BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose bloody campaign of beheadings and suicide bombings made him the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq, was killed when U.S. warplanes dropped 500-pound bombs ...

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The Iraq War is replacing the attacks of September 11, 2001, as fodder for conspiracy theories emanating from the Middle East – in particular, questions surrounding Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi. Does he ...

U.S. and Iraqi forces zeroed in on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi over two weeks, finally tracking his spiritual adviser to the terrorist leader’s doorstep and unleashing the airstrike that killed them ...

Although many experts believe al-Zarqawi had longtime ties to al-Qaida, others suspected that al-Zarqawi considered himself a rival to bin Laden for the mantle of chief defender of the Muslim faith.

But the man responsible for the deaths of thousands was not wearing the suicide belt he vowed to use if American soldiers ever caught him. Seeking to dispel allegations that al-Zarqawi was beaten ...

Madeleine Brand speaks with Jean-Charles Brisard, author of Zarqawi: The New Face of Al-Qaeda, about the life and death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The Jordanian-born terrorist leader was at the top ...

BAGHDAD, June 15 -- U.S. military leaders Thursday unveiled a photograph of the Egyptian-born explosives expert they believe has been tapped as the apparent successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the ...

Zarqawi has been associated with other groups besides Tawhid. Most notorious is Ansar al Islam, a largely Kurdish organization operating out of Northern Iraq, which U.S. officials have linked to ...

An earlier letter to al-Zarqawi, written in July 2005 by bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, made some of the same points in more formal and less pointed words.

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s father-in-law carried out a suicide bombing that killed a leading Iraqi cleric in the Shiite holy city of Najaf in 2003, according to two senior ...