HOW ABU MUSAB AZ-ZARQAWI BECAME THE FACE OF TERRORISM IN IRAQ.

The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. “Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response,” one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: “Media operations,” “Special Ops (626)” (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein’s government) and “PSYOP,” the U.S. military term for propaganda work…” (WP. 10 April 2006)The military’s propaganda program, according to the Washington Post, has “largely been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. “strategic communications” in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the “home audience” as one of six major targets of the American side of the war.” (WP, op cit.) “The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. “Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response,” one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: “Media operations,” “Special Ops (626)” (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein’s government) and “PSYOP,” the U.S. military term for propaganda work…” (WP. 10 April 2006)The military’s propaganda program, according to the Washington Post, has “largely been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. “strategic communications” in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the “home audience” as one of six major targets of the American side of the war.” (WP, op cit.)An internal document produced by U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, states that”the Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date.” (WP, op cit).The senior commander entrusted with Pentagon’s PSYOP operation is General Kimmitt who now occupies the position of senior planner at US Central Command (USCENTCOM), responsible for directing operations in Iraq and the Middle East.“In 2003 and 2004, he coordinated public affairs, information operations and psychological operations in Iraq — though he said in an interview the internal briefing must be mistaken because he did not actually run the psychological operations and could not speak for them. Kimmitt said, “There was clearly an information campaign to raise the public awareness of who Zarqawi was, primarily for the Iraqi audience but also with the international audience.”A goal of the campaign was to drive a wedge into the insurgency by emphasizing Zarqawi’s terrorist acts and foreign origin, said officer’s familiar with the program. “Through aggressive Strategic Communications, Abu Musab az-Zarqawi now represents: Terrorism in Iraq/Foreign Fighters in Iraq/Suffering of Iraqi People (Infrastructure Attacks)/Denial of Iraqi Aspirations,” the same briefing asserts……It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the Zarqawi campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be ongoing. U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that included extensive building of offices and residences for troops involved, as well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of leaflets with Zarqawi’s face on them, said the officer speaking on background…The Zarqawi program at the Pentagon was run concurrently with a related operation “led by the Lincoln Group, a U.S. consulting firm, to place pro-U.S. articles in Iraq newspapers, according to the officer familiar with the program who spoke on background.” According to the Washington Post, however, there was no relationship between the Pentagon’s PSYOP program and that run by the Lincoln Group on behalf of the Pentagon. (WP, 10 April 2006)Disinformation and war propaganda are an integral part of military planning. What the Washington Post fails to mention, however, is its own role in sustaining the Zarqawi legend , along with network TV, most of the printed press, and of course CNN and Fox News, not to mention a significant portion of the alternative media. Disinformation regarding the War on terrorism has been fed into the news chain by a limited number of “top feeders”:A relatively few well-connected correspondents provide the “scoops” that get the coverage in the relatively few mainstream news sources – the four TV networks, TIME, Newsweek, CNN – where the parameters of debate are set and the “official reality” is consecrated for the bottom feeders in the news chain. In other countries, this is what is known as propaganda – or, put less politely, psychological warfare. ( Chaim Kupferberg, The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11)“The top U.S. military intelligence officer in Iraq said Abu Musab Zarqawi and his foreign and Iraqi associates have essentially commandeered the insurgency, becoming the dominant opposition force and the greatest immediate threat to U.S. objectives in the country.“I think what you really have here is an insurgency that’s been hijacked by a terrorist campaign,” Army Maj. Gen. Richard Zahner said in an interview. “In part, by Zarqawi becoming the face of this thing, he has certainly gotten the funding, the media and, frankly, has allowed other folks to work along in his draft.” (WP, 25 September 2005)Amid the continuing bloodshed in Iraq, there is evidence of fresh thinking. The change is, ironically, brought about by Abu Musab Zarqawi himself, whose indiscriminate terrorism appears to have succeeded in uniting people there against his global jihad ideology. Since the hotel bombings in Zarqawi’s native Jordan, more and more Sunni Iraqis and Arabs have condemned the terrorist leader’s nightmarish vision for their societies — one that promises further “catastrophic” suicide attacks. (WP, 4 December 2005)Immediate withdrawal from Iraq is not an option the U.S. administration can or should entertain. It would give Abu Musab Zarqawi and his small band of foreign fighters the opportunity to claim victory and to announce that they have successfully defeated a superpower. This would strengthen al Qaeda’s hand across the Middle East and elsewhere, and lead to greater instability throughout the region. (WP, 11 December 2006).

