Sat, May 28, 2005 - Page 7 News List

Iraq launches a huge offensive

OPERATION THUNDER Tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police will flood the streets of Baghdad in an effort to quash the ongoing lethal attacks by insurgents

AP , BAGHDAD

Some of the insurgents in Haditha are believed loyal to Iraq's most wanted militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose fate has been the subject of intense discussions this week from Baghdad to the Internet to Washington.

The Iraqi interior and defense ministers said Thursday the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has been wounded, confirming several Internet statements making the same claim this week.

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