The country of Jordan is refusing to allow the body of the Jordanian Al Qaeda terrorist al-Zarqawi to be buried there.
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The family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi asked three Islamist lawmakers to intervene with Jordan’s government to bring the slain militant’s body home for burial, one of the lawmakers said Saturday.
“One of al-Zarqawi’s brothers asked us to speak with the government,” Ali Abu-Sukkar told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “What the family is asking for is legitimate.”
The government has so far refused to allow al-Zarqawi to be buried in Jordan because of the triple suicide bombing his al-Qaida in Iraq organization carried out Nov. 9 in Amman, which killed 60 people, mainly Jordanian Muslims.
The three lawmakers belong to the Islamic Action Front, the largest opposition group in parliament, which has links to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.
On Friday, they paid a condolence call to al-Zarqawi’s family home in the city of Zarqa, east of Amman. The visit drew condemnation from Jordan’s largest newspaper, the semiofficial Al-Rai.
“What will these legislators say to the families of the victims of the Amman hotel blasts?” the paper asked Saturday.
But Abu-Sukkar said it was a “social tradition and religious duty” to pay condolences to the family of a slain Muslim.
“Al-Zarqawi has gone ahead and God will try him and every people based on their deeds,” he said.
Though aware of the family’s wishes, Jordan’s government will not “under any circumstances” allow the terrorist leader to be buried in Jordan and “stain Jordanian soil,” a top security official told AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give media interviews.
I’m sure there’s a garbage dump somwhere that would agree to take him.
