[August 9, 2003, by Randa Habib] Fugitive Jordanian national Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was at the centre of pre-war US efforts to establish a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, has emerged as chief suspect in the deadly bombing of Jordan's Baghdad embassy.....
"The style of the attack and the explosives used, point towards Ansar al-Islam and in particular to Zarqawi, who is still on the run in Iraq," a senior Jordanian official told AFP on condition of anonymity.......
Zarqawi left his family home in Zarqa, an impoverished town 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Amman, as a young man for Afghanistan, where he was trained in al-Qaeda camps and fought against the Soviet occupation.....

A Special Forces officer flipped through the Ansar explosives manual found here, noting, as other American officers have, that it included page after page of instructional diagrams from United States Army publications.
He recognized almost every one. "This one is from our improvised munitions manual," he said. "That's from the booby trap manual. This is almost photocopied from our books."
Northern Iraq has long had a small cadre of jihad fighters, including some who Kurdish intelligence officials say trained in western Pakistan in the 1980's, when the United States was underwriting the guerrilla resistance against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan.