The death of a man who celebrated indiscriminate killing, and who claimed to have personally beheaded American captive Nicholas Berg, can certainly be seen as unalloyed good news. But if you look at the news of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most sought after terrorist in Iraq, through the prism of domestic politics, here's a cautionary note.
The U.S.-led coalition's No. 1 wanted man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- who conducted a campaign of insurgency bombings, beheadings and killings of Americans and Iraqi civilians -- was killed in a U.S. airstrike.
The wife of Jack Hensley, one of three Westerners kidnapped from their residence in Baghdad on Thursday, made a personal plea to the kidnappers to free the trio, saying they were trying to help the Iraqi people.
Hopes for two Bulgarian hostages in Iraq are fading as the government awaits evidence that a headless body found in the Tigris River is one of its nationals.
The death of a man who celebrated indiscriminate killing, and who claimed to have personally beheaded American captive Nicholas Berg, can certainly be seen as unalloyed good news. But if you look at the news of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most sought after terrorist in Iraq, through the prism of domestic politics, here's a cautionary note.
The U.S.-led coalition's No. 1 wanted man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- who conducted a campaign of insurgency bombings, beheadings and killings of Americans and Iraqi civilians -- was killed in a U.S. airstrike.
The wife of Jack Hensley, one of three Westerners kidnapped from their residence in Baghdad on Thursday, made a personal plea to the kidnappers to free the trio, saying they were trying to help the Iraqi people.
Hopes for two Bulgarian hostages in Iraq are fading as the government awaits evidence that a headless body found in the Tigris River is one of its nationals.
An Iraqi insurgent group has threatened to behead two Bulgarian hostages within 24 hours if the United States does not release all prisoners in Iraq, according to a video aired by Al-Jazeera.
The voice vowing to kill Iraq's prime minister is likely that of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, CIA officials said Thursday after the taped message was analyzed.
There are striking similarities seen on the videotape of the South Korean hostage whose body was found Tuesday in Iraq and the videotaped execution of U.S. hostage Nicholas Berg in May.
South Korean Kim Sun-il begged for his life on a videotape released by his captors: "Please get out of here. I don't want to die. Your life is important but my life is important."
Coalition forces apprehended four people in connection with the beheading of U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg, a military coalition official said Friday, but have since released two of them.
As hundreds of detainees were released from Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, a senior U.S. official Friday confirmed that a previously undisclosed U.S. military interrogation facility at or near Baghdad International Airport does indeed exist.
Two Russians abducted by guerrillas in Iraq earlier this month have been freed on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The Arabic language news network Al Jazeera aired pictures Sunday of what it said were two Russian electrical workers taken hostage last week by an Islamic group in Dura, south of Baghdad.
The Arab world should be showing "a higher level of outrage" over the death of an American businessman whose beheading was posted on an Islamist Web site last week, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.
(CNN) -- President Bush and Sen. John Kerry on Saturday saluted U.S. troops on Armed Forces Day in the Republican and Democratic radio addresses, but their speeches then veered off into different themes.
A U.S. soldier awaiting court-martial in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal is cooperating with investigators and described harsh actions by members of his unit, according to a statement obtained by CNN.
A coalition spokesman said Friday that U.S. military police may have been at the Iraqi facility where Nicholas Berg was held before he was killed, but he insisted that Berg was never in U.S. custody, despite reports to the contrary.
Donald Rumsfeld's "save my job" tour of Baghdad was just the beginning. (With apologies to Beyonce, the secretary's exact words were, "I'm a survivor.")
When Nicholas Berg took an Oklahoma bus to a remote college campus a few years ago, the American recently beheaded by terrorists allowed a man with terrorist connections to use his laptop computer, according to his father.
Slain American Nicholas Berg told a friend that he had been arrested by Iraqi police, detained briefly, and then handed over to U.S. troops who held him in a coalition facility for almost two weeks, the friend said.
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It's hard to see how any news story could displace coverage of the ongoing probe into the Iraqi prisoner abuse, given the searing images released yesterday of American Nicholas Berg just before his beheading and the new pictures the Senate will see today of prisoner abuse.
The United States said Wednesday it would find out who was behind the brutal murder of Nicholas Berg in Iraq, as the remains of the beheaded U.S. civilian were returned to American soil.
An al Qaeda-linked Web site posted video Tuesday of an American man in Iraq speaking briefly before being beheaded. His captors said the United States refused to exchange him for detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison.
All 100 senators will have a three-hour window Wednesday to view additional photographs and video showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners, Sen. John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services Committee has announced.
A Web site linked to al Qaeda showed on Tuesday a tape of a man who identified himself as a U.S. civilian being beheaded, and says Americans should be prepared to receive more coffins.
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