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An associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured in the Baghdad area, a defense official confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday.
Zarqawi and his group have been linked to Al Qaeda by the U.S. and was believed to have traveled to Iraq in May and June of 2002 for medical treatment, following the collapse of Al Qaeda operations in Afghanistan.
Administration sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he had his leg amputated.
Zarqawi ran a training camp in Afghanistan for poisons, and he has been linked to efforts in northern Iraq and Europe to produce and employ the biotoxin ricin.
The United States accuses Zarqawi, a Jordanian, of having been the mastermind behind the assassination of American diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman last October.
Before the military action in Iraq began, Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that Zarqawi's activities were evidence of ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq. Powell also said that Zarqawi's Al Qaeda-linked group was operating inside Baghdad.
In February Powell testified before the U.N. Security Council that as Zarqawi was harbored in Baghdad, several of his underlings set up operations in the Iraqi capital to help shift money, supplies and personnel around the coutnry.
Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations before the war, Mohamed Aldouri, denied all of Powell's accusations.
Powell charged that after Al Qaeda and Taliban forces were defeated by U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Zarqawi founded the camp in northern Iraq to train terrorists in the use of poisons and explosives.
Powell also said in his testimony before the U.N. that the U.S., through an intermediary, supplied Baghdad with enough information to shut Zarqawi's operation down multiple times -- but "Zarqawi still remains at large to come and go."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85514,00.html
Zarqawi and his group have been linked to Al Qaeda by the U.S. and was believed to have traveled to Iraq in May and June of 2002 for medical treatment, following the collapse of Al Qaeda operations in Afghanistan.
Administration sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he had his leg amputated.
Zarqawi ran a training camp in Afghanistan for poisons, and he has been linked to efforts in northern Iraq and Europe to produce and employ the biotoxin ricin.
The United States accuses Zarqawi, a Jordanian, of having been the mastermind behind the assassination of American diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman last October.
Before the military action in Iraq began, Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that Zarqawi's activities were evidence of ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq. Powell also said that Zarqawi's Al Qaeda-linked group was operating inside Baghdad.
In February Powell testified before the U.N. Security Council that as Zarqawi was harbored in Baghdad, several of his underlings set up operations in the Iraqi capital to help shift money, supplies and personnel around the coutnry.
Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations before the war, Mohamed Aldouri, denied all of Powell's accusations.
Powell charged that after Al Qaeda and Taliban forces were defeated by U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Zarqawi founded the camp in northern Iraq to train terrorists in the use of poisons and explosives.
Powell also said in his testimony before the U.N. that the U.S., through an intermediary, supplied Baghdad with enough information to shut Zarqawi's operation down multiple times -- but "Zarqawi still remains at large to come and go."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85514,00.html