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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 ...
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.
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]
Abu Musab may refer to: Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh, also known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri; Mohamedou Ould Salahi, Mauritanian former detainee at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp
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 At the time, the only photos and videos of Zarqawi were outdated.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 ...
The former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, who was the Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, maintained a safehouse in the village. [2] On June 7, 2006, while meeting in the safehouse with his spiritual adviser, he was bombed and killed by U.S.-led coalition aircraft.
Insurgent strength and control began to grow to such an extent that by 24 September 2004, a senior U.S. official told ABC News that catching Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said to be in Fallujah, was now "the highest priority," and estimated his troops at 5,000 men, mostly non-Iraqis. [30]