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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.