Al Qaeda in Iraq

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq, promoted Sami al Daini to lead the group in Diyala province. Daini is the brother-in-law of slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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