"Involved in Baghdad Attack"
Politics: 17 May 2004, Monday.
There have been talks about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi being involved in plotting the Iraqi leader's assassination.
Zarqawi, believed to be a key al-Qaeda operative in Iraq, is the main suspect for killing Nick Berg. The 26-year-old US contractor was decapitated by his Iraqi captors. An Arab-language website then showed the taped killing.
Just about a week later, a car bomb blast killed Iraq's current Governing Council President. Izzedine Salim died near the coalition headquarters in capital Baghdad.
Sofia Morning News (Bulgaria) May.15.04
Bulgaria being a dutiful Coalition member
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"Disproportionate force"
Israeli helicopters fired six missiles at Palestinian President Yasir Arafat's Fatah movement office in Gaza City.
The Monday attack struck al-Zaitun neighbourhood of Gaza just after midnight local time - the same district in which six Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush a week ago.
It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.
Al Jazeera May.17.04
