A U.S. soldier at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, takes down an older image of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to display what the military said was a photo of him in death. The al-Qaida-linked militant, who led a bloody campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings in Iraq, was killed in a U.S. airstrike on June 8, 2006.
— Khalid Mohammed / AP
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This image, displayed by the U.S. military at a press conference in Baghdad on June 8, 2006, shows the location of al-Zarqawi before F-16 jets dropped two 500-pound bombs on it.
— Ho / US MILITARY
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Iraqi men attend the scene near the town of Hibhib, northwest of Baquoba, following the airstrike that killed al-Zarqawi, on June 8, 2006.
— Mohammed Adnan / AP
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stands with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, top U.S. commander in Iraq General George Casey, and an unidentified interpreter, during a news conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on June 8, 2006 announcing that al-Zarqawi had been killed during an air raid north of Baghdad.
— Pool / X80003
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Red banners with urgent tags appeared on many Arab TV stations as the region's major stations broke into regular programming to announce the death of al-Zarqawi. Lebanese citizens watch the latest news in an electronics shop in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on June 8, 2006.
— Mohammed Zaatari / AP
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Iraqi police officers and an elderly woman fire guns in the Sadr City area of Baghdad on June 8, 2006 to celebrate the news that al-Zarqawi had been killed.
— Karim Kadim / AP
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A poster distributed by the U.S. Army on Feb.12, 2004 shows different images of al-Zarqawi, Iraq’s most wanted man for a string of deadly kidnappings and terrorist attacks. He was killed in an air-raid on June 8, 2006.
— - / AFP
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An image of al-Zarqawi made from a video message posted by the al-Qaida in Iraq leader on the Internet on April 25, 2006. Al-Zarqawi was considered a master Internet propagandist, spreading the call for Islamic extremists to join the “jihad,” or holy war, in Iraq. His group posted gruesome images of beheadings, speeches by al-Zarqawi and recruitment videos.
— INTELCENTER
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An image made from video posted on May 11, 2004 on an Islamic militant Web site affiliated with al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group showing a group of five men wearing headscarves and black ski masks standing over Nick Berg, a U.S contractor who was later killed by the militants.
— APTN
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U.S. President George W. Bush walks from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden to deliver remarks on the death of al-Zarqawi at the White House on June 8, 2006. Bush said that the killing of al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, offers a chance to "turn the tide" in the war, but he urged patience and predicted more violence to come.
— Kevin Lamarque / X00157
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A photo of al-Zarqawi from the late 1980’s taken in the Jordanian city, Al-Zarqa. The image was distributed on an Islamic website on October 21, 2004.