Iraq's two-year insurgency led by Al Qaeda's Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is being funded by supporters of a strict Saudi-based Muslim sect and some foreign countries, the Iraqi president said, without naming the states involved. President Jalal Talabani told Reuters in an interview he believed Zarqawi had nevertheless been weakened and isolated and there was no fear of civil war in Iraq, which has suffered a spate of bombings designed to undermine its new government. The veteran Kurdish leader, sworn in a month ago as the first non-Arab president of an Arab nation, said late on Sunday Zarqawi was backed by extremists across the region. "They are getting aid from Al Qaeda and from some financiers among some extremist Muslim organisations from Wahabi extremists abroad and from countries that I will not name," he said. Talabani, who left Amman en route to an Arab-South American summit in Brazil, said Jordanian-born Zarqawi's capture could be close and the leadership of the group, which has claimed some of the deadliest bombings in Iraq, had been decimated. "I think that Zarqawi appears isolated and hated by Iraqis and I would not rule out his capture any second, but I cannot guess where or when," he said.