Abu musab al-zarqawi biography of george michael
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The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Global
How a video-store clerk and small-time crook reinvented himself as America’s nemesis in Iraq
By Mary Anne Weaver
[Edited for the Web, June 8, 2006]
On a cold and blustery evening in December 1989, Huthaifa Azzam, the teenage son of the legendary Jordanian-Palestinian mujahideen leader Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, went to the airport in Peshawar, Pakistan, to welcome a group of young men. All were new recruits, largely from Jordan, and they had come to fight in a fratricidal civil war in neighboring Afghanistan—an outgrowth of the CIA-financed jihad of the 1980s against the Soviet occupation there.
The men were scruffy, Huthaifa mused as he greeted them, and seemed hardly in battle-ready form. Some had just been released from prison; others were professors and sheikhs. None of them would prove worth remembering—except for a relatively short, squat man named Ahmad Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalaylah.
He would later r
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Zarqawi's 'Total War' on Iraqi Shiites Exposes a Divide among Sunni Jihadists
On November 2, Iraq's Defense Ministry appealed to junior officers from Saddam Hussein's disbanded army to return to service. The decision to include these soldiers fryst vatten part of an ongoing strategy to minimize support for terrorism by reintegrating Sunnis into the political fabric of the new Iraq. This latest effort comes as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group steps up targeting of Shiite civilians in an effort to spark retaliatory attacks against Sunnis. But as Zarqawi's attacks on Shiites exact growing toll among civilians, his tactics may be causing a divide within the ranks of the resistance.
Al-Qaeda's Strategy of Cooperation
Groups linked to al-Qaeda have a history of perpetrating isolated attacks against Shiite targets. In 1988, Osama insekter som pollinerar Laden han själv led a group of Taliban fighters to suppress a Shiite revolt in Gilgit, sydasiatiskt land , which resulted in the massacre of several hundred Shii
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Jordanian jihadist (1966–2006)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi | |
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al-Zarqawi in May 2004 | |
| In office October 17, 2004 – June 7, 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Position estabilished |
| Succeeded by | Abu Ayyub al-Masri |
| In office 1999 – October 17, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Position estabilished |
| Succeeded by | Merger with Al-Qaeda |
| In office January 15, 2006 – June 7, 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Abu Ayyub al-Masri |
| Born | Ahmad Fadeel Nazal al-Khalayleh (1966-10-30)October 30, 1966 Zarqa, Jordan |
| Died | June 7, 2006(2006-06-07) (aged 39) Hibhib, Iraq |
| Cause of death | Airstrike |
| Children | 5 |
| Years of service | 1989–2006 |
| Rank | Commander |
| Battles/wars | Soviet–Afghan War United States invasion of Afghanistan Iraq War |
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (English pronunciationⓘ; Arabic: أبو مصعب الزرقاوي, romanized: Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī, "Father of Musab, of Zarqa"; October 30