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Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly

Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly

Jihad and Tawhid Brigades

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

20060921

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Jordanian court condemns Iraqi al-Qaida suspect to death

2008-06-19

(Xinhua) -- Jordan's State Security Court has decided to uphold the death sentence it delivered over a year ago against an alleged top aide to late al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a court source said Wednesday. The 25-year-old Iraqi suspect, Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly, was convicted guilty for plotting attacks on Jordanians, including killing a truck driver on the highway between Iraq and Jordan, said the source. Wednesday's guilty verdict can be appealed, said the court. The court had sentenced al-Karbouly to death in March 2007 but the verdict was overturned by an appeal court since judges initially rejected his application for mental checks. State doctors later conducted psychiatric tests to al-Karbouly and concluded that he was mentally sound, paving the way for his retrial. Al-Karbouly was arrested by Jordanian intelligence agents in May 2006. He claimed that he was a member of the terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq, which was later denied by the group in a statement. He also admitted that he had abducted two Moroccans with Moroccan embassy in Baghdad and killed a Jordanian trucker but later denied it in the first trial.

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Al-Qaeda's Leader Denies Terror Charges in Jordan

2006-09-21

An alleged Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader yesterday pleaded "innocent" to charges of terrorism before Jordan's State Security Court (SSC), judicial sources said. Ziyad Khalaf Karbouli, an Iraqi, told the tribunal that he was "innocent," the sources said. According to the indictment sheet, Karbouli and 13 others who are still at large are accused of "carrying out acts of terrorism that led to the death of a human being, the possession of explosives for illegal use and belonging to an illegal group." They allegedly formed part of the Jihad and Tawhid Brigades, formerly led by the Jordan-born arch terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a US airstrike inside Iraq on June 7. Karbouli, 23, appeared on the state-run Jordan television shortly after his arrest in May and confessed to have killed a Jordanian truck driver in September last year and abducted two Moroccan diplomats while on their way from Amman to Baghdad. The Jordanian authorities then described Karbouli as a “leading Al-Qaeda operative” who worked as a customs official on the Iraqi side of the border. In a previous hearing the SSC appointed a lawyer for Karbouli after he said he did not have money to recruit and attorney. He also disputed the prosecution’s version that he was captured inside Iraq in a joint operation of the Jordanian army and intelligence on May 10. He instead told the tribunal that he was kidnapped “from Lebanon on May 6.” I killed an 'apostate' “He pleaded innocent to terror charges Wednesday, but lashed out at Jews, Christians and moderate Arabs and confessed to killing a truck driver he called 'a nonbeliever, a Jordanian apostate.'” An al-Qaida suspect jailed in Jordan pleaded innocent to terror charges Wednesday, but lashed out at Jews, Christians and moderate Arabs and confessed to killing a truck driver he called "a nonbeliever, a Jordanian apostate." “Al-Karbouly also shouted insults, accusing moderate Arab leaders of being 'servants' to Jews and US President George W. Bush, who he said have 'declared war on Islam.'” Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly is accused of leading a 14-member terror cell that plotted to stop trucks with Jordanian license plates on roads in Iraq and kill their passengers. His 13 co-defendants - believed to be hiding in Iraq - are being tried in absentia. The 14 men - all Iraqis - are also charged with belonging to al-Qaida in Iraq and with possession of rockets. If convicted, they could face the death penalty. Al-Karbouly also shouted insults out into the courtroom, accusing moderate Arab leaders of being "servants" to Jews and US President George W. Bush, who he said have "declared war on Islam."

