- ..Lieutenants/deputies/aides/associates/second-in-commands/etc?
Or, do we just arbitrarily declare that every 100th insurgent we capture
or kill is "a top aide" to Zarqawi?
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- Below is lengthy list of Zarqawi's "top lieutenants"
we've captured, killed, or acknowledged over the last two and a half years.
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- "The No. 2 official in the al-Qaida in Iraq organization.'
- "The top deputy to Jordanian militant Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi."
- Mohammed Salah Sutton, aka Abu Zubair (8/14/05)
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- "A lieutenant of al-Qaida terror boss Abu Musab
al Zarqawi."
- Abu Abd al-Aziz (7/13/05)
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- "Zarqawi's 'main leader in Baghdad'"
- Khalid Suleiman Darwish, aka Abu Alghadiya (6/26/05)
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- A Syrian dentist...was described by Arab media as the
'number two' in Iraq's al Qaeda network and tipped to succeed its leader
Abu Musab Al Zarqawi."
- Mohammed Khalaf Shakar, aka Abu Talha (6/17/05)
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- "A top lieutenant of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."
- Mullah Mahdi, aka Abu Abdul Rahman (6/4/05)
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- "Suspected deputy of terrorist leader Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi"
- Abu Karrar (5/27/05)
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- "The Washington Post quoted a Zarqawi lieutenant
by the nom-de-guerre of Abu Karrar as saying the Jordanian militant was
shot and wounded in fighting with US forces near the western city of Ramadi."
- Mullah Kamel al-Assawadi (5/25/05)
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- "Described as one of al-Zarqawi's top lieutenants."
- Agha Umar (5/25/05)
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- "A top aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi"
- Amar Adnan Muhammad Hamzah al-Zubaydi, aka Abu al-Abbas
(5/9/05)
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- "A high-ranking aide to terrorist leader Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi."
- Ghassan Muhammed Amin Husayn al-Rawi (4/26/05)
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- "A key associate of Iraq's most wanted militant,
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."
- Hamza Ali Ahmed al-Wdimizyar, aka Abu Majid (beginning
of April-05)
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- "Zarqawi associate"
- Salman Aref Abulkadir Khwamurad al-Zardowe, aka Abu Sharif
(beginning of April-05)
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- "Zarqawi associate"
- Taifor Abulsattar Malallah (3/8/05)
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- "One of the 'princes' of Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist
group."
- Talib Mikhlif Arsan Walman al-Dulaymi, aka Abu Qutaybah
(2/25/05)
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- "Iraqi forces have captured a man described as a
trusted aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."
- Mohammed Najm Ibrahim, aka Mohammed Najm (2/25/05)
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- "Zarqawi lieutenant"
- Adel Mujtaba, aka Abu Rim (2/20/05)
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- "A propaganda chief of al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq,
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi"
- Anat Mohammed Hamat al-Kays, aka Abu Alid (1/28/05)
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- "High-level Zarqawi lieutenant"
- Sami Mohammed Ali Said Jaaf, aka Abu Omar Kurdi (1/25/05)
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- "A senior aide to Abu Musab al Zarqawi"
- "The 'most lethal' top lieutenant of Al Qaeda's
leader in Iraq."
- Ismael Jeddan (1/23/05)
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- "The raids also netted a man identified as Ismael
Jeddan, an alleged associate of al-Zarqawi."
- Ali Hamad Ardani Yasin Isawi (1/20/05)
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- "top lieutenant"
- Inad Mohammed Qais (1/20/05)
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- "The deputy prime minister for national security
affairs, Barham Salih, later told a news conference that authorities have
arrested a third Zarqawi lieutenant."
- Salah Salman Idaaj Matar Luhaybi, aka Abu Sayf (12/31/04)
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- "Zarqawi's chief of operations in Baghdad"
- Fadil Hussain Ahmed al-Kurdi, aka Abu Ubaydah al-Kurdi,
aka Ridha (12/30/04)
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- "A senior member of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's network."
