UPI Almanac for Sunday, June 8, 2008.

WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- The bounty on al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri is down from $5 million to $100,000 because he is no longer an effective leader, U.S. officials said.

BAGHDAD, May 9 (UPI) -- Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq, hasn't been captured despite reports to that effect, a senior U.S. military official said Friday.

WASHINGTON, March 18 (UPI) -- Jordanian authorities have quietly released one of the ideological leaders of global terrorism, the alleged spiritual mentor of al-Qaida in Iraq's founder.

WASHINGTON, March 4 (UPI) -- Ricin has been a byword for terrorism in the mass media since Colin Powell used it to link Iraq-based terrorists to groups plotting attacks in Europe as part of the U.S. case for invasion in 2003. But the ricin in that incident turned out to be no more real than Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, and experts say that the toxin is so difficult to purify it is unlikely to ever be used successfully in a terror attack.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- One of the most important al-Qaida linked Somali jihadist groups has severed its ties to the Islamic Courts Union, the coalition that used to rule the country.

The Kurdish Al Taakhi Newspaper carried an editorial on Monday commenting that terrorism "showed its teeth" in Iraq more than other places.

CAMP RIPPER, Iraq, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- As insurgent and terrorist violence in western Anbar province continues to fall, a small band of U.S. Marines at Al Asad Air Base are increasingly drawing their beads on bands of oil smugglers who nip across the border to Syria to sell purloined oil or who hawk refined fuel from Syria on the Iraqi black market.

Shebbab Al Iraq newspaper reported Monday that the U.S. Army in Baghdad announced the killing of 20 insurgents after they fired a missile and shot at a U.S. helicopter in a neighborhood 16 miles northwest of Baghdad.