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The wife of slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said she feared for her husband's life and warned him to leave Iraq, but that he refused to "betray" his religion, according to a statement posted on the Internet Thursday.

Al-Qaida leaders sold out Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to the United States in exchange for a promise to let up in the search for Osama bin Laden, the slain militant's wife claimed in an interview with an Italian newspaper.
Osama bin Laden's voice sounded tired in an audiotape released Friday and, once again, he conspicuously avoided showing his face.

Jordan rebuked Human Rights Watch on Monday for criticizing the kingdom's arrest of four lawmakers after they paid condolences to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's family.

Human Rights Watch criticized Jordan's arrest of four lawmakers who visited the family of slain terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, calling it a violation of freedom of expression.
The new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq vowed to avenge the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and threatened horrific attacks "in the coming days," according to a Web statement Tuesday — the first from the new terrorist leader.
Four lawmakers for an Islamic party have been charged with instigating sectarian strife for paying their condolences to relatives of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a judicial official said Tuesday.
The last minutes of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zaraqi after Wednesday's U.S. airstrike, according to the U.S. military. All times are local for Iraq.
Al-Qaida in Iraq named a successor Monday to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and said he would stick to the slain leader's path — attacks on Shiites as well as on U.S. and Iraqi forces.

A medic spent about 20 minutes trying to save Abu Musab al-Zarqawi even as blood ran from the terrorist's mouth after the airstrike that mortally wounded him, the U.S. military said Monday.
The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi raised hopes that Iraq's slide toward civil war or sectarian disintegration could be arrested, but there are signs that Shiite-Sunni antagonism may now be too deeply rooted.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes after a U.S. warplane bombed his hideout northeast of Baghdad, and he died of massive internal injuries consistent with those caused by a bomb blast, the U.S. military said Monday.

President Fidel Castro called the U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a "barbarity," saying he should have been put on trial.

Al-Qaida in Iraq vowed Sunday to carry out "major attacks," insisting in a Web statement that it was still powerful after the death of leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi asked three Islamist lawmakers to intervene with Jordan's government to bring the slain militant's body home for burial, one of the lawmakers said Saturday.
The U.S. military flew in two forensic specialists Saturday to examine the remains of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi "to see how he actually died" and to reconstruct the last minutes of his life, a spokesman said.
An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene of the U.S. airstrike targeting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al-Qaida leader.
The family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said Friday they want to bury him in his hometown, but Jordan vowed the terror leader who killed Jordanians in a triple hotel bombing would never "stain" the country's soil.
The Taliban's fugitive supreme leader mourned the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and vowed Friday to keep fighting in Afghanistan, according to a statement.
Sympathizers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi rushed Friday to swear allegiance to his successor on Islamic militant Web sites, but it was still unclear who that would be.
A U.S. military search of the destroyed safehouse where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed yielded documents and information storage devices that are being assessed for potential use against his terror network, a military officer said Friday.
As he lay dying, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could barely speak, and he struggled and tried to get away after Iraqi police put him on a stretcher in the ruins of his hideout.
Now that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead, there seems little certainty who will succeed the brutal killer who was the most wanted terrorist in Iraq.
To his supporters, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a holy warrior, the "slaughtering sheik" who defended Islam against American crusaders and Shiite infidels. For the Americans, he was the evil terrorist behind the Iraqi insurgency.

Iraqi and U.S. forces zeroed in Abu Musab al-Zarqawi several times over three years only to see him narrowly escape. In the end, his own terrorist network betrayed him.

At first blush, the similarities between Zarqawi and Basayev appear significant. Both used Islam to inspire followers and legitimize violent force. Both led dynamic insurgencies embracing comparable military tactics. Both appear to have been betrayed by inside sources.
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the purported successor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is in an Egyptian prison and not Iraq, a lawyer has claimed.
Waiel Abdul-Latif, a member of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's party, said Monday that authorities found the numbers after al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed in a US air strike on June 7.
In a new TIME survey, Americans say the President is performing poorly and that the country is increasingly on the wrong track. For those keeping score at home - Bush is down to 35%... Congress is even lower.
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Juan Cole: Bush's Mideast policies have turned a brutal terrorist into an icon of resistance -- and made violent fundamentalism more popular.
The fact that the probe findings came less than two weeks after the outbreak of news that the U.S. forces in Iraq killed Abu Mus’ab Al Zarqawi, the man who rose from obscurity to prominence with the help of the U.S.
Let me get this out right up front. I am delighted that Abu Musab al- Zarqawi is dead and three cheers for our side. I don't care whether the bomb got him, whether he was beaten to death, or shot after the bombs dropped.
Martin Sieff: Zarqawi not only ran al-Qaida operations throughout Iraq with an iron fist, but he was the dominant figure on the Mujahedeen Shura Cuncuil, which claims to have 15 operational brigades of insurgents plus a further two suicide brigades that carry out almost all the s …
The US says coalition forces in Iraq have carried out more than 450 raids since the death last week of al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The US said 104 insurgents were killed and 759 "anti-Iraqi elements" captured.
Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi planned to try to destroy the relationship between the United States and its Shiite allies in Iraq and help start a war between America and Iran.
The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi marks the "beginning of the end" of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the country's national security adviser has said.
The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has done little to improve views of how things are going for the U.S. in Iraq or boost President Bush's approval ratings, a CBS News poll finds.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq named a successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Monday and said he would press ahead with the bloody campaign begun by the Jordanian militant killed last week.
AMMAN, June 12 (Reuters) - Jordan on Monday began legal action against four Islamist deputies accused of voicing sympathy for slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
While his death is significant, I don't think much has been gained in terms of the "War on Terror". Al-Zarqawi has already been replaced by another leader. His death has not changed the nature of the conflict in Iraq whatsoever. Why, then, are we celebrating?
Iraq Premier: $25M to Be Paid on Al-Zarqawi Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday that the $25 million bounty on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's head will be honored. "We will meet our promise," al-Maliki told al-Arabiya television without elaborating.
The former leader of the US-led interim government in Iraq talks about the fight for Iraq and the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an exclusive interview on ""This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
Once the soldiers had established the man was not a threat, they started to kick him in the chest, said Abbas and an Iraqi policeman also there. “They kept kicking him, shouting, ‘What’s your name?’, but the man only moaned and said nothing,” said Abbas.
Michel Chossudovsky: Has the US created, as part of a covert intelligence operation, a bogus "resistance movement" made up of its own Al Qaeda sponsored "terrorists"? Their suicide attacks target Iraqi civilians rather than the US military.
Saddam's generals, mostly Sunnis, who had, we learned, secretly collaborated with the US invasion and now expected their reward found themselves hunted and arrested.
To hell with Zarqawi (or Zayrkawi as Bush calls him). He was an American creation - he came along with them - they don't need him anymore, apparently.
An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene of the US airstrike targeting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al Qaeda leader. They wrapped his head in an Arab robe and began beating him, the local man said.
Dennis Perrin: I'm somewhat surprised that US military officials didn't sever Zarqawi's head, pack it in ice, ship it overnight to DC and have Rumsfeld or Tony Snow or some other administration figure hold it up by the hair and encourage the Beltway press corps to file by and …
AP reports that an Iraqi living near the site of the bombing said US troops beat an injured man resembling al-Zarqawi until blood flowed from the man's nose. More question over the death of Al Zarqawi. I think people need to make up their own minds.