- Abdul Aziz Sa'dun Ahmed Hamduni, aka Abu Ahmed (12/22/04)
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- "Zarqawi-linked leader"
- Hassan Ibrahim Farhan Zyda (12/14/04)
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- "An aide to Iraq's most-wanted man, Jordanian Islamist
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi"
- Abu Saeed (11/26/04)
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- "A lieutenant of Iraq's most feared terrorist leader
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi"
- Nameless (10/23/04)
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- The US military has arrested a 'senior leader' in the
network run by Jordanian mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."
- Omar Yusef Juma'a, aka Abu Anas al-Shami (9/25/04)
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- "A senior aide of the Jordanian al Qaeda mastermind,
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi"
- Umar Baziyani (6/4/04)
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- "A top aide of al-Qaeda suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi"
- "His capture removes one of Zarqawi's most valuable
officers from his network."
- Abu Mohammed Hamza (2/24/04)
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- "A key lieutenant to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."
- Hassan Ghul (2/23/04)
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- "The letter was found on al-Zarqawi lieutenant Hassan
Ghul, a Pakistani captured in Iraq."
- The letter in reference was a "17-page letter to
senior al Qaeda leaders written by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
who asked for help starting a Muslim civil war between Iraqi Sunnis and
Shiites."
- Nameless (4/30/03)
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- "An associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured
in the Baghdad area."
- From the looks of it, I think everyone in Iraq is about
two-degrees from Zarqawi.
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- Note also that after many of these announcements, we
were told that it would be a "fatal blow" to the Iraqi insurgency
or that we were oh-so close to capturing Zarqawi himself.
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- Comment: The article above, as well as the next, show
clearly the joke that constitutes US reporting from Iraq. It is propaganda,
pure and simple, designed to hoodwink the US public into thinking that
all is well, that the light is at the end of the tunnel, etc.
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- At some point, the best weapon is ridicule, which is
what the next article does.
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- Headline:
- [top | important | most wanted | close | key] al-Zarqawi
[aide | lieutenant | associate | "cell prince" | figure] [captured
| arrested]
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- Dateline:
- (some date) (some place in Iraq)
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- Body:
- [Iraqi | US | US and Iraqi] forces have [nabbed | captured
| arrested] [a | one | two] [senior | middle] [figure | operations chief
| terrorist operative] of [Jordanian | al-Qaeda-linked | Iraq's most wanted]
terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi.
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- (arabic name), also know as (other arabic name), was
[detained | picked up] on (some date) during an [Iraqi police | US military
| US and Iraqi] [raid | road block | operation] in (some place in Iraq).
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- [spokesman | US General | Iraqi minister] said ["major
catch" | "significant impact" | "big step forward"].
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- Some examples:
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- June 16, 2005 U.S. Says It Has Captured Al Qaeda Leader
for Mosul Area
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- American and Iraqi military forces have captured Al Qaeda's
top leader in the Mosul area of Northern Iraq, the United States military
announced today, a man who associates said always wore a suicide vest and
vowed that he would never be taken alive.
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- The military described the captured insurgent, Muhammad
Khalaf Shakar, also known as Abu Talha, as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's most
trusted operations agent in Iraq.
- ...
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- "He was known as the 'emir of Mosul,' " Lt.
Gen. James T. Conway said of Mr. Shakar during a Pentagon briefing today.
"He is a key lieutenant in Al Qaeda - that has been established. .."
- ...
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- The general said he believed the capture could reduce
the rate of insurgent attacks in Northern Iraq. "In terms of impact,
we think it will be significant," he said. "He has been in charge
of the operation up there for a long time. Mosul, as you know, has become
more and more a focal point for insurgent activities. So we have to think
that the No. 2 won't be as capable as he."
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- June 5, 2005 Militant linked to Zarqawi arrested
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- Iraqi forces have arrested a senior militant leader who
is linked to Jordanian mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and believed responsible
for overseeing an array of deadly attacks in Iraq.
