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==Afghanistan==
==Afghanistan==
Zarqawi rose to prominence as "Afghan Arabs" - 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.
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.
==Iraq==
==Iraq==