Jordan

Question 1

Name of Jordanian prison were Zarqawi was interned and rose to prominence

Answer 1

Al-Jafr (desolate, filthy; also were Lawrence of Arabia eas filmed in ‘62)

Question 2

Who were “the Brothers” (Ikwahn)

Answer 2

trained by Saudi Arabia’s first monarch, Ibn Saud, to help him defeat his political rivals.

But the Ikhwan had ambitions beyond the Arabian Peninsula. Bloodthirsty fanatics who regarded all Western inventions and practices as works of the devil, they saw themselves as divinely appointed to purify the region by slaughtering all who allied with foreigners or deviated from their narrow vision of Islam. From the harsh wastelands of the interior, they thundered into the newly formed countries of Jordan and Iraq in the early 1920s with the intention of toppling governments and creating a unified Islamic theocracy, or caliphate, spanning all of the Middle East.