Wednesday, November 2. 2005
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Australian Fugitive Linked to Zarqawi
Sydney (Australia) fugitive Saleh Jamal, awaiting a terrorism trial in Lebanon next month, has been linked to Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Court documents allege he was sent overseas by an Australian Islamist to stage jihad attacks against U.S. and Israeli interests.
Much of the evidence against Jamal depends on confessions of people convicted of conspiring with him to travel to Syria.
Among them are two Palestinian clerics who allegedly provided weapons training in southern Lebanon.
Jamal is believed to have forged links in a Palestinian refugee camp with Asbat al-Ansar, an outlawed group linked to Zarqawi's network.
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