Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Leader and Founder of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, November 18, 2005

Date
Nov. 18, 2005
Name of Author
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Body

“Your [Jordan’s King Abdullah II] star is fading. You will not escape your fate, you descendant of traitors. We will be able to reach your head and chop it off.” David Aaron, In Their Own Words: Voices of Jihad (Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 2008), 228.

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