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November 20, 2005
Jordan: Zarqawi's Family Members Disown Him
Excuse my cynicism, but shouldn't they have done this before he attacked Jordan, you know, when he was murdering Iraquis and Americans? The family is reacting to the heat: Influential family spurns Zarqawi
The Jordanian-born head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been disowned by dozens of his own kinsmen following the triple hotel attack in Amman earlier this month.Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's influential kinsmen took out adverts in three top Jordanian papers saying they had cut all ties with their relative.
Zarqawi has since seemed to try to justify the attacks, which killed dozens of guests at a wedding.
Some 100,000 people marched on Friday in a show of anger at the bombings.
The same day, an audio message purporting to be from Zarqawi once again sought to defend the triple hotel bombings, saying they were not meant to hit a Muslim wedding but US and Israeli intelligence agents.
But in the same message, the speaker warned of further attacks in the country, threatening to kill the country's king, Abdullah II.
And from the "I hope this is true" front, comes a wonderful story, if it pans out: Al-Zarqawi Dead?
Posted by Ruy Diaz at November 20, 2005 8:29 PM
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