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- A Defence Ministry spokesman says Mullah Mahdi, sometimes
known as Abu Abdul Rahman, was detained after a raid backed by US troops
in the northern city of Mosul on Friday.
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- May 25, 2005 Top aide to al-Zarqawi arrested north of
Baghdad
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- "The Iraqi security forces backed by US troops captured
on Monday Agha Umar, a top aide for Zarqawi, in Baquba, some 60 km northeast
of Baghdad," the official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
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- May 25, 2005 US: al-Zarqawi aides arrested
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- Described as "one of the most wanted people"
in northern Iraq, Mullah Kamel al-Assawadi was arrested after he allegedly
tried to pass an Iraqi checkpoint, a US military statement said on Wednesday.
- ...
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- The Iraqi Defence Ministry also announced the arrest
in Baquba on Tuesday of al-Zarqawi's secretary for Diyala province, Agha
Omar, without providing further details. [see above]
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- May 9, 2005 Gains seen after new arrest of al-Zarqawi
aide
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- Both men arrested are said to be close aides to al-Zarqawi,
whose group is thought to be responsible for most of the suicide bombings
and kidnappings in Iraq.
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- Amar Adnan Muhammad Hamzah al-Zubaydi was arrested in
a Baghdad raid on May 5, the military said, while Ghassan Amin was captured
in western Iraq in late April along with two associates.
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- April 19, 2005 Iraqi Security Forces Capture Two Zarqawi
Associates
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- Iraq Security Forces are detaining two men suspected
of working for al-Qaeda-linked terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi
government said in a statement e- mailed from the capital, Baghdad.
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- Hamza Ali Ahmed al-Widmizyar, known as Abu Majid, and
Salman Aref Abdulkadir Khwamurad al-Zardowe, also called Abu Sharif, were
arrested at the beginning of April during a raid on the city of Ramadi,
the government, said without explaining why the information was only released
today.
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- March 12, 2005 Female Al Qaeda member arrested
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- US troops have detained a female Al Qaeda member headed
by Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, US military officials
said on Friday.
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- She is "someone who was picked up" within the
last 30 days "and is part of the Zarqawi network. She is at Camp Cropper,"
Major General William Brandenburg, the head of US military detention operations
in Iraq, said, adding that she was one of three females in custody.
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- March 9, 2005 A Zarqawi cell "prince", six
others captured in Baquba
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- Iraqi security forces arrested a leader of one of Musaab
Al-Zarqawi's terrorist cells in Baquba, northeast of the Iraqi capital,
Baghdad on Wednesday.
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- An Iraqi police source told reporters that soldiers of
the Iraqi Army captured Taifor Abdulsattar Malallah one of the "princes"
of Musaeb Al-Zaraqi's terrorist group in Baquba.
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- March 1, 2005 Major Arrests Show a Shift in Iraq
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- The Iraqi government has arrested several key figures
in the insurgency in the past two weeks, mainly aides to Zarqawi. One of
the highest-profile captures was of Talib Mikhlif Arsan Walman al-Dulaimi,
also known as Abu Qutaybah, who arranged safe houses and meetings for Zarqawi
and was arrested Feb. 20 along with another man who occasionally served
as Zarqawi's driver. Iraqi officials say Abu Qutaybah's contacts in the
Anbar province of western Iraq, which has been an insurgency hotbed, make
him a major catch.
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- February 26, 2005 Top al-Zarqawi aide captured
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- Iraqi forces have arrested a top lieutenant of Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, another indication that they are close to capturing Iraq's
most wanted man, security officials said Friday.
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- The aide, Taleb Mikhlef al-Dulaimi, was "responsible
for determining who, when and how terrorist leaders would meet with al-Zarqawi,"
the Iraqi government said in a statement. Al-Dulaimi was captured in a
Feb. 20 raid in the town of Anah, about 150 miles west of Baghdad.
