Undated handout released April 28, 2009, shows Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. Iraq has confirmed the identity of a suspect captured last week as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, believed to be head of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al Qaeda-linked group, the Defence Ministry said on Monday. Reuters Pictures 7 months ago

Undated handout released April 28, 2009, shows Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. Iraq has confirmed the identity of a suspect captured last week as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, believed to be head of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al Qaeda-linked group, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.

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  1. Iraqi Abu Omar threads beads at his stall as his client chats with another man while he assembles a string of prayer beads known in Arabic as Masbaha in Baghdad, on November 11, 2009. The beads that Abu Omar threads are imported from China and India and the more valuable amber comes from Russia. Muslims recite the 99 names of Allah as they roll their beads.

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  1. Iraqi Abu Omar threads beads at his stall as his client chats with another man while he assembles a string of prayer beads known in Arabic as Masbaha in Baghdad, on November 11, 2009. The beads that Abu Omar threads are imported from China and India and the more valuable amber comes from Russia. Muslims recite the 99 names of Allah as they roll their beads.
  2. Iraqi Abu Omar threads beads at his stall where he makes and repairs prayer beads known in Arabic as Masbaha in Baghdad, on November 11, 2009. The beads that Abu Omar threads are imported from China and India and the more valuable amber comes from Russia. Muslims recite the 99 names of Allah as they roll their beads.
  3. Abu Omar shows off a basket full of beads to a client (unseen) at his stall where he makes and repairs prayer beads in Baghdad, on November 11, 2009. The beads that Abu Omar threads are imported from China and India and the more valuable amber comes from Russia. Muslims recite the 99 names of Allah as they roll their beads.
  4. Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks during the trial of Abu Omar in Milan November 4, 2009. An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. Government.
  5. Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks during the trial of Abu Omar in Milan November 4, 2009. An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. Government.
  6. Judge Oscar Magi reads the sentence during the trial of Abu Omar in Milan November 4, 2009. An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. Government.
  7. Italian judge Oscar Maggi reads on November 4, 2009 at a Milan's court, the verdict at the end of the trial of 26 US secret agents in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street. The judge convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. Placard on wall reads: 'Law is the same for everyone'.
  8. Italian judge Oscar Maggi reads on November 4, 2009 at a Milan's court, the verdict at the end of the trial of 26 US secret agents in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect, Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, from a Milan street. The judge convicted 23 US and two Italian secret agents for the CIA's kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. Placard on wall reads: 'Law is the same for everyone'.
  9. Siti Rahma, wife of slain regional al-Qaida commander Noordin Top, in a black veil, is seen in Pontian, southern Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Tearful relatives of slain regional al-Qaida commander Noordin Top buried him in a traditional Muslim funeral at his boyhood village Friday, two weeks after Indonesian security forces killed him in a shootout.
  10. Relatives and villagers carry the coffin of slain regional al-Qaida commander Noordin Top for a burial at a cemetery in Pontian, southern Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Tearful relatives of slain regional al-Qaida commander Noordin Top buried him in a traditional Muslim funeral at his boyhood village Friday, two weeks after Indonesian security forces killed him in a shootout.
  11. J. Michael Dowling, lawyer for suspected al-Qaida terrorist Najibullah Zazi, gestures during a press briefing after his client's appearance in Brooklyn Federal Court, New York, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009.
  12. In this courtroom sketch of suspected al-Qaida terrorist Najibullah Zazi is shown as he appears in Brooklyn Federal Court, New York, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009.
  13. J. Michael Dowling, lawyer for suspected al-Qaida terrorist Najibullah Zazi, speaks during a a press briefing after his client's appearance in Brooklyn Federal Court, New York, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009.
  14. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden addresses a news conference in Afghanistan in this May 26, 1998 file photo. Bin Laden urged European nations in an new audio tape aired on September 25, 2009 to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.
  15. Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, speaks during a new 106-minute long video released Tuesday Sept. 22, 2009 predicting President Barack Obama's downfall at the hands of the Muslim world."America has come in a new, hypocritical face. Smiling at us, but stabbing us with the same dagger that Bush used," said Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri in the message.
  16. American-born al Qaeda militant Adam Gadahn appears in a still image from a video released September 22, 2009 by al-Qaeda's as-Sahab entitled, "The West ... and the Dark Tunnel" in this handout image provided by IntelCenter.

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