Posted on 07/05/2005 11:17:12 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Jordanian authorities have arrested the spiritual mentor of Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Jazeera television said.
The Arabic channel quoted its correspondent as saying authorities arrested Issam Barqawi, better known as Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi, as the television was broadcasting an interview with him.
Islamist and security sources have said the 43-year-old Muslim cleric -- who molded the militant Islamic views of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- was released on June 28 after a six-month detention at intelligence headquarters following his acquittal at a trial of Jordanian and Saudi sympathizers of al Qaeda.
He had been under close surveillance by authorities at his house near Zarqa, east of the capital, where fellow Jordanian Zarqawi was born.
Is this a "Senior Lieutenant Mentor" or just a minor mentor?
Still no word on why they arrested him... again...
They should put panties on his head. There is no torture more torturous or humiliating to Muslim men than to have panties on the head.
I know I sound too cruel, but I have no sympathy for Islamofascists.
I hear he was mentor to Zarhari that what I hear so he might be top dog in Islamic cleric in the world
this chap needs to be kicked out of the back of a C-130
somewhere out over the mid Indian Ocean
He was Zarqawi's spiritual mentor in Afghanistan in the late 80s and early 90s.
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