Thursday, March 31, 2005

Coalition forces holding Zarqawi operative with dual U.S.-Jordanian citizenship

U.S. forces in Iraq are holding a senior operative of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi who holds joint American Jordanian citizenship, defense officials said Thursday.The man was captured in a raid by Coalition forces in Iraq late in 2004, said Matthew Waxman, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs.Declared an enemy combatent he is still being held as a security threat but has been visited by representatives of the International Committee on the Red Cross.He is the first American known to be captured fighting for the insurgency in Iraq, Waxman said, and officials are considering options how to proceed with his case.

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