.Alleged al-Qaeda man confesses to killing Arabs in Iraq
Amman - A man presented by Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) as a leading al-Qaeda member operating in Iraq confessed on state-run television Tuesday to killing a Jordanian driver and two Moroccan diplomats.
The suspect identified himself as Ziyad Khalaf al-Karbouli and said he was one of the followers of the Jordanian, Abu Mussab al- Zarqawi, long identified as top al-Qaeda leader in Iraq.
The GID said that al-Karbouli, who is in his mid-20s, was 'lured and arrested outside Iraq in a quality operation.'
Television footage showed hooded GID members flanking al-Karbouli in a sting operation. Official sources said that intelligence officers lured Karbouli into Queen Alia International airport, 35 miles south of Amman, where they arrested him.
They claimed that al-Karbouli had committed a string of armed thefts and attacks against Jordanian trucks and killed scores of Jordanian and Arab citizens.
Dozens of Jordanians, including two drivers of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, have been kidnapped over the past two years on the 900-kilometre highway between Baghdad and the Jordanian border.
In his televised statement, al-Karbouli, who said he was also known by the nom de guerre 'Abu Hutheifa', said he had himself fired two bullets into the head of handcuffed Jordanian driver Khalid Dosouki on the orders of another leading al-Qaeda operative, Younus Ramlawi, codenamed Abu Azzam.
Dosouki was kidnapped in September 2005 after crossing the Iraqi- Jordanian border driving a truck loaded with goods.
Al-Karbouli, who worked as a customs clearance employee at the Trebele post on the Iraqi side of the border, said that Dosouki was killed against the backdrop of Jordan's 'cooperation with the Americans and supplying the Americans with goods.'
He also admitted having kidnapped two Moroccan diplomats who were on their way, along with two Iraqi Kurds, from Amman to Baghdad last October 20.
'The two Moroccan diplomats were killed later, but the two Iraqi Kurds were freed,' he said.
Al-Karbouli said that he also participated in the abduction of a senior Iraqi Finance Ministry official, but he did not identify the Iraqi official in question.
Jordan television said that al-Karbouli would be presented shortly to the State Security Court for trial.
His capture is believed to be a result of an agreement signed last year between Jordan and Iraq to cooperate on cross-border anti- terror operations.
Iraq's al-Qaeda branch, headed by Zarqawi, calls itself the Monotheism Brigades in Iraq. It has claimed responsibility for the November 9, 2005 triple hotel bombings in Amman that killed 60 people.
Zarqawi's faction has also claimed responsibility for an August 19 rocket attack on a US ship docking at the Red Sea port of Aqaba.
M&C
Ouch!! that must have hurt...
The suspect identified himself as Ziyad Khalaf al-Karbouli and said he was one of the followers of the Jordanian, Abu Mussab al- Zarqawi, long identified as top al-Qaeda leader in Iraq.
The GID said that al-Karbouli, who is in his mid-20s, was 'lured and arrested outside Iraq in a quality operation.'
Television footage showed hooded GID members flanking al-Karbouli in a sting operation. Official sources said that intelligence officers lured Karbouli into Queen Alia International airport, 35 miles south of Amman, where they arrested him.
They claimed that al-Karbouli had committed a string of armed thefts and attacks against Jordanian trucks and killed scores of Jordanian and Arab citizens.
Dozens of Jordanians, including two drivers of the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, have been kidnapped over the past two years on the 900-kilometre highway between Baghdad and the Jordanian border.
In his televised statement, al-Karbouli, who said he was also known by the nom de guerre 'Abu Hutheifa', said he had himself fired two bullets into the head of handcuffed Jordanian driver Khalid Dosouki on the orders of another leading al-Qaeda operative, Younus Ramlawi, codenamed Abu Azzam.
Dosouki was kidnapped in September 2005 after crossing the Iraqi- Jordanian border driving a truck loaded with goods.
Al-Karbouli, who worked as a customs clearance employee at the Trebele post on the Iraqi side of the border, said that Dosouki was killed against the backdrop of Jordan's 'cooperation with the Americans and supplying the Americans with goods.'
He also admitted having kidnapped two Moroccan diplomats who were on their way, along with two Iraqi Kurds, from Amman to Baghdad last October 20.
'The two Moroccan diplomats were killed later, but the two Iraqi Kurds were freed,' he said.
Al-Karbouli said that he also participated in the abduction of a senior Iraqi Finance Ministry official, but he did not identify the Iraqi official in question.
Jordan television said that al-Karbouli would be presented shortly to the State Security Court for trial.
His capture is believed to be a result of an agreement signed last year between Jordan and Iraq to cooperate on cross-border anti- terror operations.
Iraq's al-Qaeda branch, headed by Zarqawi, calls itself the Monotheism Brigades in Iraq. It has claimed responsibility for the November 9, 2005 triple hotel bombings in Amman that killed 60 people.
Zarqawi's faction has also claimed responsibility for an August 19 rocket attack on a US ship docking at the Red Sea port of Aqaba.
M&C
Ouch!! that must have hurt...
posted by madtom at 4:05 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home