Zarqawi's role in Iraq overstated, analysts say

AMMAN, Jordan -- American officials have grossly inflated the role of Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the violence in Iraq in their eagerness to blame foreign terrorists for the insurgency, according to Jordanian analysts and Western diplomats. (Full article: 1844 words)

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