Zarqawi's father-in-law did suicide bombing of Najaf mosque

[Cocoa]

only Newsday has this so far...

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wozarq0208,0,3804840.story?coll=ny-world-big-pix


SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's father-in-law carried out a suicide bombing in the Shia holy city of Najaf that killed a leading Iraqi cleric, according to two senior Kurdish intelligence officials.

The attack in August 2003 killed more than 85 people, including Ayatollah Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim, who led Iraq's largest Shia political party. The bombing was carried out with an explosives-laden ambulance driven by Yassin Jarad, the father of al-Zarqawi's second wife, the Kurdish officials said.

Jarad had slipped into Iraq several weeks before the bombing from the Jordanian town of Zarqa, where al-Zarqawi was born, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. At least a dozen other suicide bombers from al-Zarqawi's hometown have infiltrated Iraq over the past 18 months, the officials said.

Details of the Najaf bombing emerged in recent weeks during interrogations of three top al-Zarqawi associates captured by Iraqi and U.S. forces, the officials said. The involvement of a close al-Zarqawi relative in a major suicide attack highlights the difficulties of capturing Iraq's most wanted man.

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[geek tragedy]

1. I wouldn't be surprised, BUT "Kurdish intelligence officials" sounds too

much like "Iraqi exiles."

[Metrix]

2. I bet the info came from the Mossad

and I'm skeptical.

[Cocoa]

4. anything about Zarqawi

deserves to be taken with a grain of salt.

And father-in-law? The boogeyman has a father-in-law?

[SmokingJacket]

5. Didn't even know he was married.

Mrs Zarqawi? Does she pack his lunch?

[Rockerdem]

3. Unreliable - obviously the product of torture

Pay no attention to this. Too many lies are coming out of their mouths.

[bemildred]

6. Yeah, yeah, this has Emmanuel Goldstein's fingerprints all over it.

:puke: