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<item><title><![CDATA[ Letter Gives Glimpse of Al-Qaeda's Leadership ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/01/AR2006100101083.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/01/AR2006100101083.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Six months before the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in June, a senior al-Qaeda figure warned him in a letter that he risked removal as al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq if he continued to alienate Sunni tribal and religious leaders and rival insurgent groups. ]]></description><author>Karen DeYoung</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bin Laden Tape Calls Zarqawi 'Brave Knight' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063000002.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063000002.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Osama bin Laden praised slain al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an audiotape  released yesterday as a "brave knight" and a "lion of jihad" whose small band of fighters had humiliated the United States and the Iraqis who fought against him. ]]></description><author>Karen DeYoung</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Learning From Our Fatal Mistakes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901454.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901454.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We wanted him dead or alive. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Giving Zarqawi His Due on Page 1 ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601615.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601615.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Post editors used a forward-looking story that combined breaking news and analysis to lead the paper the day after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed June 8. Some readers thought the story was underplayed and negative; others wanted straight news saying that U.S. forces had killed an important enemy.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215630710" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215630710" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Deborah Howell</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Iraq's Atomization ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402004.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402004.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The dust having settled -- 500-pound bombs can raise, and even manufacture, a lot of dust -- it is time to give the devil his due. To understand the diabolical genius of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, that pornographer of violence, begin with this: ]]></description><author>George F. Will</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Officials Detail Zarqawi's Last Hour ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061200298.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061200298.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, June 12 -- Insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi lived for 52 minutes, in and out of consciousness, before he succumbed to massive internal injuries caused by the concussive blasts from two 500-pound bombs dropped by a U.S. fighter jet, U.S. military officials in Baghdad said Monday. ]]></description><author>Joshua Partlow and Michael Abramowitz</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi Group Vows to Press Attacks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100711.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100711.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, June 11 -- Al-Qaeda in Iraq reiterated its faith in Osama bin Laden on Sunday and vowed to carry out attacks that would "shake the earth underneath the enemy," according to a statement posted on the Internet four days after the death of the insurgent group's leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. ]]></description><author>Joshua Partlow</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi's Hideout Was Secret Till Last Minute ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/10/AR2006061000528.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/10/AR2006061000528.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, June 10 -- Mounted at the last minute by a single F-16 that was pulled away from refueling, the airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi stemmed from tracking a top aide of the guerrilla chief to a hideout whose location was unknown until shortly before the attack, a top U.S. military spokesman disclosed Saturday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215631456" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215631456" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi's Hideout: Bombed, Bulldozed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/10/AR2006061000892.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/10/AR2006061000892.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ HIBHIB, Iraq, June 10 -- The two bombs that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, left a strange tomb nestled in the quiet farmland about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. ]]></description><author>Nelson Hernandez</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Death Could Shake Al-Qaeda In Iraq and Around the World ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060902040.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060902040.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BERLIN, June 9 -- The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could mark a turning point for al-Qaeda and the global jihadist movement, according to terrorism analysts and intelligence officials. ]]></description><author>Craig Whitlock</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi Lived After Airstrike ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060900473.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060900473.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, June 9 -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was clinging to life when Iraqi and, later, American forces arrived at the scene of the bombing that killed him, a U.S. general said Friday, revising his earlier account of the al-Qaeda leader's death. Meanwhile, other circumstances surrounding the killing remained cloudy. ]]></description><author>Jonathan Finer  and Hasan Shammari</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi Helped U.S. Argument That Al-Qaeda Network Was in Iraq ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901578.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901578.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ From the moment President Bush introduced him to the American people in October 2002, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi served a crucial purpose for the administration, providing a tangible focus for its insistence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network responsible for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215632736" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215632736" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ After Zarqawi, No Clear Path In Weary Iraq ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800819.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800819.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, June 8 -- Analysts and military spokesmen said Thursday that the death of insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed Wednesday when two 500-pound bombs obliterated his hideout north of Baghdad, will not extinguish the sectarian conflict that he helped foment and that is now claiming many more lives in Iraq than his campaign of beheadings and bombings. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ How U.S. Forces Found Iraq's Most-Wanted Man ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060802044.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060802044.