Jordan indicts Zarqawi

A group of militants was summoned yesterday and formally charged for their alleged role in a thwarted chemical attack using suicide bombers, judicial sources said ahead of a trial which should begin next month. They said state security prosecutor...

A group of militants was summoned yesterday and formally charged for their alleged role in a thwarted chemical attack using suicide bombers, judicial sources said ahead of a trial which should begin next month.

They said state security prosecutor Mahmoud Obeidat read charges against Jordanian al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his alleged Syrian right hand man Abu Al-Ghadia.

Abu Al-Ghadia is among nine defendants in police custody who were charged. Four others will be tried in absentia, including Zarqawi himself.

The nine "heard the charges against them and were told by the prosecutor their case will be referred to the state security court in preparation for a trial soon", a source in the prosecutor's office told Reuters.

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