Who is Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi?
He has emerged from obscurity to become synonymous with evil. He is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a 37-year-old Jordanian responsible for a string of brutal hostage murders and suicidal bombings in Iraq. This week he and his militant group are believed to have carried out the decapitation of two Americans abducted last week. A third hostage, Briton Kenneth Bigley, was taken at the same time and in the past few hours, has appeared blindfolded on an Islamist website, making a direct desperate appeal to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help spare him. Zarqawi’s group is known as ‘al-Tawhid’, which means ‘unity’ in Arabic, and his reach may spread well beyond Iraq. Spanish officials are reportedly investigating whether he masterminded the Madrid train bombings in March when almost 200 people were killed. And Zarqawi was sentenced to death in absentia by a Jordanian court on charges of plotting to overthrow the monarchy and replacing it with a caliphate. So who is Zarqawi and what are his links
