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Meantime Zarqawi took residence in Pakistan and befriended many Jordanian jihadists, and began organizing to overthrow the [[Heshemite dynasty]] of Jordan.<ref>[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=27304#.VANcMfBX-uY</ref>

Meantime Zarqawi took residence in Pakistan and befriended many Jordanian jihadists, and began organizing to overthrow the [[Heshemite dynasty]] of Jordan.<ref>[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=27304#.VANcMfBX-uY</ref>

==Return to Jordan==

==Return to the Middle East==

He spent seven years in prison in Jordan for conspiring to overthrow the monarchy and establish an Islamic caliphate.

He spent seven years in prison in Jordan for conspiring to overthrow the monarchy and establish an Islamic caliphate.

Jordan had asked Iraq to extradite al-Zarqawi following the murder of the U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley, executive officer of USAid, but [[Saddam Hussein]]'s regime ignored the request. Zarqawi was in Iraq at the end of 2002 and that he was given shelter by the terrorist group Ansar al-Islam which operated from northern Iraq. <ref>http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/articles/2006/march/karmon/1.pdf</ref>

Jordan had asked Iraq to extradite al-Zarqawi following the murder of the U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley, executive officer of USAid, but [[Saddam Hussein]]'s regime ignored the request. Zarqawi was in Iraq at the end of 2002 and was given shelter by the terrorist group Ansar al-Islam which operated from northern Iraq. <ref>http://www.gloria-center.org/meria/articles/2006/march/karmon/1.pdf</ref> He was tried ''in absentia'' for murder in Jordan and given the death penalty.

==al-Qaeda in Iraq==

==al-Qaeda in Iraq==