 Jordanian authorities have detained two close relatives of fugitive Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is near the top of Washington's list of most-wanted terrorists, Zarqawi's relatives said Thursday. Zarqawi's sister said her husband Saleh El Hami (nicknamed Abu Qudamah) and her nephew Mohammad Haraahsheh were detained two days ago from their houses in Zarqa. Government spokesperson Asma Khader said "no details were available as to the motives behind the detention."
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Abu Qudamah, an extremist cleric who met Zarqawi in Afghanistan in the early 1990's, has been detained many times over the past years. One of Zarqawi's nephews, Omar, 19, is now serving a three-year term for harbouring "provocative" ideas and plotting to carry out terrorist attacks. |