March 12, 2008
Jordon Releases Former Mentor to AlQaeda's Dead al-Zarqawi
Is Jordon trying to compete with Yemen for stupidity? Sure, release him so he can start back up with alQaeda and bomb more hotels. Gawd.
AMMAN, Jordan
Jordan freed a former mentor to a late al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Wednesday after several years in police custody without a trial, a judiciary official said.
Isam Mohammed Taher al-Barqawi, also known as Sheik Abu-Mohammed al-Maqdisi, was arrested in 2005 and international human rights groups had called on authorities to release him or put him on trial.He had shared a cell block between 1995 and 1999 with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who led al-Qaeda in Iraq before being killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2006.
Al-Maqdisi, a native of the West Bank town of Nablus, is said to have taught radical Islamic ideology to the future al-Qaeda commander. But hours before his arrest in 2005, he preached restraint to Iraq's insurgents, saying that he preferred a reduction in suicide attacks.
The call was rebuked by al-Zarqawi, who has warned in a statement posted on an Islamic Web site, that his mentor's comments could split Islamic fighters
A "reduction" of suicide attacks doesn't mean the same thing as "none".
He was released for "humanitarian and health" purposes the article states. I think the "international human rights group" need to stop sticking their noses into terrorism related cases.
