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  • Ibrahim "Awwad Ibrahim" Ali al-Badri, also known by the alias "Abu Du'a," was put on the agency's global terrorist list earlier this week and is the senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, the State Department said.

    CNN.com 2011

  • Earlier this year, Joss Whedon posted an impassioned denunciation of the "honor killing" of Du'a Khalil Aswad and Hollywood "torture porn" on the fan-run site Whedonesque. com, ending with a call to action.

    Jennifer Ouellette: A Buffy Fan Gets a Life... Online 2008

  • Du'a Khalil (ph) was Kurdish, but the killing occurred outside Kurdistan.

    CNN Transcript May 17, 2007 2007

  • A top official in northern Iraq's (UNINTELLIGIBLE) province where this occurred last month tells CNN Du'a (ph) had been seen with a Sunni Muslim man.

    CNN Transcript May 17, 2007 2007

  • A top official there tells CNN, Du'a, whose family is Kurdish and belongs to the Yezidi religious sect, had been seen with a Sunni Muslim boy.

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2007 2007

  • This is what happened to Du'a Khalil Aswad, a 17-year-old girl belonging to the Yezidi religious minority in Northern Iraq, who was killed by a group of at least eight men in the presence of a large crowd in the town of Bashika, near the city of Mosul, on April 7, 2007.

    Perverts kill girl for honor 2007

  • KAYE: That didn't help Du'a, now being mourned around the world.

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2007 2007

  • Finally, I want to call attention to some modern Muslim blogs: A Dervish's Du'a' thanks for the link! posts a fascinating Progressive Muslims' Mission Statement . . .

    Philocrites: September 2003 Archives 2003

  • The State Department added Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, also known as Abu Du'a, to its list of specially designated terrorists.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Three days after bin Laden's death, Abu Du'a claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 24 policemen and wounded 72 others, according to the bulletin.

    CNN.com 2011

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