Iraqi Gov't Agent Admits al-Qaida Killings

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Iraqi Gov't Agent Admits al-Qaida Killings
By JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer

AMMAN, Jordan - An Iraqi government contractor confessed on Jordanian television to kidnapping and killing on the orders of al-Qaida in Iraq before he was lured to Jordan and arrested.

The man, identified as Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly, said that he had kidnapped two Moroccan embassy employees and an Iraqi finance ministry official under direct orders from the terror group and its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The man, also known as Abu Huthayfa, also said that he had killed a Jordanian truck driver.

"Al-Karbouly used his position as a customs clearing agent" on Iraq's border with Jordan to "facilitate his crimes," including kidnapping Jordanians and other Arabs crossing the desert, the Jordanian government said on the half-hour, prime time special Tuesday evening.

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1. "Under the spreading chestnut tree"

“I sold you and you sold me
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree”

Televised confessions always remind me of a quaint little bar named "The Chestnut Tree" where they serve a marvelous Victory Gin fizz...