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Nov 11, 2015 · A Portrait of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Spiritual Founder of ISIS. 8 minute read. Doubleday. Ideas. By Joby Warrick. November 11, 2015 5:29 PM EST. Joby Warrick is the author of Black Flags: The ...
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- Joby Warrick
May 17, 2016 · Before there was ISIS, there was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A onetime video-store clerk turned radical jihadist, Zarqawi was the mastermind behind the sectarian warfare that tore Iraq apart after the U ...
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- Jason M. Breslow
The CIA claimed Berg was murdered by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. [2] The decapitation video was released on the internet, reportedly from London to a Malaysian-hosted homepage by the Islamist organization Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad .
Abstract: In 2005, al-Qa`ida’s one-time security chief Saif al-`Adl chronicled a key period in the Islamic State’s origin story—the initial engagement between Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Usama bin Ladin in 1999. His history, which describes al-Qa`ida agreeing to help al-Zarqawi establish a training camp near Herat without demanding al-Zarqawi swear allegiance to bin Ladin, is a … Continued
Jun 12, 2006 · An Iraqi soldier stands guard June 10, 2006, at the scene of the air strike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in Hibhib, Iraq. Bulldozers cleared part of the site and filled a 40-foot-wide crater ...
Oct 20, 2009 · Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was born Ahmad Fadil al-Khalayleh in Zarqa, a Jordanian city north of Amman, in October 1966. Zarqa’s residents have dubbed the city "the Chicago of the Middle East" for its ...
Jun 8, 2006 · Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was believed to be behind many of the most headline-grabbing attacks of the conflict in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi had a $25 million bounty on his head ...