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, June 8 -- To kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, U.S. forces first found his spiritual adviser. Then they had to wait. They tracked the adviser for weeks, until he met Iraq's most-wanted man Wednesday night in a village north of Baghdad. As the two huddled in a farmhouse, an F-16 warplane blasted it with two 500-pound bombs, killing them and at least four other people. ]]></description><author>Jonathan Finer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ White House Sees Diplomatic, Political Opportunities ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801830.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801830.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi opened an opportunity yesterday for the White House to show that its military mission can still prevail in Iraq, and administration officials moved quickly to try to seize the diplomatic and political initiative. ]]></description><author>Michael Abramowitz and Glenn Kessler</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Joy in the Streets: 'A Day of Festivity' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801652.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801652.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, June 8 -- The patrons of Ameer Madhloom's restaurant in central Baghdad stared at the television Thursday morning, stunned into silence by what they had just heard: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was dead.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215633288" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215633288" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Nelson Hernandez  and Naseer Nouri</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ With a Death, an Opening ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801534.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801534.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIRUT -- The Arab news channels were all carrying the same image of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, taken from Thursday's Pentagon briefing. He looked almost baby-faced in death, but people in this part of the world understood what he symbolized. This was the face of raw physical intimidation, the symbol of a nation pulverized by pure terror. ]]></description><author>David Ignatius</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Chilling Portrait, Unsuitably Framed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801890.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060801890.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The frame surrounding an image of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's head, revealed to the world as proof the terrorist is dead, is bizarre. When the picture was displayed at a U.S. military news briefing, Zarqawi's face was seen inside what appeared to be a professional photographic mat job, with a large frame, as if it were something one might preserve and hang on the wall next to other family portraits. One function of frames is to bound an image, and close down its open edges; frames delimit, both physically and by extension, metaphorically. But that was the last thing this frame was doing. ]]></description><author>Philip Kennicott</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Across the U.S., Zarqawi's Death Hailed as Victory ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800967.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800967.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:00:10 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When President Bush was first informed at 4:35 p.m. yesterday that a U.S. airstrike may have killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, he reacted more with relief than jubilation at the demise of a man who had come to symbolize terrorist violence in Iraq. ]]></description><author>William Branigin</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Insurgent Leader Al-Zarqawi Killed in Iraq ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800114.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800114.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:57:07 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, June 8 --Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mastermind behind hundreds of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq, was killed early Wednesday by an airstrike --north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215633806" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215633806" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer and Jonathan Finer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Where Is Your Zarqawi Statement? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800847.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800847.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:39:07 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You've got to get up early to beat John Cornyn. ]]></description><author>Dana Milbank</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Al-Zarqawi's Biography ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800299.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/08/AR2006060800299.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:45:07 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Portions of this article were originally published Sept. 27, 2004. It has been updated with more recent information about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the events leading up to his death. ]]></description><author>Craig Whitlock</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Now Playing in Iraq: Zarqawi Outtakes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/04/AR2006050400454.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/04/AR2006050400454.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, May 4 -- Insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is seen puzzling over how to fire a machine gun and trotting around in tennis shoes in a video that the U.S. military released Thursday to mock his prowess as a field commander. ]]></description><author>Nelson Hernandez</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi Taunts U.S. in Video ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/25/AR2006042500893.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/25/AR2006042500893.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, showed his face in a video for the first time yesterday, accusing President Bush of lying to Americans about U.S. military victories in Iraq and vowing to destroy efforts to form a new government there.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215634599" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215634599" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Karen DeYoung</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Detainee's Transfer Blocked ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/08/AR2006020802225.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/08/AR2006020802225.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An American citizen who was captured in Iraq and is being held for trial there is a close associate of Abu Musab Zarqawi, was harboring foreign terrorists in Baghdad and was plotting kidnappings, according to documents filed in federal court by the Justice Department. ]]></description><author>Josh White</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ramadi Insurgents Flaunt Threat ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120100271.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120100271.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, Dec. 1 -- Armed fighters claiming allegiance to Abu Musab Zarqawi took to the streets of a western Iraqi provincial capital Thursday in a fleeting show aimed at intimidating Iraqi Sunni Arab leaders taking part in dialogue with U.S. Marines in a stronghold of the insurgency, provincial officials, residents and other witnesses said. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mosul Raid Missed Zarqawi, U.S. Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112100325.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112100325.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BABYLON, Iraq, Nov. 21 -- A massive raid on a house in northern Iraq where insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi was said to be hiding failed to capture or kill him, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Monday. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Amman Bombings Reflect Zarqawi's Growing Reach ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111201201.