“Major attacks, killings claimed by Jordanian terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his followers:
Timeline: Major Attacks Claimed by Zarqawi and His Followers

2005:
Dec. 27: Volley of rockets fired from southern Lebanon into Israel.

– Nov. 9: Triple suicide bombing against hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing 60.

– Aug. 19: Rocket attack in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba, killing Jordanian soldier. One Katyusha rocket lands in neighboring Israel – causing no casualties — and another misses a U.S. Navy ship docked at Aqaba.
– May 7: Two explosives-laden cars plow into an American security company convoy in Baghdad, killing at least 22 people — including two Americans.
– Feb. 28: Suicide car bomber strikes crowd of police and Iraqi National Guard recruits in the southern city of Hillah, killing 125 people.

2004:

– Dec. 19: Car bombs tear through funeral procession in Najaf and main bus station in nearby Karbala, killing at least 60 in the Shiite holy cities.

– Oct. 30: Body of hostage Shosei Koda, 24, of Japan, is found decapitated in Baghdad, his body wrapped in an American flag.

– Sept. 30: 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.

– Sept. 16: British engineer Kenneth Bigley, and U.S. engineers Jack Hensley and Eugene “Jack” Armstrong kidnapped in Baghdad. By Oct. 10, 2004, all three men have been confirmed beheaded.

– Sept. 14: Car bomb rips through a busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where Iraqis are waiting to apply for jobs, killing 47.

– Sept. 13: Video purportedly from al-Qaida in Iraq shows Durmus Kumdereli, a Turkish truck driver, being beheaded.

– Aug. 2: Video from followers of al-Zarqawi showing shooting death of hostage Murat Yuce of Turkey.

– June 29: Bulgarian truck drivers Georgi Lazov, 30, and Ivaylo Kepov, 32, are kidnapped. Al-Zarqawi’s followers suspected of decapitating both men.

– June 22: Kidnappers behead South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il; Al-Jazeera television says the killing was carried out by al-Zarqawi’s group.

– June 14: Car bomb attack on a vehicle convoy in Baghdad kills 13, including three General Electric employees.

– May 18: Car bomb assassinates Iraqi Governing Council president Abdel-Zahraa Othman.

– May 11: 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: 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.

2003:

– Aug. 29: Car bomb in Najaf kills more than 85 people, including Ayatollah Mohammad Baqr al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council of the Is-lamic Revolution in Iraq.

– Aug. 19: Truck bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad kills 23, including top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.

2002:

– Oct. 28: Laurence Foley, a diplomat and administrator of U.S. aid programs in Jordan, is gunned down outside his home in Amman”

Gives new meaning to the word “martyr” eh?


Mensa Barbie explains jihad., Freedom Watch has the latest on Michael Berg..ugh.,TMH’s Bacon Bitshas Open posts and thought provoking posts..:), The CrazyRants of SamanthaBurns has Open posts.Plancks Constant has Zarq updates as well.,third world county has Open posts and challenging insights.,Tors Rants has an assortment of issues.,Bloggin Outloud has an array of excellent insights and open posts.

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