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"Zarqawi Aid" Still Least Desired/Most Likely to get you captured occupation in MidEast
By Charlie
May 23 (Bloomberg) -- An aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, today appeared on state-run Jordanian television and confessed to involvement in the killings of Iraqis and other Arabs.
Got that -our allies, subject to the will of the "Arab Street" are (and have been) rounding up AQ operatives. They just made a BIG catch in Jordan, and got him to confess (OP-FOR is coordinating with Cuba and China on the UN Human Rights Commission to ensure this guy's rights were not violated to get a confession. We'll let you know when we get this checked out.)
Why are the Arab autocracies increasingly (and effectively) stepping up their counter-terror campaigns? Perhaps because they now realize it is in their best interest to do so. Seeking to cut off AQ at the pass, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia have been using their pervasive and effective intelligence and state security service to round up AQ and other Islamic extremist groups/terrorists lately. Why, play to US interests? Because they know that their regime’s stability is linked to the stability of the region. If Islamic radicals gain a foothold in Iraq (or anywhere else) the local extremist forces will become bolstered and attempt to exert similar influence on their home government. Jordan, and the other nations, know this. So the only option they can take is to use their advantages against the enemy’s disadvantages. Their advantages are a well established intelligence apparatus, and the ability to leverage human intelligence and apply it to direct action operations. And it worked. More:
Al-Karbouli described how last year he kidnapped and killed a Jordanian driver in Iraq, and how he seized two Moroccans who worked at their country's embassy there, as well as how he killed Iraqis.Al-Zarqawi's group has carried out some of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq since the ousting of Saddam Hussein in 2003, including beheadings of non-Iraqi hostages. The U.S. has a $25 million bounty on al-Zarqawi, whose organization also acknowledged responsibility for suicide bombings last November at three hotels in Jordan's capital, Amman, that killed at least 57 people.
Jordanian security forces in March foiled a suicide bomb attack in the country and arrested three suspected al-Qaeda terrorists, two of them Iraqi nationals and the third a Libyan citizen.
Jordan's King Abdullah II ordered security forces to undertake a war on terrorism in the aftermath of the Amman hotel bombings. Jordanian courts have sentenced al-Zarqawi to death in his absence for an attempted bomb attack on the border with Iraq and for the murder of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman in 2002.
Anybody still arguing that these terrorists are "nationalist freedom fighters?"
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Appreciate your efforts with Cuba and the Chi-Comms, but didn't you get the memo that we have reformed and come up with a new name?
Human Rights Council - please change letterhead where appropriate.