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Line 2: − Zarqawi rose to prominence as an "Afghan Arab" - leading [[foreign fighters]] in the "[[jihad]]" against [[Soviet]] forces in [[Afghanistan]] in the 1980s. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3483089.stm Profile: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi] BBC, November 10, 2005</ref> But after the defeat of the Soviets, Zarqawi went back to Jordan with a radical Islamic agenda. He spent seven years in prison in Jordan for conspiring to overthrow the monarchy and establish an Islamic caliphate. He fled Jordan after release.+
→Afghanistan: Not true; Zarqawi first arrived in Afghsnistan in 1989 ''after'' the Soviets withdrew
==Afghanistan==
==Afghanistan==
But after the defeat of the Soviets, Zarqawi went back to Jordan with a radical Islamic agenda. He spent seven years in prison in Jordan for conspiring to overthrow the monarchy and establish an Islamic caliphate. He fled Jordan after release.
==Iraq==
==Iraq==