Word: al-zarqawi
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...Narrow Escape Al-Zarqawi personally decapitates U.S. contractor Nicholas Berg on videotape. In the fall of 2004, a massive U.S.-led operation in jihadi-infested Fallujah fails to nab al-Zarqawi. Some reports suggest he was wounded in the fighting and escaped to Iran...
...Chief Spoiler In 2005, as an elected Iraqi government struggles to maintain stability, al-Zarqawi intensifies his bombing campaign, focusing on Shi?ite targets, with a view to starting a civil...
...Terror Base Released in a general amnesty in 1999, al-Zarqawi returns to Afghanistan and the jihad. He meets Osama bin Laden in 2000 but doesn?t join al-Qaeda. He runs a terrorist-training camp in western Afghanistan...
...Frontier After the fall of the Taliban, al-Zarqawi slips out through Iran to northern Iraq, linking up with local terrorism groups. He achieves global notoriety when Colin Powell names him in his February 2003 U.N. speech laying out the U.S.?s case for invading Iraq...
...Blow by Blow In the summer of 2003, al-Zarqawi?s group, al-Tawhid wal-Jihad launches a deadly suicide-bombing campaign in Iraq, including attacks on the U.N. compound in Baghdad, killing 22, and the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, killing about...