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111201201.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BERLIN, Nov. 12 -- Triple suicide bombings in Jordan this week marked a breakthrough for Islamic guerrilla leader Abu Musab Zarqawi in his efforts to expand the Iraqi insurgency into a regional conflict and demonstrated his growing independence from the founders of al Qaeda, according to Arab and European intelligence officials.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215635343" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215635343" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Craig Whitlock</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi 'Hijacked' Insurgency ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092701601.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092701601.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD -- The top U.S. military intelligence officer in Iraq said Abu Musab Zarqawi and his foreign and Iraqi associates have essentially commandeered the insurgency, becoming the dominant opposition force and the greatest immediate threat to U.S. objectives in the country. ]]></description><author>Bradley Graham</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Claims Success in Iraq Despite Onslaught ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091801593.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091801593.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD -- Using enemy body counts as a benchmark, the U.S. military claimed gains against Abu Musab Zarqawi's foreign-led fighters last week even as they mounted their deadliest attacks on Iraq's capital. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Strong Evidence' Points to Zarqawi ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/14/AR2005091402362.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/14/AR2005091402362.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DOHA, Qatar, Sept. 14 -- A senior U.S. military officer said Wednesday that much of the preparation for the wave of bombings that struck Baghdad on Wednesday originated in the Euphrates River valley west of the Iraqi capital, an area that officials say is used by insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi as his base of operations. ]]></description><author>Bradley Graham</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Talabani Upbeat on Iraq's Challenges and Its Neighbors ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/AR2005091302406.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/AR2005091302406.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Iraqi President Jalal Talabani spoke ebulliently on Monday and cast a positive spin on the daunting task of nation-building. Talabani, in an interview with Washington Post reporters and columnists, said that despite bombings and armed conflict, the Jordanian insurgent leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi , has failed in his attempt to spark a wider conflict in Iraq.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215636892" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215636892" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Nora Boustany</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Insurgents Assert Control Over Town Near Syrian Border ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090500313.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090500313.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 -- Fighters loyal to militant leader Abu Musab Zarqawi asserted control over the key Iraqi border town of Qaim on Monday, killing U.S. collaborators and enforcing strict Islamic law, according to tribal members, officials, residents and others in the town and nearby villages. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer and Jonathan Finer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Warplanes Target Alleged Rebel Havens Along Iraq-Syria Border ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083000735.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083000735.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 -- U.S. warplanes bombed alleged safe houses being used by Abu Musab Zarqawi's insurgent group near the Syrian border Tuesday during what one local leader called an unprecedented push by a Sunni Arab tribe to drive out Zarqawi's foreign-led forces. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer  and Omar Fekeiki</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Iraqi Sunnis Battle To Defend Shiites ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081301209.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081301209.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, Aug. 14 -- Rising up against insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi, Iraqi Sunni Muslims in Ramadi fought with grenade launchers and automatic weapons Saturday to defend their Shiite neighbors against a bid to drive them from the western city, Sunni leaders and Shiite residents said. The fighting came as the U.S. military announced the deaths of six American soldiers. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer  and Jonathan Finer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Web as Weapon ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080801018.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080801018.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last of three parts<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215637910" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215637910" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Susan B. Glasser and Steve Coll</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Doubts Zarqawi Went to Syria ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/03/AR2005060301744.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/03/AR2005060301744.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ U.S. intelligence now discounts reports that the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, crossed into Syria earlier this year for a summit with the heads of Iraqi insurgent groups to map out a new strategy of suicide bombings against U.S. and Iraqi forces, administration officials said yesterday. ]]></description><author>Robin Wright</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi Followers Clash With Local Sunnis ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/28/AR2005052800967.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/28/AR2005052800967.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, May 28 -- For four days this month, U.S. Marines were onlookers at just the kind of fight they had hoped to see: a battle between suspected followers of Abu Musab Zarqawi, a foreign-born insurgent, and Iraqi Sunni tribal fighters at the western frontier town of Husaybah. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Reports: Zarqawi Shot in Lung ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501966.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501966.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, May 25 -- Insurgents said Wednesday in interviews and statements on the Internet that the leader of the group al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, was struggling with a gunshot wound to the lung. One of Zarqawi's commanders said the Jordanian guerrilla was receiving oxygen, heightening suspicion that the groundwork was being laid for an announcement of his replacement or death. ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Insurgent Chief Wounded, Aide Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/24/AR2005052400105.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/24/AR2005052400105.html?nav=rss_world/special/7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2005 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BAGHDAD, May 24 -- Insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi, the most-wanted man in Iraq, was shot and wounded in a weekend ambush by U.S. and Iraqi forces, according to one of his lieutenants and a statement attributed to his organization, al Qaeda in Iraq.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215638846" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=40215638846" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Ellen Knickmeyer and Saad Sarhan</author></item>
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