Jordan’s military court today sentenced al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and two other militants to death for a failed suicide bombing on the Jordanian-Iraqi border a year ago.

Iraqi security forces questioned terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Fallujah area last year but released him because they didn’t realise who he was, the deputy interior minister said today.

Iraqi security forces reportedly caught terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but released him because they did not realise who he was.

More than 370 members of the clan of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi joined his family today in publishing a full-page letter in Jordan’s newspapers that disowns the most notorious terrorist in Iraq.

FAMILY members of Jordanian-born al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have renounced the terror leader, telling King Abdullah II that they would “sever links with him until doomsday”.

Family members of Jordanian-born al Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have renounced the terror leader, telling King Abdullah II today that they would “sever links with him until doomsday".

Thousands of Jordanians rallied in the capital and other cities shouting “Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!” a day after three deadly hotel bombings that killed at least 59 people.

HUNDREDS of angry Jordanians rallied last night outside one of three hotels attacked by suicide bombers, shouting “Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!”.

Jordan’s military court has ordered the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, and another terrorist suspect to surrender within 10 days.

Jordan’s military court today sentenced wanted terror leader Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi to 15 years jail and a detained associate to three years behind bars for the 2003 Jordanian Embassy attack in Baghdad that killed 18 people.

Osama bin Laden is enlisting his top operative in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to plan potential attacks on the United States, US intelligence indicates.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist leader allegedly claiming responsibility for the graphic beheading of a US civilian in Iraq, is adopting an increasingly public and influential role among Islamic militants, US officials and terrorism experts say.

JORDAN’S military court convicted eight Muslim militants yesterday and sentenced them to death for the 2002 killing of a US aid official in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida.

Jordan’s military court convicted eight Muslim militants and sentenced them to death for the 2002 killing of a US aid official in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida.

A Jordanian accused of helping plot terror attacks in Germany formed a “close, trusting relationship” in Afghanistan with a man linked by the US to al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, prosecutors said today.

A top al-Qaida terrorist has fled from Iraq to neighbouring Iran where he is being protected by the government along with several other senior figures from the network, it was reported today.

YASSER ARAFAT told Osama bin Laden yesterdayto stop claiming he was fighting for the Palestinians and dismissed Israeli charges that al-Qaida is active in the Palestinian territories.

Witnesses saw a man with his face covered outside the home of a US diplomat at about the time he was shot dead, Jordanian officials said today as they probed a claim of responsibility for the assassination.

AN assassin pumped eight shots into an American diplomat outside his Amman home yesterday in the first known killing of a Western envoy in the Jordanian capital.

Unidentified gunmen killed an American diplomat today as he left for work in the Jordanian capital Amman, officials said.