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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 one we know had a mole at the end of his nose! You see a mole? Huh? Huh?"
Jordanian TV aired a confession of a man who identified himself as Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly and said he worked for al Qaeda in Iraq, a group led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "All that has been shown was merely a play written by the Black House gang and performed on TV by their agents in the region," the statement said, referring to the White House and Jordan, a close ally of Washington.

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.
Certainly not anymore, but it does explain the perpetual openings for number 3's.
"For three years, satellite channels and newspapers have frequently reported that an aide to the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was killed or captured... We wonder, as any other wise men would, how many of Sheik al-Zarqawi's aides or deputies have actually been arrested?"

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  

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