The Associated Press is reporting that terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed.
Read the rest of the AP story here.Iraqi PM: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed
The Associated Press is reporting that terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida-linked militant who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, has been killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister said Thursday.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed Wednesday evening along with seven aides.
According to Wikipedia:
Read more here.Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) was a Salafi muslim militant, a guerrilla leader, and the self-proclaimed leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. One or more individuals identifying themselves as Zarqawi took responsibility, on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of violence in Iraq, including the killing of civilians and the taking of hostages. He was also allegedly responsible for many other acts of violence, including the beheading of hostages in Iraq.
As an Islamist militant, Zarqawi opposed the presence of U.S., Israeli and Western military forces in the Islamic world. In September 2005, he reportedly declared "all-out war" on Shia Muslims in Iraq [1], and is believed responsible for dispatching numerous Al-Qaeda suicide bombers throughout Iraq, and especially to areas with large concentrations of Shia civilians.
Zarqawi, believed to be a long time ally of Osama bin Laden, was a high-ranking member of bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, and since October 2004 had referred to his own organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, or Monotheism and Holy War Group, an insurgent network operating in Iraq, as "Al-Qaida in Iraq". On October 21, 2004, Zarqawi officially announced his allegiance to Al Qaida; on December 27, 2004, Al Jazeera broadcast an audiotape of bin Laden calling 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." [2]
Zarqawi was the most wanted man in Jordan and Iraq, [3] having participated in or masterminded a number of violent actions against United States and Iraqi targets. The U.S. government offered a USD$25 million reward for information leading to his capture, the same amount offered for the capture of bin Laden before March 2004. On 15 October 2004, the U.S. State Department added Zarqawi and the Jama'at al-Tawhid wal Jihad group to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and ordered a freeze on any assets that the group might have in the United States. On February 24, 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice's 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. [4]
One alias, Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh, is believed to be his real name. The surname Zarqawi literally translates as "man from Zarqa". Zarqawi is a native of the Jordanian town of Zarqa, located 30 minutes northeast of the capital Amman.
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