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Article: Road from Brainerd led to a jail in Baghdad; Shawqi Omar once served in the Minnesota National Guard. Now he's a terrorism suspect.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 9, 2006
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Byline: Greg Gordon; Mark Brunswick; Rochelle Olson; Staff Writers
A Jordanian-American who once served in the Minnesota National Guard is being held in Iraq, suspected of leading a terror cell for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, head of Al-Qaida in Iraq.
The Justice Department says an Iraqi insurgent and four Jordanian fighters who were captured with Shawqi Omar at his Baghdad home in October 2004 have charged that he was leading an effort to conduct surveillance on Baghdad hotel guests and to kidnap foreigners.
Just 11 days before the raid, the department said, Omar, Al-Zarqawi and 11 others were indicted in Jordan on charges of plotting a chemical ...