(Times-UK) Richard Beeston - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most feared commander in the Iraqi insurgency, may have been forced to surrender his leadership by rival groups, angered by his bloody tactics and the interference of foreign fighters in Iraq. According to Huthayfah Azzam, the son of Abdullah Azzam, al-Zarqawi's former mentor, Zarqawi was stripped of his political duties at a meeting two weeks ago. "The Iraqi resistance high command asked al-Zarqawi to give up his political role and replaced him with an Iraqi because of several mistakes," Azzam told al-Arabiya television. "Al-Zarqawi's role has been limited to military action," he said. The al-Qaeda leader has a $25 million American bounty on his head.
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