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AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan provided the U.S. military with information that helped in tracking down and killing al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian official said.
Some of the information came from Jordan's sources inside Iraq and led the U.S. military to the area of Baqouba, the region northeast of Baghdad where Iraq's prime minister said al-Zarqawi was killed in an airstrike Wednesday night, said the official, who has knowledge of the operation.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was addressing intelligence issues, would not elaborate, but Jordan is known to have intelligence agents operating in Iraq to hunt down Islamic militants.
Jordan also analyzed a video issued by the Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi in April and helped pinpoint where it was filmed, the official said. The video showed images of al-Zarqawi standing in a desert landscape, firing a machine gun.
The official did not give details about how discovering the location led the military to al-Zarqawi or whether the video was filmed in the same location where al-Zarqawi was killed. When the video came out, observers said the flat desert setting resembled parts of Iraq's Anbar province, to the west of Diyala province, where Baqouba is located.
Originally posted by Nygdan
I also have to wonder, is there some sort of signal that can be broadcast, say from a satellite, or from a local military installation, somethign that can be picked up by a regular video recorder, but that isn't visibile to the naked eye, or that can be 'filtered' and revelead?
Originally posted by Crakeur
I read that some of his own men might have helped with his location.
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.
Originally posted by deltaboy
Officials say he will not be eligible for any of the $25 million reward money.
Originally posted by Aelita
Originally posted by Nygdan
I also have to wonder, is there some sort of signal that can be broadcast, say from a satellite, or from a local military installation, somethign that can be picked up by a regular video recorder, but that isn't visibile to the naked eye, or that can be 'filtered' and revelead?
Nygdan, you are a genius. Seriously.
Here's the thinkg, though -- the videos are compressed/filtered and I believe that the only copies of the Zarqawi's videos were internet ones.