A 56-year-old Kurdish woman told of seeing people sickened and dying during an alleged chemical attack carried out by Saddam Hussein’s forces, as the genocide trial of the ex-president resumed in Baghdad today after nearly a three-week break.

Iraq’s national security adviser today announced the arrest of the second most senior figure in al Qaida in Iraq.

Three politicians who attended the wake of the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq pleaded not guilty to instigating sectarian strife when their trial began in Jordan today.

THE largest Sunni Arab bloc in Iraq’s parliament said yesterday it was suspending its participation in the legislature until a kidnapped colleague was released, dealing a blow to efforts to involve the disaffected minority in the political process.

Terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been buried in an undisclosed location, the US military and Iraqi government officials said today.

Osama bin Laden has praised al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the “lion of holy war” in a new video posted on the internet today.

Osama bin Laden will issue a videotaped message paying tribute to slain al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a message on an Islamic militant website said today.

In a video broadcast tonight, al-Qaida’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri hailed the slain terrorist leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as a soldier, an Islamic cleric and a prince of martyrs.

A bomb struck a Sunni mosque in a town north-east of Baghdad, killing 10 worshippers and wounding 15 in the same town where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq earlier this month.

An al-Qaida-led insurgent group said in a website statement today that it had decided to kill four kidnapped Russian Embassy workers after a deadline for meeting its demands passed.

The new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq killed the two US soldiers abducted last week, an umbrella group for Iraqi insurgents said in a web statement posted today.

HUMAN Rights Watch criticised Jordan’s arrest of four lawmakers who visited the family of slain terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, calling it a violation of freedom of expression.

Insurgents killed more than three dozen people in a series of attacks that foiled stringent security measures around Baghdad after an al-Qaida threat to stage bloody reprisals for the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

US and Iraqi forces killed 104 insurgents in hundreds of raids since last week’s killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and the American death toll in the war in Iraq hit 2,500, the US military said today.

Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi planned to try to destroy the relationship between the United States and its Shiite allies in Iraq and help start a war between America and Iran.

Iraq’s prime minister has set in motion the biggest security crackdown in Baghdad since the US-led invasion, with 75,000 Iraqi and US troops to deploy across the capital from today.

US President George Bush met newly-named Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in a surprise visit to Baghdad today to discuss the next steps in the troubled three-year-old war.

A US military doctor today said al-Qaida terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi died 52 minutes after an airstrike against his safe house north-east of Baghdad.

Encouraged by the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and a new government in Iraq, George Bush is gathering his top military and civilian war advisers today to plan the US role in the country’s future.

The American military flew in two forensic specialists today to examine the body of slain al-Qaida chieftain Abu Musab al-Zarqawi “to see how he actually died” in an effort to reconstruct the last minutes of his life, a US general said.

Two bombs aimed at police patrols exploded today in Baghdad as a series of attacks killed at least 24 people nationwide, while insurgent groups offered condolences for the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and warned they would continue his campaign of violence.

The family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said today they want to bury him in his hometown, but a security official vowed the terror leader who killed Jordanians in a triple hotel bombing would never be interred in Jordan.

The Al-Jazeera satellite channel broadcast today excerpts of a video tape by deputy leader of al Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahri, in which he spoke about Palestinian and Egyptian politics and the situation in Darfur.

Terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still alive when Iraqi police arrived at a site that was bombed by US forces, a top-level spokesman for American military forces said today.

Iraqi prime minister Nouri Maliki imposed a ban on all vehicle traffic today in Baghdad and the volatile Diyala province in an apparent effort to prevent reprisal attacks by suicide car bombers following the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

US President George Bush has hailed the killing of “the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq” but said it would not stop the violence there or bring a speedy withdrawal of US troops.

Biological samples from the bodies of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his associates have been delivered to the FBI crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.

IRAQI police in Baghdad’s Shi’ite slum of Sadr City brandished their guns, firing in the air and chanting to show their elation over the news of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death.

THE killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi deprives Islamic terrorism of one of its most high-profile leaders.

ABU Musab al-Zarqawi rose from the life of a street thug in Jordan to become the symbol of ‘holy war’ in Iraq, masterminding the bloodiest suicide bombings of the insurgency, beheading hostages and helping push Iraq into a spiral of sectarian violence with vicious attacks against Shi’ites.

MEMBERS of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s family were yesterday mourning the death of the notorious terrorist leader killed in Iraq.

INTELLIGENCE officers said they found Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by following his spiritual adviser and deputy, who visited him at a safehouse.

It was a good day for Iraq’s new prime minister. Not only did he announce the death of the country’s most-feared terror leader, he also won approval for new security ministers, the men charged with stopping the violence in Iraq.

Extremists said Abu Musab al-Zarqawi died the death of a true Muslim hero, but other Arabs saw him as a killer who had devastated many families.

World leaders and terrorism experts described the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a blow to al-Qaida, but warned that his network of lieutenants would step up to carry on his campaign of death and destruction in Iraq.

Police in a Shiite slum brandished their guns and fired into the air in celebration today as Iraqis welcomed the announcement that terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last night in a US airstrike.

US and Iraqi intelligence found Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by following his spiritual adviser and deputy, who visited the terror leader at a safehouse, prompting the airstrike that killed both men, the US military said.

October 20, 1966: Born Ahmad Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh in Jordan, part of Bani Hassan Bedouin tribe.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi rose from the life of a street thug in Jordan to become the symbol of “holy war” in Iraq, masterminding the bloodiest suicide bombings of the insurgency, beheading hostages and helping push Iraq into a spiral of sectarian violence with vicious attacks against Shiites.

News of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death trickled in to the US Marines camp outside the battle-scarred city of Fallujah today, bringing the troops a vague sense of satisfaction.

The US military has shown a picture Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with his eyes closed and spots of blood behind him after he was killed by an air strike north of Baghdad.

The father of a US contractor believed to have been beheaded in Iraq by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said today he does not see any good coming from al-Zarqawi’s killing.

US President George Bush said today the death of al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq is “a severe blow” to the al-Qaida terrorist network and a decisive victory in the US-led campaign against terrorism.

Jordan provided the US military with information that helped to track down and kill al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian official said today.