Word: zarqawi
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...abductees were released, many remain unaccounted for.) Abu Deraa has a personal fondness for gruesome torture. One of his signature techniques is running a drill into the skull of his live victim. His appetite for mayhem is so vast that Iraqis call him the "Shi'ite Zarqawi"; and like the al-Qaeda-in-Iraq leader, who was killed by a U.S. air strike last June, Abu Deraa has largely operated in the shadows, avoiding public appearances and almost never giving interviews...
...When the recently slain terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi executed American Nicholas Berg, he went out of his way to specify that the gruesome murder was an act of revenge for crimes committed by the U.S. military against Muslims at the prison. Both Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, use events at the prison to explain their calls for Holy War against the U.S. "Al-Qaeda and other Jihadis still cite Abu Ghraib to demonstrate what they call U.S. crimes against Muslims," notes Rita Katz, director and co-founder of the SITE Institute, who has made...
...longer anything on the event horizon to suggest any prospect of imminent turnaround. Previously, U.S. officials could reinforce the Bush Administration's "stay the course" message by pointing to forthcoming handovers of power or elections, the creation of a national unity government or the killing of the terrorist Zarqawi as potential watershed moments. But all those milestones have long been passed, and still the insurgency rages, sectarian killings are at an all-time high, reconstruction remains hobbled by the security situation and a slide toward civil war threatens to tear the country apart. In July alone, Iraq lost more civilians...
...rather than heed President Bush's urging to take al-Qaeda at its word, French officials saw no new danger in their starring role in Zawahiri's rant. "The alliance with the GSPC isn't new, in that the group pledged its loyalty and assistance to Zarqawi back in March of 2005," said one senior French counter-terror official, referring to the Qaeda In Iraq leader, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, killed in April. "Frankly, we still view any networks or projects Zarqawi's wider group may have begun before he was killed as more immediately dangerous than a new partnership...
...Says the French official, "We looked at Zarqawi's message this time and mostly thought, ?If that's the best he's got, he's starting to lose...