|
Jordan arrests mentor of Qaeda's Zarqawi - Jazeera
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-06 08:36
Jordanian authorities have arrested the spiritual mentor of Iraq's al Qaeda
leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Jazeera television said.
The Arabic channel quoted its correspondent as saying authorities arrested
Issam Barqawi, better known as Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi, as the television
was broadcasting an interview with him.
The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Iraq,
Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is seen in this recent photograph
handed out by the Iraqi Interim Government on March 7, 2005. Jordanian
authorities have arrested Issam Barqawi, Zarqawi's spiritual mentor, al
Jazeera television said on July 5, 2005.
[Reuters] | Islamist and security sources have
said the 43-year-old Muslim cleric -- who molded the militant Islamic views of
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- was released on June 28 after a six-month detention at
intelligence headquarters following his acquittal at a trial of Jordanian and
Saudi sympathizers of al Qaeda.
He had been under close surveillance by authorities at his house near Zarqa,
east of the capital, where fellow Jordanian Zarqawi was born.
|
 | | | Space shuttle Discovery launch delayed | | |  | | | Blair plans measures to uproot extremism | | |  | | | Pakistan train crash carnage kills 128 | | |
|
| |
 |
|
|
|
|
Today's
Top News |
|
|
|
Top World
News |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
