Thinking like a Jihadist: Iraq's Jordanian connection.

From: World Policy Journal | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Earlier this year, Muhammad Zaki Amawi and Marwan Othman el-Hindi, Jordanian-born U.S. citizens, and Wassim I. Mazloum, a Lebanese citizen, stood in a federal district court in Ohio, accused of conspiring to wage jihad against U.S. forces in Iraq. According to the indictment against them, Amawi had flown to Jordan last August carrying laptop computers that he intended to donate to the mujahidin in Iraq. Amawi, the indictment stated, had "unsuccessfully attempted to enter Iraq to wage violent jihad, or 'holy war,' against the United States and coalition forces."

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