Word: jordanian
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...should not be allowed on an airplane. Last month a United Airlines plane from London to Washington was forced to land in Maine because a barred passenger, Yusuf Islam, formerly known as the singer Cat Stevens, was onboard. Last week, in an unpublicized but potentially dangerous incident, a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight was allowed to take off from Amman with a Middle Eastern passenger whose name was on the list. Though U.S. officials discovered while the plane was en route that he was a no-fly passenger, the plane was permitted to land at its destination, Chicago's O'Hare...
Roots Al-Zarqawi is born Ahmed Fadil Nazal al Khalayleh in October 1966. His father is a minor municipal official in the Jordanian town of Zarqa. The family is well respected but poor...
...experiences be omitted in order to avoid al-Zarqawi's wrath. The anecdotes and other details in his account were verified by several sources, including a second al-Qaeda fighter who has spent some time close to al-Zarqawi, commanders of two Iraqi insurgent groups who have met the Jordanian-born terrorist, U.S. counterterrorism officials-- who confirmed some aspects and cast doubt on others--and others who have tracked his career closely. Their accounts provide a rare and intimate portrait of a fugitive who, despite being the most feared man in Iraq, has also remained the most obscure. After three...
...counterterrorism official says al-Zarqawi's attempts at reinvention may stem from tactical considerations that are due to the changing nature of his mission. Having fomented a sectarian conflict in Iraq--which he vowed to do as early as 2004--the Jordanian has been consciously adopting a lower profile. He went out of his way, for example, to set up a council of jihadist groups, under the leadership of Abu Abdallah Rashid al-Baghdadi, a previously unknown figure. The objective, says the official, is to put an Iraqi face on the jihad. "He's savvy enough to realize...
...restatement of enthusiasm for jihad in Iraq; its prime purpose seems to be to reestablish his media presence. And if recent reports that Zarqawi's status has been downsized even by his own coalition of insurgent groups are to be believed, it's not hard to see why the Jordanian fugitive synonymous with mass-casualty bombings of Iraqi Shi'ites and videotaped beheadings of kidnapped Westerners would be looking for some attention...