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Belmont Club: Ends, Means, and Principles

2006-06-13

Emphasis in boldface added. Talk Left raises the possibility that torture may have been used somewhere in the process of hunting down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Block-quoted handwringing moral equivalence omitted . . . you can probably imagine what they said. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once observed that we were all entitled to our own opinions, but not to our own facts. In fairness its possible, even probable, that the Jordanians were less than gentle with Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly. There is certainly a chance that he was tortured in the very real sense of the word by the Jordanians, though no one knows this to be true. There's also a fairly high probability that, legally speaking, Alan Dershowitz is right that from the point of view of the 'international community' "targeted killings of this kind are unlawful and unjustified." Of course it is also possible that Mr. al-Karbouly, knowing the reputation of the Jordanians sang like a canary rather than find out if their reputed ferocity was real. And it is conceivable that it's actually not illegal to target specific individuals in war. But let's suppose for the sake of argument that the Jordanians did torture al-Karbouly and that targeted assassinations are in fact illegal. What then?

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Karbouly sold out Zarqawi to the Jordanians after capture

2006-06-10

An Iraqi customs agent secretly working with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror cell spilled the beans on the group after he was arrested, Jordanian officials tell ABC News. Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly was arrested by Jordanian intelligence forces last spring. Officials say Karbouly confessed to his role in the terror cell and provided crucial information on the names of Zarqawi commanders and locations of their safe houses. Karbouly also admitted to his role in the kidnappings of two Moroccan embassy employees, four Iraqi National Guards and an Iraqi finance ministry official. In a videotaped confession, Karbouly said he acted on direct orders from Zarqawi. Officials say he will not be eligible for any of the $25 million reward money. As Brian Ross reported this morning, the super-secret Task Force 145 does deserve the recognition for Wednesday's capture. By the time two American jet fighters were called in to drop their 500 pound bombs, General George Casey was certain Zarqawi was in the house, and there was no thought of trying to capture him alive. "Because the only means that could be applied in a timely fashion was the attack by air power and that was decided by General Casey as the right thing to do," U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad told ABC News. While Zarqawi's al Qaeda group has been decimated, it is only one of 14 major insurgent groups operating in Iraq. "Different groups that operate independently and are not controlled by al Zarqawi, they don't need him, and they will continue their attacks in the long term," said Sajjan Gohel, an International Security Expert at the Asia-Pacific Foundation.

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Al-Qaeda disowns al-Karbouli

2006-05-25

The militant group al Qaeda in Iraq denied that an Iraqi man arrested by Jordan was operating on behalf of the terrorist group, according to a statement posted on an Islamic Web site. "We of al Qaeda in Iraq want to point out that we don't even know the person shown on Jordanian television," the statement said. "The one we know had a mole at the end of his nose! You see a mole? Huh? Huh?" Jordanian TV aired a confession of a man who identified himself as Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly and said he worked for al Qaeda in Iraq, a group led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "All that has been shown was merely a play written by the Black House gang and performed on TV by their agents in the region," the statement said, referring to the White House and Jordan, a close ally of Washington. The statement said 73 men accused of being aides to al-Zarqawi had been reported captured or killed over the years, and suggested the militant leader could not possibly have that many associates. Certainly not anymore, but it does explain the perpetual openings for number 3's. "For three years, satellite channels and newspapers have frequently reported that an aide to the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was killed or captured... We wonder, as any other wise men would, how many of Sheik al-Zarqawi's aides or deputies have actually been arrested?" The statement's authenticity could not be independently verified. Jordan said al-Karbouly was al Qaeda in Iraq's point man for receiving goods stolen by Iraqi insurgents, to supply terrorist operations and for sale inside and outside Iraq. In the Jordanian broadcast, al-Karbouly admitted to killing a Jordanian truck driver and described working with al Qaeda in Iraq figures to capture two Moroccan embassy employees and two Kurds on Iraq's border with Jordan. He said that after he killed the truck driver, Khalid al-Dessouki, he answered the man's mobile phone and identified himself as "al Qaeda and a member of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group." Al-Karbouly said al-Zarqawi knew details of his operations and that the terrorist network gave him specific instructions about who to target. "I was instructed by al Qaeda leaders to get any Jordanian because Jordanians deal with the Americans and bring goods to them (in Iraq)," he said.

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