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...taunted and harangued the U.S. in videos and statements posted on the Internet, in recent months it was the sectarian war that consumed most of his energy. He launched scores of attacks against Shi'ites and their religious sites, culminating in the Feb. 22 bombing of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra...
...March 2003. In the chaotic days after the fall of Saddam, al-Zarqawi began to build a terrorist network by luring foreign jihadis to Iraq. He pulled off his first two spectacular attacks with the August 2003 bombings of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf...
...Bombing of Shiite Shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad. Iraqi insurgents deny a connection, but the Iraqi government blames al-Zarqawi...
...troubled by something but couldn't go into it over the phone. On Nov. 19, Martin felt ill and threw up; then he received a phone call to head to his grandfather's house. "I knew even before I got there," he says. His grandfather Jorge has a makeshift shrine to Miguel in what was once the young man's bedroom. In it is a quilt the Marines presented to Miguel's family at Camp Pendleton as a tribute to him. "My wife cries all the time now," says the 65-year-old. "It's breaking her heart what they...
...government would launch an investigation into the 24 Haditha killings and called U.S. attacks against Iraqi civilians "a regular occurrence," at least 18 Iraqis died at the hands of their countrymen. The rate of sectarian killings has escalated sharply since the Feb. 22 bombing of a major Shi'ite shrine in Samarra. In Baghdad alone, morgue officials say they have received at least 3,500 bodies since the bombing. Some of those officials have told TIME they routinely understated the toll because of political pressure from the interim Iraqi government to deny that the capital was in the throes...