Chapter 10 – Enemies

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Images: (click to enlarge)

Local insurgents in the Al-Qaim area (AP photo)
Ahmad Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalaylah, born in 1966, was raised in the hard-scrabble industrial city of Zarqa, Jordan.
Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, with his trademark short-barreled AKS by his side.
Zarqawi, emulating Bin Laden by sporting the same type of AKS.
The video was titled, “Sheik Abu Musab Zarqawi slaughters an American infidel with his hands and promises Bush more”
(Wikipedia photo)
Iraqi workers clean debris near a large pool of blood at the scene of a suicide attack in the city of Hilla, February 28, 2005.

Maps: (click to enlarge)

Footnotes:

1. Jimmy Rooks, interview with author
2. Brandon Puhlman, interview with author
3. A separate category, Former Regime Loyalists (FRL) was also used to describe notable former regime leaders and generals, but had largely fallen out of use by 2005  
4. Study of the Insurgency in Anbar, Ch 5, pg 6
5. Ibid., Ch 3, pg 43
6. Ibid., Ch 5, pg 6
7. Ibid., Ch 3, pg 46
8. “The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi”, The Atlantic, 8jun06
9. February 2004 CPA translation   
10. “Zarqawi’s Pledge of Allegiance to Al-Qaeda”, Jamestown Foundation, Terrorism Monitor, 16dec04. 
11. “How Zarqawi Fits into Bin Laden’s World Front”,  Jamestown Foundation, Terrorism Monitor, 28apr05

3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines and the fight for Al-Qaim, Iraq

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