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1999: Al-Zarqawi is freed from jail under amnesty granted by Jordanian King Abdullah shortly after he took office. Al-Zarqawi travels via Pakistan to Afghanistan, where he joins up with Al-Qaeda.

http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1069045.html

2000: Al-Zarqawi sets up an Al-Qaeda training camp near the western Afghan city of Herat.

December 2001: Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, al-Zarqawi flees to Iran.

April 2002: Al-Zarqawi leaves Iran and enters Iraq.

February 2003: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell names al-Zarqawi as an associate of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.

(Entire time line is at the link. Zim.)




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