Ziad Khalaf al-Karbouly ( ar, زياد خلف الكربولي; 1970 - died 4 February 2015), a native of
Al-Qa'im, was an Islamist former Iraqi officer and the son of an Iraqi tribal sheikh of the Al-Karabla clan of the
Dulaim
Dulaim or Dulaimi or Al Duliam or Dulaym ( ar, الدليم) is an Arab royal tribe, with over seven million members. The tribe's history goes back to pre-Islamic times and members reside today in Iraq and neighboring countries such as Syria, ...
.
Arrest and trial
Al-Karbouly was captured by Jordanian
71st Counter Terrorism Battalion with the aid of
Jordanian intelligence officers in May 2006, and accused of being
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( ar, أَبُو مُصْعَبٍ ٱلزَّرْقَاوِيُّ, ', ''Father of Musab, from Zarqa''; ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (, '), was a Jordanian jihadist who ran a t ...
's assistant which Karbouly denied. Karbouly told the tribunal that he was “innocent”. He also disputed the prosecution's version that he was captured inside Iraq in a joint operation of the Jordanian army and intelligence on 10 May. He told the tribunal that he was instead
kidnapped
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* subject to the crime of kidnapping
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* ''Kidnapped'' (comics), a 2007 graphic novel adaptation of R. L. Stevenson's novel by Alan Grant and Ca ...
“from Lebanon on May 6.”
On 23 May 2006, he admitted that he had abducted and killed citizens from Jordan and Iraq, and had abducted two Moroccans in October 2005.
Execution
Al-Karbouly was sentenced to death, and along with failed suicide bomber
Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, was hanged on 4 February 2015, expedited in retaliation for the burning of
Royal Jordanian Air Force
The Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF; ar, سلاح الجو الملكي الأردني, Silāḥ ul-Jawu al-Malakī 'al-Urdunī) is the aerial warfare branch of the Jordanian Armed Forces.
History
Early days
Jordan gained independence in 19 ...
lieutenant
Muath al-Kasasbeh
Muath Safi Yousef al-Kasasbeh ( ar, معاذ صافي يوسف الكساسبة, Muʿaḏ Ṣāfī Yūsuf al-Kasāsibah South Levantine pronunciation: ; 29 May 1988 – 3 January 2015) was a Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot who was captur ...
by the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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.
References
2015 deaths
Iraq–Jordan relations
Members of al-Qaeda in Iraq
Iraqi people convicted of murder
Executed Iraqi people
People convicted of murder by Jordan
People convicted on terrorism charges
People executed by Jordan by hanging
21st-century executions by Jordan
Iraqi people executed abroad
People executed for murder
Deaths by hanging
1970 births
2000s murders in Jordan
2006 crimes in Jordan
2006 murders in Asia
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