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Zarqawi's Journey: From Dropout to Prisoner to Insurgent Leader
July 2004 profile of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was considered by U.S. officials to be "the biggest terrorist threat in Iraq." Reviews his youth in Jordan, how he became a reporter for a small jihadist magazine, his imprisonment in the 1990s "after the Jordanian authorities discovered assault rifles and bombs stashed in his house," and his terrorist connections with al-Qaida. From The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/international/middleeast/13zarq.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=fef1b3dec1a80375&ex=1247371200&partner=rssuserland

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