Jordan says its intelligence helped kill Zarqawi

AMMAN, June 8: Jordanian intelligence helped in the operation that led to the killing of al Qaeda's leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi today, a Jordanian spokesman said.

''There has been early exchange of intelligence information with the United States that helped in the operation that killed Zarqawi,'' government spokesman Nasser Joudeh told Reuters.

Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who had sworn loyalty to Osama bin Laden, had come to symbolise the radical Islamic insurgency against US occupation in which thousands had been killed.

REUTERS

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