Jordan provided information that helped lead US to Al-Zarqawi

Jordan provided the US military with information that helped to track down and kill al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian official said today.

Some of the information came from Jordan’s sources inside Iraq and led the US military to the area of Baqouba, the region north-east of Baghdad where Iraq’s prime minister Nouri Maliki said al-Zarqawi was killed in an airstrike last night, the official said.