U.S. citizen held in Iraq as suspected insurgent

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BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Friday it has held since last year an American citizen without chargesin Iraq as a suspected top aide to militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, drawing condemnation from civil rights activists.

The man, who U.S. officials at the Pentagon and in Iraq refused to identify by name, possessed dual U.S.-Jordanian citizenship, themilitary said.

The man was not born in the United States, but became a naturalized U.S. citizen and lived in "a couple of different cities" duringabout 20 years in America, one official said.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5648403&cKey=1112383226000

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1. Wouldn't that be an "outsurgent"

or are we the outsurgents?

I am, for the second time today, confused. :crazy:

[Frederik]

2. The Iraqis are outsourcing the insurgency

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5. LOL we're outsourcing outsourcing! n/t

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3. Funny how he is Jordanian

and not Iranian or Syrian. You don't hear the propoganda machine blaming Jordan for supporting the insurgency much do you.

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4. al-Zarqawi...

... is Jordanian, so that's probably the connection, if there is one.

There were some photos mid-March of Iraqis protesting about one of the people involved with a major truck bomb that killed almost 100 people being Jordanian, so it is known, even if not widely publicized.