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(3,746 posts) Thu Feb 5, 2015, 02:28 PM Feb 2015

Jordan releases leading al Qaeda mentor: security source

Source: Reuters

Jordanian authorities released on Thursday Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi, a leading al–Qaeda spiritual guide, who was arrested last October, a security source told Reuters.

They said Maqdisi's release was ordered by the state security prosecutor. The reason for his release -- two days after the ultra-hardline Islamic State issued a video showing a captive Jordanian pilot being burned alive -- was not immediately clear.

The self-taught intellectual was seen as the spiritual guide of the slain al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but later disowned him for killing civilians indiscriminately.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/05/us-mideast-crisis-jordan-qaeda-idUSKBN0L92GE20150205

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Maqdisi is one of the leading jihadist opponents of the Islamic State declaration Takashi Zara Feb 2015 #1

Takashi Zara

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1. Maqdisi is one of the leading jihadist opponents of the Islamic State declaration

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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 04:04 PM

Feb 2015

Maqdisi's rulings and statements against the Khilafah declaration of al-Baghdadi and his organization have been more vehement than anyone. The Jordanian motives for his release are, in fact, very clear.

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