Zarqawi’s legacy the Islamic state has changed its name numerous times since its founding in 1999.It was originally known as Jamāʻat al-Tawḥīd wa-al-Jihād (JTJ), (“The Organization of Monotheism and struggle”), it then became known as, Tanẓīm Qāʻidat al-Jihād fī Bilād al-Rāfidayn (“The Organization of Jihad’s Base in the Country of the Two Rivers”), in 2004 after the group swore allegiance to Osama Bin Laden. During the period described above it was known as Al Qaeda in Iraq. In 2006, it became the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), in 2013 after its Syrian expansion the name became the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL), or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Its latest manifestation materialized after the declaration of a new Khilāfah/Caliphate on June 29^th 2014.
The organization was founded by Abū Mus’ab az-Zarqāwī.Zarqawi was a Palestinian Sunni born in Jordan. Because of the conflicting statements from various intelligence agencies, Zarqawi was made to appear as if he was “immortal”. Zarqawi was a prisoner in Jordan; he was imprisoned for plotting to overthrow the Jordanian government, released in 1999, he made his way into Afghanistan, where he ran a training camp, thereafter he went to Iraq. Zarqawi was reported as dead in Iraq in a bombing raid, in 2003, he was active again; he was supposedly arrested in Fallujah; only to be re-arrested in Baakuba in January 2005.
He was reportedly killed in 2006. The following is from the online magazine Dabiq of the Islamic State : Abū Hamzah al-Muhājir (rahimahullāh) said, “As for you O knights of tawhīd, monks of the night,lions of the jungle, may Allah reward you on behalf of us and the Muslims with every good. For I have seen war and its men, and I testify by Allah, I testify by Allah, that our ummah in the land of the two grand rivers (Iraq) did not skimp on bestowing its best sons and most truthful nobles upon us. For my eyes have not seen anyone like them, nor have I heard of anyone like them except for the first leading group of Muslims (the Sahābah). So I testify that they are the most truthful of people in speech, the most faithful to their promises, the most firm of men, and the strongest in obeying Allah. I do not doubt for a moment – and Allah knows
such – that we are the army that will pass on the banner to the slave of Allah the Mahdī. Ifthe first of us is killed, then the last of us will pass it on to him” [Sayuhzamul-Jam’u Wa Yuwallūnad- Dubur]. As I have indicated many times in this book the Islamic State are fully committed to fighting and dying in an end of days scenario, that knowledge still eludes the western world’s elitist leadership, who only understand graph’s charts and their polls and computer generated data, they believe not in God and therefore will never be able to fathom the mindset of the people in the Islamic State. This book sheds light on not only the secular and cultural but most importantly the spiritual.
THE ISLAMIC STATE FOUNDERS ON SIGNS OF THE HOUR.“Then the Romans will commit treachery by raising the cross and killing a Muslim. This willlead to the continuation of the war between the Muslims and the Romans. They will demandIslam so as to fight them. This enslavement access to those who enslaved some of them orthe former captives themselves who accepted will have taken place either before the signingof the truce or after the treachery, and Allah knows best. These events all lead up to the final,greatest, and bloodiest battle – al-Malhamah al-Kubrā – between the Muslims and the Romansprior to the appearance of the Dajjāl (English translation is the anti-Christ) and the descent of al-Masīh (English translation is the Messiah) . This battle ends the era ofthe Roman Christians, as the Muslims will then advance upon Constantinople and there afterRome, to conquer the two cities and raise the flag of the Khilāfah over them”.Zarqawi, was declared dead; even non-existent by myriad intelligence agencies including America’s, the result was he became a legendary, mythical figure.