Al-Zarqawi linked to past attacks

JORDAN is the homeland of the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and has previously arrested scores of Islamic militants for plotting to carry out attacks in the moderate Arab kingdom.

Al-Zarqawi linked to past attacks
Thu, 10 Nov, 2005 - 00:00

US officials believe al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden’s operations chief Abu Zubaydah were chief organisers of a foiled plot to bomb the Radisson SAS around the millennium.

Abu Zubaydah was captured in March 2002 in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in a raid by the CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities. Al-Zarqawi remains at large.

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