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AMMAN, Jordan, June 24 (UPI) -- The wife of al-Qaida's chief in Iraq Ahmed Khalayla, better known as Abu Misaab al-Zarqawi, said her husband is a good man and people are out to get him.
"My husband is a good and affectionate man and I don't believe that he could kill innocent women and children," Amman's daily al-Dustour Thursday quoted al-Zarqawi's wife, Umm Mohammed, as saying.
She charged there is a campaign aimed at distorting the truth about her husband and make him look like a criminal.
Umm Mohammed, al-Zarqawi's first wife, is living in a poor Amman neighborhood with her four children, the oldest of whom is a 12-year-old girl.
Al-Zarqawi has a second wife who reportedly followed him to Afghanistan in 1999.
The United States offered a reward for assistance and tips leading to the arrest of al-Zarqawi, who is believed to be the mastermind of terrorist attacks against coalition forces in Iraq.
Al-Zarqawi is also wanted in his native Jordan where he was sentenced to death twice in absentia for belonging to al-Qaida and planning the assassination of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman in 2002.
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