print email comment close Zarqawi's Journey: From Dropout to Prisoner to Insurgent Leader URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/international/middleeast/13zarq.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=fef1b3dec1a80375&ex=1247371200&partner=rssuserland Description: 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. Author: Gettleman, Jeffrey Publisher: The New York Times Extra Keywords Ahmed al-Khalayleh Queda Library of Congress Subject Headings: People Terrorists Zarqāwī, Abū Muṣʻab, 1966-2006 LII Database Information: Record 21799 created by Maria Brandt on 06/12/2006 Last modification on 06/13/2006 Published: 06/15/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21799