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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (English pronunciation ⓘ; Arabic: أبو مصعب الزرقاوي, romanized: Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī, "Father of Musab, of Zarqa"; October 30, 1966 [1] [2] [3] – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel Nazal al-Khalayleh (Arabic: أحمد فضيل نزال الخلايلة, romanized: Aḥmad Faḍīl Nazāl al-Khalāyla), was a Jordanian militant jihadist who ran a ...
The United States and its allies point to Jordanian-born Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the key player in this group. Zarqawi was considered the head of an insurgent group called Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad ("Monotheism and Holy War") until his death on 7 June 2006, which according to U.S. estimates numbers in the low hundreds.
Nicholas Evan Berg (April 2, 1978 – May 7, 2004) was an American freelance radio-tower repairman [1] who went to Iraq after the United States' invasion of Iraq.He was abducted and beheaded according to a video released in May 2004 by Islamist militants in response to the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse involving the United States Army and Iraqi prisoners.
Bay'at al-Imam (English: "Allegiance to the Imam") was a jihadist group active from 1994 to 1999, led by Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi and later Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some scholars dispute the group's existence.
They discovered videos and pictures of Zarqawi giving political messages and posing with his follower. At the time, the only photos and videos of Zarqawi were outdated. Nine days after the raid, Zarqawi released a propaganda video under the logo of the MSC, the same video that the SAS captured, albeit edited, the video's contents were, in ...
On May 11, 2004, the website of the Islamist forum Muntada al-Ansar reposted a video titled "Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi slaughters an American", [2] [3] which shows American citizen Nick Berg being decapitated. [4] [5] The web page, on a site located in Malaysia, was then shut down a few days after by the domain provider. [6] [7]
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 ...
U.S. and Iraqi officials accused Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of orchestrating Muhammad Baqir's assassination. They claimed that Yassin Jarad, Zarqawi's father-in-law, was the suicide bomber who detonated the bomb. [5] The US Department of Defense condemned the August 29, 2003 bombing at the Imam Ali Mosque in Al Najaf, Iraq.