Iraqis vow to fight al Qaeda after sheikh death
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Sunni Arab Iraqis and U.S. forces in Anbar province vowed on Friday to keep fighting al Qaeda after the assassination of a tribal leader who worked with Americans to create one of Iraq's few security success stories.
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Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant warns in a newly released video statement that Iraqi tribal leaders who side with U.S. troops against al Qaeda fighters will face reprisals. "They will lose both their religion and life," Ayman al-Zawahiri says.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has vowed to defeat militia across Iraq who refused to disarm, after calm returned to the holy city of Najaf following a ceasefire between militia and US-backed forces.
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BAGHDAD, July 5 -- The No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda, in a lengthy video released Thursday, called on Muslims in Iraq to unite against their enemies, at a time when rifts have opened between some Sunni insurgent groups in Iraq and the U.S. military has detained individuals it says are senior members of...
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Residents buried the dead as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance in this former insurgent stronghold.
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Four Iraqi Sheikhs tied to the US's anti-Al Qaeda plan were killed Monday in Baghdad.
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The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Iraq vowed militants would avenge a Sunni woman's alleged rape by members of Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated police, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday.
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A Sunni tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb attack on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - The head of a tribal council in Iraq's western province of Anbar said on Sunday that tribesmen had killed 55 al Qaeda fighters in a battle on Saturday, but the U.S. military could not confirm the figures.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The most feared militant group in Iraq, the movement of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden on Sunday, saying it had agreed with al-Qaida over strategy and the need for unity against "the enemies of Islam."   The declaration, which began with a Quranic verse encouraging Muslim unity, said al-Zarqawi considered bin Laden "the best leader for Islam's armies against all infidels and apostates."   It said the two had been in communication eight months ago and "viewpoints were exchanged" before the dialogue was interrupted.   "God soon blessed us with a resumption in communication, and the dignified brothers in al-Qaida understood the strategy of Tawhid and Jihad," the statement said...
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The movement of alleged Iraqi terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden. In an internet statement, al-Zarqawi&#39;s group says it had agreed with al-Qaida over strategy
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NAJAF, Iraq  Followers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Friday they were preparing to hand control of the revered Imam Ali Shrine to top Shiite religious authorities in a ...
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At least one person is killed apparently heeding a top Iraqi cleric's call to march on Najaf, where a stand-off continues.
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Sunni Arab tribesmen vow revenge for the killing of a leader who opposed al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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Al Qaeda militants in Iraq vowed   war on "worshippers of the cross" and protesters burned a papal   effigy on Monday over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam, while   Western churchmen and statesmen tried to calm passions.
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A Sunni Arab tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb attack on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush in the desert region.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces say they have killed 90 al Qaeda fighters around Baghdad during one of the biggest combined offensives against the Sunni Islamist group since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.