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Al-Qaeda disowns al-Karbouli | ||
2006-05-25 | ||
The militant group al Qaeda in Iraq denied that an Iraqi man arrested by Jordan was operating on behalf of the terrorist group, according to a statement posted on an Islamic Web site. "We of al Qaeda in Iraq want to point out that we don't even know the person shown on Jordanian television," the statement said.
The statement said 73 men accused of being aides to al-Zarqawi had been reported captured or killed over the years, and suggested the militant leader could not possibly have that many associates.
The statement's authenticity could not be independently verified. Jordan said al-Karbouly was al Qaeda in Iraq's point man for receiving goods stolen by Iraqi insurgents, to supply terrorist operations and for sale inside and outside Iraq. In the Jordanian broadcast, al-Karbouly admitted to killing a Jordanian truck driver and described working with al Qaeda in Iraq figures to capture two Moroccan embassy employees and two Kurds on Iraq's border with Jordan. He said that after he killed the truck driver, Khalid al-Dessouki, he answered the man's mobile phone and identified himself as "al Qaeda and a member of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group." Al-Karbouly said al-Zarqawi knew details of his operations and that the terrorist network gave him specific instructions about who to target. "I was instructed by al Qaeda leaders to get any Jordanian because Jordanians deal with the Americans and bring goods to them (in Iraq)," he said. | ||
Posted by:Dan Darling |
#1 Mission Impossible |
Posted by: john 2006-05-25 13:23 |