Posted on 07/05/2005 8:47:41 AM PDT by Wiz
AMMAN -- The former mentor of Iraq's most-wanted man, Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, bitterly criticized the deadly attacks against civilians and other Muslims in Iraq claimed by his one-time protégé.
"I warned in the past against actions which kill dozens of innocents from among the Iraqi people," Abu Mohammed Al Maqdissi, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, told Al Ghad newspaper in an interview on Tuesday, adding that he has "no links" with such acts.
Maqdissi, whose real name is Issam Al Barqawi, was released from Jordanian custody last week, six months after he was acquitted of plotting attacks against the US embassy and other targets due to a lack of evidence.
An Islamist ideologue who heads a Salafist Sunni Muslim conservative movement, the Palestinian-born Maqdissi initially met Zarqawi in Pakistan in 1991.
The pair were arrested in Jordan in 1994 for membership in an outlawed Islamic group, Al Tawhid, jailed and then released as part of a general amnesty in 1999. But during their detention the Jordanian-born Zarqawi became a champion of Maqdissi's teachings about the jihad - a word that both means the struggle to improve oneself in the eyes of God and holy war.
Violence that fails "to differentiate between women and children, civilians, soldiers and American forces" and that targets "Shia mosques, churches and holy places in general" is wrong, Maqdissi told Al Ghad.
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ping!
Jordanian of Palestinian origin? Sorry, but it should be "Arab of Jordanian origin who calls himself a Palestinian".
I knew an actual Palestinian - his birth certificate says "Palestine" on it.
He's Polish, and was born in Palestine in 1947...
bttt
Lot of error going on by the Errorists.
You know Zarqawi is in trouble when even his fellow jihadists start criticizing him!
Butchering people is wrong.
They worship death. They have said as such. It is no surprise they kill indiscrimanatly. The middle east is getting an education on its own. What decades of putting your fingers in your ears and going nah nah nah nah, they are muslims too, they are muslims too will get you.
The mullah who brainwashed the psychopathic killer is just as responsible for every single murder.
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