My husband is a nice guy, says terror suspect's wife
The terror leader blamed for executing and beheading hostages in Iraq is a nice man who could not kill women and children, his wife said today.
Al-Qaida ally Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi has been blamed for several deadly attacks on coalition forces in Iraq.
Statements attributed to the Jordanian have claimed responsibility for executing hostages in Iraq.
One recent statement included a threat to kill Iraq’s interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi.
But his wife Umm Mohammed told a Jordanian newspaper: “There’s no way that my husband could be a terrorist. He is friendly and a good man,
“He would not recommend the killings of children, women and elderly people as they’re trying to portray him,” she said at the family’s home in Zarqa, near the Jordanian capital Amman.
Al-Zarqawi, aged 38, whose real name is Ahmad Fadhil Nazzal al-Khalayleh, is on the US most wanted list.
Intelligence officials say al-Zarqawi is believed to have at least 2,000 militants working for him in Iraq.
Al-Zarqawi is accused of masterminding a foiled terror attack that targeted the intelligence department, the prime minister’s office and the US Embassy in Amman.
Authorities uncovered the plot in April and arrested six militants who said in televised confessions that they had plotted chemical attacks in Jordan under direct instructions from al-Zarqawi.
His wife said she has not heard from her husband since he left Jordan for Afghanistan in 1999.
