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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.
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.



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