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Al-Zarqawi threatens to kill Jordan's king
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-19 01:30
An audiotape purportedly from the head of al-Qaida in Iraq Friday threatened
to kill Jordan's King Abdullah II and bomb more hotels and tourist sites.
The speaker on the tape, identified as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, also said the
group's suicide bombers did not intend to bomb a Jordanian wedding party at an
Amman hotel last week, killing about 30 people.
Al-Zarqawi said the bomber who detonated his explosives in the Radisson SAS
hotel on Nov. 9 was targeting a hall where he claimed Israeli and American
intelligence officials were meeting.
That bomb caused part of the roof to fall in the wedding hall.
Al-Zarqawi accused the Jordanian government of hiding casualties among
Israeli and American intelligence agents, and he insisted al-Qaida in Iraq was
not targeting fellow Muslims.
"We want to assure you that ... you are more beloved to us than ourselves,"
al-Zarqawi said, addressing Jordanians.
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