in the plot
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That clearly showed him with both legs intact
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“We herald the martyrdom of our mujahed [al-Zarqawi] in Iraq ... and we stress that this is an honor to our nation.”
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“We have declared a bitter war against democracy and all those who seek to enact it... Democracy is also based on the right to choose your religion [and that is] against the rule of Allah.”
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While attending a meeting in an isolated safehouse in Hibhib, Iraq
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2005· 4 entries
Some news sources reported that al-Zarqawi may have been killed in a coalition assault on a house in Mosul; five of those in the house were killed in the assault while the other three died through using 'suicide belts' o
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It was reported on an Islamic website that a deputy would take command of al-Qaeda while al-Zarqawi recovered from injuries sustained in an attack
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According to the Senate report, the CIA amended its 2004 report to conclude, "the regime did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward al-Zarqawi and his associates
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Declared war on Shias in Iraq, after the Iraqi government offensive on insurgents in the Sunni town of Tal Afar
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2004· 7 entries
Al Jazeera broadcast an audiotape of bin Laden calling al-Zarqawi "the prince of al-Qaeda in Iraq" and asked "all our organization brethren to listen to him and obey him in his good deeds
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Jordanian authorities announced they had broken up an al-Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons in Amman
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Career landmark: Emir of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (2004–2006).
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Joined al-Qaeda, and pledged allegiance to its leader Osama bin Laden
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Claimed that al-Zarqawi was still in Syria late in 2002 and when the U
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"Our own focus on al-Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will – made him more important than he really is, in some ways
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Credence was given to the claim that al-Zarqawi was alive and active
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2003· 2 entries
Then Secretary of State Colin Powell gave a speech to the United Nations Security Council
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Of Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, the Iraqi Shia leader
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2002· 5 entries
Foley was assassinated outside his home in Amman
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Cooperated with authorities, but suggested that al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden were not as closely linked as previously believed, in large part because al-Zarqawi disagreed with many of the sentiments put forward by M
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There were unverified reports from Afghan Northern Alliance members that al-Zarqawi had been killed by a missile attack in Afghanistan
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Because a foreign government service passed information regarding his whereabouts to Iraqi authorities in June 2002
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The report concludes, "most evidence suggests Saddam Hussein did not provide al-Zarqawi safe haven before the war,
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2001· 4 entries
Al-Zarqawi joined forces with al-Qaeda and the Taliban for the first time
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Al-Zarqawi allegedly dispatched his subordinate Abu Atiya from Herat to the Pankisi Gorge, Georgia
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Bin Laden repeatedly summoned al-Zarqawi from Herat to Kandahar, asking that he take an oath of allegiance to him
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“if something should come from their side, simply do not accept it”
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1999· 2 entries
Al-Zarqawi became involved in a plot to blow up the Amman Radisson hotel, where many Israeli and American tourists lodged, before New Year's Day 2000
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Al-Zarqawi was released from prison in a general amnesty by Jordan's King Abdullah
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-10-30.
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