Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
a former Al-Qaeda mentor for propagating "terrorist" ideas, only four months after releasing him from jail for recruiting turbans, a judicial source said.
Issam Barqawi, who was once mentor to Iraq's slain Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
after the state prosecutor accused him of "using the Internet to propagate the ideas of the terrorist group Al-Nusra
...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front", the source said.
Barqawi, who is known as Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi, will be held in jug for 15 days as part of the investigation, the source said.
Al-Nusra Front is Al-Qaeda's Syria franchise.
Barqawi was jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in 2011 for recruiting people in Jordan to join the Taliban in Afghanistan as well as "terrorist organizations".
He was also found guilty of collecting funds for "terrorist groups" to carry out acts that would harm Jordan and its ties with other countries.
On June 16 he was released from jail after completing his sentence.
Barqawi was a mentor to Jordanian-born Zarqawi before the two men fell out.
Zarqawi achieved notoriety for a spate of videotaped executions of Western hostages in Iraq before his death in a U.S. air strike northeast of Baghdad in 2006.
The pair met in 1992 and Zarqawi later joined Barqawi's Sunni turban group Jaish Mohammed (Mohammed's Army).
Later they were jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in Jordan for five years for belonging to an outlawed Islamist organization but freed as part of a general amnesty in 1999.
Barqawi was arrested again in Jordan in 2005 after remarks he made to Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
television, but was released in 2008 for "humanitarian reasons" after going on hunger strike.
A relative expressed "surprise" following news of the latest arrest, saying it came as Barqawi had gone to hospital after suffering neck pain.