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2015-02-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

[Al Ahram] Jordan on Thursday released from jail a key Salafist figure and former Al-Qaeda mentor nabbed
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
in October for allegedly propagating "terrorist" ideas, a judicial source said.

The decision to free Issam Barqawi, who was once mentor to slain Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was taken by the head of the state security court, a military tribunal.

He ruled against a decision by the state prosecutor to put Barqawi on trial and ordered "his immediate release", the source said.

When Barqawi was arrested, the prosecutor general 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", Al-Qaeda's Syria branch.

The source gave no reasons for the decision, which comes a day after Jordan executed two Iraqi Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in response to the burning alive by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group of one of its fighter pilots.

Jordan said it hanged female myrmidon Sajida al-Rishawi and Al-Qaeda member Ziad al-Karboli -- who were both on death row -- before dawn on Wednesday.

Rishawi, 44, was sentenced to death for her role in triple hotel bombings in Amman in 2005 that killed 60 people, and that were claimed by Jordan-born Zarqawi.

Also known as Mohammed al-Maqdessi, Barqawi's arrest last year came just four months after he had been released from jail after completing a sentence in connection with another case.

He had been tossed in the slammer
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 commit acts that would harm Jordan and its ties with other countries.

Barqawi was a mentor to Zarqawi before the two fell out.

Zarqawi achieved notoriety for a spate of videotaped executions of Western hostages in Iraq before his death in a US air strike in 2006.

The pair met in 1992 and Zarqawi later joined Barqawi's Sunni myrmidon group Jaish Mohammed (Mohammed's Army).

Posted by Fred 2015-02-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
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#1 NOT freed at the end of a rope. Odd.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-02-06 01:40|| 2015-02-06 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Weird, wonder if a sealed ~~train~~ camel was involved.

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-06 06:19|| 2015-02-06 06:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Let it be known that he promised to rat out others in exchange for his release. Oh, and he has a GPS chip in his hippocampus

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-06 09:01|| 2015-02-06 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 A hippocampus? What, goats and camels weren't enough for him? This is just sick..

Posted by SteveS 2015-02-06 09:33|| 2015-02-06 09:33|| Front Page Top

#5 A hippocampus? What, goats and camels weren't enough for him?

It's a service hippocampus, to help him cope. Have some sympathy for the handicapped, SteveS. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2015-02-06 10:21|| 2015-02-06 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Hippocampus Band

Posted by Zenobia Ulomotle9924 2015-02-06 10:33|| 2015-02-06 10:33|| Front Page Top

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