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🔗stephenszpak <stephen_szpak@...>

6/10/2006 4:32:49 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_al_zarqawi

The U.S. military displayed images of the battered face of
Iraq's most feared terrorist Thursday and Iraqis celebrated with
gunfire after American bombs killed the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq...

Al-Zarqawi was known for his extraordinary brutality as one of the
extremist leaders in the largely Sunni Arab insurgency, earning him
the title of "the slaughtering sheik" among his followers...His
followers were believed responsible for the deaths of thousands of
Iraqi Shiites, mainly in a campaign of roadside bombings and suicide
attacks.