King vows crackdown on Zarqawi

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JORDAN’S King Abdullah II vowed to “take the fight” to Iraq-based Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose group Jordanian officials say carried out suicide attacks in Amman this week that killed 57 people.

“We are going to crack down and take the fight to Zarqawi,” the king said in an interview with CNN television.

“We have been very successful in taking down his operations in the past … (when) he used Jordanians. Now he has changed tactics, he is using foreigners. That means that our security services have to change tactics too.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au …

 

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gilliam:

JORDAN’S King Abdullah II vowed to “take the fight” to Iraq-based Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose group Jordanian officials say carried out suicide attacks in Amman this week that killed 57 people.

“We are going to crack down and take the fight to Zarqawi,” the king said in an interview with CNN television.

“We have been very successful in taking down his operations in the past … (when) he used Jordanians. Now he has changed tactics, he is using foreigners. That means that our security services have to change tactics too.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au …

This is great news! I hope more leaders in the Middle East will heed his call.

We especially need their help here…

But he insisted that the real challenge is to defeat the “culture” of terrorism.

"The real work must look beyond the security measures because the real work … is a united stand by society against this culture that allows for the killing of innocents under various pretexts.

"This culture (of violence) needs an honest and serious stand and a long-term strategy… if we really want to defeat these terrorist groups. “We are determined in Jordan to do just that.”

We can’t change the “culture” of terrorism. It will take Muslims of the world to marginalize the fringe groups. The marches in the street of Jordan are a good start.