A suspected member of al-Qaeda in Iraq confessed on Jordanian television on Tuesday to last year murdering a Jordanian driver in Iraq and abducting two Moroccan embassy employees.
The man, who identified himself as Iraqi national Ziad Khalaf al-Karbuli, said during the 15-minute tape that he shot to death Khalid Dassuki ”with my personal revolver” in September inside Iraq.
”I fired two shots at his head,” Karbuli said.
He also claimed responsibility for the abduction of the two Moroccans in October and said they were later handed over to the al-Qaeda group in Iraq, run by Jordanian-born Islamist fugitive Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
State television, quoting a security source, identified al-Karbuli as a customs employee on the Iraqi border and said he was arrested in a joint operation by the intelligence forces and army special forces after drawing him out of Iraq.
Karbuli also confessed during his interrogation by the Jordanian judicial authorities to having abducted an aide to a former Iraqi finance minister who was on his way from Jordan to Iraq, the security source was quoted as saying.
According to the source, al-Karbuli also confessed that he killed four Iraqi national guards, television reported.
The Jordanian authorities announced Karbuli’s arrest on Monday and identified the suspect as ”an important figure in the al-Qaeda in Iraq organisation led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi”. — AFP
