Note to nwctwx -- adding to those Zarqawi links I posted to you.
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http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004463.html
July 08, 2005
About the release and re-arrest of Al Maqdisi
Jordan: Freed Cleric In Contact With Al-Zarqawi:
Amman, 7 July (AKI) - The re-arrest by the Jordanian authorities of the Jihadi ideologue, Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi - just a few days after he was released - is because of a telephone call he made to his close friend, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an Arabic daily reports. London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on Thursday cited Salafite Jihadist sources in Jordan who said: "It appears that as soon as al-Maqdisi got home he spoke with al-Zarqawi himself or his closest aide by phone."
Jordan arrests al-Zarqawi's spiritual mentor:
Jul. 6, 2005 - Jordanian police arrested the spiritual mentor of the leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq militant group on Tuesday as he was being interviewed on Al-Jazeera television, his first public appearance since his release last week, the Arab satellite channel said.
Isam al-Barqawi, also known as Sheik Abu-Mohammed al-Maqdisi, had just been freed from prison on Tuesday. Al-Jazeera said he was detained during the interview with its correspondent in Jordan, but gave no details.
Jordanian officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
Al-Barqawi is said to have taught Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in radical Islamic ideology while they shared a cell-block for four years between 1995 and 1999. Both were freed in an amnesty, and Al-Zarqawi later went to Afghanistan, then to Iraq, where his followers have waged a campaign of car bombings, attacks and kidnappings.
Posted by aaron at July 08, 2005 10:08 AM