Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri had criticized the Jordanian-born founder and leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for his killing of civilians and lack of political acumen to win public support.
The CIA is checking claims that top al-Qaeda suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was involved in the killing of Mr Berg.
Al-Jayousi admitted that he was trained in Iraq by al Qaeda deputy Abu Musab al-Zarqawi sometime after the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Al-Masri is an Egyptian who replaced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as head of al Qaeda in Iraq after al-Zarqawi's death in a U.S. airstrike last June.
It seems, too, that the Arab world may be turning against the more extreme part of the insurgency the jihadists led by al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who blow up mosques around Baghdad and Palestinian wedding parties in Jordan (see article).
The Jordanian arch-terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said to be responsible for many of the most gruesome acts of violence in Fallujah and elsewhere, may have fled the city before the big American assault.
When the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed by a U.S. airstrike in 2006, Vause was the only international reporter who visited the scene.
Shaker al-Abssi, the leader of the Fatah al-Islam group that is involved in that conflict stands accused in Jordan of having conspired with Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born founder of al-Qaida in Iraq, to carry out terrorist attacks on Western targets in Jordan.
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Ibrahim Bin Shakaran of Morocco was released in 2004 and soon re-arrested and convicted by Moroccan authorities for recruiting terrorists for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
However, set against the backdrop of recent, noticeable progress toward securing Iraq - including the formation of a government and elimination of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - the vote was far from a thorough rejection of the cut-and-run mentality encouraged by opponents of the war.
Witness the case of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian believed to be leading hundreds of Islamist militants in Iraq.
The terrorist group, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has released previous videos showing foreign workers pleading for their government's help.
Meanwhile, an extreme Islamist group, led by a Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, kidnapped Egypt's envoy to Iraq and said they had killed him.
Violence continues in Iraq as supporters of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi warned on a website that they will continue attacks against Iraqis.
It'll mean reaching beyond the followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq killed in a U.S. air strike last week.
An Islamist Web site used by the group led by wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had shown video of Koda shortly after the abduction.
Jordan provided key information on the whereabouts of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in 2004.
The organisation of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian affiliate of al-Qaeda, is thought to be active there, funnelling in car bombs and foreign fighters from Syria.
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Though foreign fighters, such as those linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, will fight to the last, the hope is to bring Iraqi Sunnis into peaceful politics.
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It has provided intelligence to Iraq and the coalition in their effort to fight insurgents and hunt down Jordanian native Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former head of al Qaeda in Iraq.
General John Abizaid, America's military chief in the region, said there was intelligence linking the attacks to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a fugitive extremist suspected of working for Osama bin Laden's terror network.
And even though the letter is supposed to be addressed to al-Zarqawi, the last line says, "By God, if by chance you're going to Fallujah, send greetings to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, " another puzzling inconsistency.
The former Green Beret has also been credited with playing a key role in the capture of Saddam Hussein, and he led the group that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Insurgents affiliated with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq have been gravitating toward the city west of Baghdad and the surrounding region as a means to escape other towns along the Euphrates River, said the spokesman, Maj.
Both Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, made appeals to Muslims to support the group's war with the West: Mr bin Laden on an audiotape and Mr Zarqawi in a video posted on the internet.
According to a Middle Eastern official, a number of them had worked as lieutenants for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed by a U.S. air strike in 2006 after directing a campaign that killed hundreds of Americans and Iraqi civilians.
Although Arab newspapers and political and religious leaders have condemned the ruthless tactics of militants like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as completely against Islam, the resonance of these denunciations is usually drowned out quickly by the next round of Iraqi or Palestinian deaths brought in all their immediacy and anguish into Arab homes by al-Jazeera and its rivals.
Foreign insurgents will continue to do their best to bring the new government down, especially the Tawhid and Jihad group, led by a Jordanian militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which has claimed responsibility for a series of recent suicide bombings and shootings, and the beheadings of an American and a South Korean hostage (though on Tuesday it released three Turkish hostages it had threatened to kill).
Al-Qa'ida, now merged with Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi's network, is exploiting the situation in Iraq to attract new recruits and donors and to maintain its leadership role.
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