Zarqawi buried in secret in Iraq
Reuters, Baghdad
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq killed this month in a US air strike, has been buried in a secret grave in Iraq, Iraq's national security adviser said yesterday. "The Iraqi authorities recently buried the body of Zarqawi in a marked but secret place," Mowaffak al-Rubaie told Reuters. Zarqawi, a Jordanian, was killed on June 7. Iraqi, US and Jordanian authorities have been anxious his tomb not become a place of pilgrimage. al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called on the U.S. military to release Zarqawi's body to his family in a Web site audio tape on Friday. He also said Jordan's King Abdullah should allow him to be buried in his home town.
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