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- January 28, 2005 Three Top Zarqawi Lieutenants Arrested
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- Iraq's interim government today announced the capture
of three men it described as top lieutenants of Jordanian terrorist Abu
Musab Zarqawi,..
- ...
- According to Qasim Dawood, the Iraqi government's minister
of state for national security, Zarqawi's chief of operations in Baghdad
was captured Dec. 31 and another top lieutenant was caught west of the
capital on Jan. 20. There was no immediate explanation for the delay in
announcing the captures.
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- A government statement said the Baghdad operations chief,
identified as Salah Salman Idaaj Matar Luhaybi, alias Abu Sayf, had met
Zarqawi four times in December. The other top aide, Ali Hamad Ardani Yasin
Isawi, had 40 meetings with Zarqawi in the past three months, the statement
said.
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- The deputy prime minister for national security affairs,
Barham Salih, later told a news conference that authorities have arrested
a third Zarqawi lieutenant, Inad Mohammed Qais, Reuters news agency reported.
Qais was said to be an al Qaeda member serving as a military adviser. It
was not immediately clear when or how he was seized.
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- January 24, 2005 Zarqawi's 'Most Lethal' Lt. Nabbed
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- Iraqi security forces have arrested the "most lethal"
top lieutenant of al Qaeda's leader in Iraq - a man allegedly behind 75
percent of the car bombings in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion, the
prime minister's office said Monday.
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- Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar
al-Kurdi, was arrested during a Jan. 15 raid in Baghdad, a government statement
said Monday. Two other militants linked to Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's
terror group also have been arrested, authorities announced Monday.
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- January 8, 2005 Zarqawi-linked leader arrested
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- U.S. occupation forces announced the arrest of a key
leader in al-Zarqawi's network in Iraq.
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- The military said in a statement on Saturday that Abdul
Aziz Sa'dun Ahmed Hamduni, also known as Abu Ahmed, was arrested on December
22.
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- The statement also said that Abu Ahmed was coordinating
attacks in the northern city of Mosul, adding that he served as the deputy
of the top leader in the city, identified as Abu Talha.
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- December 15, 2004 Iraq says aide to Zarqawi killed, two
arrested
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- An aide to Iraq's most-wanted man, Jordanian Islamist
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed in Iraq and two others captured, Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi said Tuesday.
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- "I have been told that an individual by the name
of Hassan Ibrahim Farhan Zyda from Zarqawi's group has been killed and
that two of his deputies have been arrested," Allawi told the interim
national assembly.
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- December 12, 2004 US Marines Arrest 2 Zarqawi-linked
Insurgent Leaders
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- The men were arrested on December 8 and 12 during raids
in the city of Ramadi, which is part of the restive al-Anbar province.
The military did not announce the arrests until Saturday.
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- The Marines say Saleh Arugayan Khalil and Bassim Mohammed
Hazem were cell leaders for a local Zarqawi-affiliated terrorist group
called the "Harun terrorist network" that operates in and around
Ramadi.
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- November 25, 2004 Iraq says top Zarqawi aide arrested
in Mosul
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- One of the leaders of the top US foe in Iraq, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi ,was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, national security
adviser Qassem Daoud said Thursday. "We arrested a few days ago Abu
Said, one of the leaders of the Zarqawi network in the city of Mosul,"
Daoud told reporters.
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- He did not elaborate on the identity of the rebel leader
and his rank in Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda linked organisation, but said information
which led to the arrest came partly from local residents.
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- October 23, 2004 Senior Terrorist Arrested in Iraq
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- The U.S. military has arrested a "senior leader"
in the network run by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
(search), along with five others during overnight raids in the insurgent
stronghold of Fallujah (search), officials said Saturday.
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- July 7, 2004 Zarqawi's brother-in-law arrested in Jordan:
family
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- Jordanian authorities have arrested a brother-in-law
of suspected Al Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, following his appearance
in a documentary on Al Jazeera television, according to family sources.
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