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Originally Posted by spence
So what this indicates is that the "terror mastermind" in Iraq isn't even that good of a terrorist?
-spence
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Looks horribly faked IMO.
The son of a native Jordanian family (al-Khalayleh of the Bani-Hassan tribe), Zarqawi grew up in the Jordanian town of Zarqa amidst poverty and squalor. At the age of 17, he dropped out of school. According to vague Jordanian intelligence reports, Zarqawi was jailed briefly in the 1980s. Subsequently, he was active as a militant in Afghanistan, Jordan, Iraq and elsewhere.
In 1989, Zarqawi traveled to Afghanistan to join the insurgency against the Soviet invasion, but the Soviets were already leaving by the time he arrived. It is thought that he met and befriended Osama bin Laden while there. Instead, he became a reporter for an Islamist newsletter. There are reports that in the mid-1990s, Zarqawi travelled to Europe and started the al-Tawhid militant organization, a group dedicated to installing an Islamic regime in Jordan.
You just need a mind to lead, not the ability to shoot a gun.