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Al-Qaeda in Iraq [a] (Arabic: القاعدة في العراق, romanized: Al-Qāʿidah fī al-ʿIrāq; AQI), was a Salafi jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. [1] [10] [11] [2] It was founded on 17 October 2004, [1] and was led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until its disbandment on 15 October 2006 after he was killed in a targeted bombing on June 7, 2006 in Hibhib, Iraq by the United ...
The intelligence gathered in these raids gave JSOC a clear intelligence picture of a group of Al-Qaeda cells around Baghdad, suggesting that their tactics had evolved. [ 3 ] Operation Larchwood 4 was part of an intense series of operations in the Triangle of Death , most of which were carried out by Delta Force and other US forces.
Speculation has grown that the U.S. used a secret Hellfire missile nicknamed the 'knife bomb' to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri.
Al-Qaeda defector al-Fadl, who was a former member of Qatar Charity, testified in court that Abdullah Mohammed Yusef, who served as Qatar Charity's director, was affiliated to al-Qaeda and simultaneously to the National Islamic Front, a political group that gave al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden harbor in Sudan in the early 1990s.
Al-Zawahiri was one of the planners of the September 11 attacks against the United States. He succeeded Osama bin Laden as leader of al-Qaeda after bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan on 2 May 2011. He was located and tracked by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) months before his death.
In late 2006, al-Qaeda in Iraq forces began a quiet troop build-up in Baqubah, naming it the capital of their "Islamic State of Iraq". As a result of the Baghdad Security Plan , in early 2007 al-Qaeda in Iraq forces withdrew from Baghdad in large numbers and began furthering operations in Diyala province. [ 20 ]
This is better than having them killed one by one". [32] [20] United States – White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said: "The United States strongly condemns this senseless act of hostage taking and violence by terrorists linked to al Qaeda in Iraq that occurred Sunday in Baghdad killing so many innocent Iraqis". [33]