Things Like This Need More Publicity
In a world where it is all too easy to think "all Moslems are terrorists" and secretly thinking that the majority of Moslems somehow support the terrorists, stories like this often go unnoticed. The family in Islam is a very powerful unit. For a family to denounce one of their own is remarkable and important.
Aljazeera.Net - Family severs ties with al-Zarqawi:
Family severs ties with al-Zarqawi
Sunday 20 November 2005, 18:40 Makka Time, 15:40 GMT
Al-Zarqawi's real name is Ahmed Fadheel Nazzal al-Khalayleh
Family members of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have renounced the Jordanian-born Al-Qaida in Iraq chief, telling King Abdullah II that they would "sever links with him until doomsday".
Al-Zarqawi, whose real name is Ahmed Fadheel Nazzal al-Khalayleh, claimed responsibility for the 9 November deadly attacks on three Amman hotels, which killed 59 people.
He took his name from the city of Zarqa, 27km northeast of Amman.
In half-page advertisements on Sunday in Jordan's three main newspapers, 57 members of the al-Khalayleh family, including al-Zarqawi's brother and cousin, also reiterated allegiance to the king.
Al-Zarqawi had threatened to kill the king in an audiotape on Friday.
"As we pledge to maintain homage to your throne and to our precious Jordan ... we denounce in the clearest terms all the terrorist actions claimed by the so-called Ahmed Fadheel Nazzal al-Khalayleh, who calls himself Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," the family members said.