A picture of the dead al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, is displayed by the U.S. military during a news conference at
the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad June 8, 2006. [Reuters]
Attacks, kidnappings claimed by al-Zarqawi and his
follower s
Major attacks, killings claimed by
Jordanian terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his
followers:
December 27, 2005: Firing of a volley of
rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel.
November 9, 2005:
Triple suicide bombing against hotels in Amman, Jordan, that killed 60
people.
August 19, 2005: Rocket attack in the Jordanian
port city of Aqaba that killed a Jordanian soldier. In the attack, three
Katyusha rockets were fired, including one that landed in neighboring
Israel - causing no casualties - and another that missed a U.S. Navy ship
docked in Aqaba's port.
May 7, 2005: Two explosives-laden
cars plow into an American security company convoy in Baghdad, killing at least
22 people - including two Americans.
February 28, 2005: A
suicide car bomber strikes a crowd of police and Iraqi National Guard recruits
in the southern city of Hillah, killing 125 people.
December
19, 2004: Car bombs tear through a funeral procession in Najaf and the main
bus station in nearby Karbala, killing at least 60 people in the Shiite Muslim
holy cities.
October 30, 2004: The body of hostage Shosei Koda,
24, of Japan, is found decapitated in Baghdad, his body wrapped in an American
flag.
September 30, 2004: Bombings in Baghdad kill 35 children
and seven adults as U.S. troops hand out candy at the inauguration of a sewage
treatment plant. Al-Zarqawi's group claims responsibility for attacks that day,
but it is unclear if these include the explosions that killed the
children.
September 16, 2004: British engineer Kenneth
Bigley, and U.S. engineers Jack Hensley and Eugene "Jack" Armstrong are
kidnapped in Baghdad. By October 10, 2004, all three men have been confirmed
beheaded.
September 14, 2004: A car bomb rips through a
busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where Iraqis are waiting to apply
for jobs, killing 47.
September 13, 2004: A video
purportedly from al-Qaida in Iraq shows Durmus Kumdereli, a Turkish truck
driver, being beheaded.
August 2, 1004: A video from
followers of al-Zarqawi showing shooting death of hostage Murat Yuce of
Turkey.
June 29, 2004: Georgi Lazov, 30, and Ivaylo Kepov,
32, Bulgarian truck drivers are kidnapped. Al-Zarqawi's followers suspected of
decapitating both men.
June 22, 2004: Kidnappers behead
South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il; Al-Jazeera television says the killing was
carried out by al-Zarqawi's group.
June 14, 2004: A car bomb attack on
a vehicle convoy in Baghdad kills 13 people, including three General Electric
employees.
May 18, 2004: A car bomb assassinates Iraqi
Governing Council president Abdel-Zahraa Othman.
May 11,
2004: Kidnapped American businessman Nicholas Berg is beheaded while being
videotaped, and the voice of the knife-wielder is identified as
al-Zarqawi's.
March 2, 2004: Coordinated blasts from
suicide bombers, mortars and planted explosives strike Shiite Muslim shrines in
Karbala and Baghdad, killing at least 181. U.S. and Iraqi officials link the
attacks to al-Zarqawi.
August 29, 2003: A car bomb in
Najaf kills more than 85 people, including Ayatollah Mohammad Baqr al-Hakim,
leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in
Iraq.
August 19, 2003: A truck bombing of U.N.
headquarters in Baghdad kills 23, including top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de
Mello.
October 28, 2002: Laurence Foley, a diplomat and
administrator of U.S. aid programs in Jordan, is gunned down outside his home in
Amman.
