From Wikipedia: Zarqa is Jordan's industrial centre, home to over 50% of Jordanian factories. The growth of industry in the city is the result of low real estate costs and proximity to the capital, Amman. The city of Zarqa was established by immigrants from the Caspian Sea region at the beginning of the twentieth century, initially on the banks of the Zarqa River, the population grew steadily with the construction of the Hejaz railway by the ottomans. The bases of the Jordanian army, formerly called the Arab Legion, were located in Zarqa.
A New York Times article however points out the rising harsh conservatism in this young city. It begins as follows: ZARQA, Jordan — This crammed slum of four-story concrete housing blocs has given Jordan some of its biggest headaches: it is a stronghold of the opposition Islamic Action Front and the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who rose from here to the helm of the Iraqi insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
To see the rest of the article, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/world/middleeast/16jordan.html
I. Al-Zarqawi and his bodyguard visited his hometown of Zarqa, but not to make social calls.
II. There, they equipped and supplied their rocket launchers with new missles.
III. Always ready for combat, they joined, connected, and coupled the rockets with the rocket launchers right way.
IV. They knew that, at the very least, they will pester, vex, irk, upset, and annoy aircraft flying overhead with these missles.
V. The two other Al Qada suppliers they met with in Zarqa flattered them for all the damage they had been inflicting in Iraq, and
VI. They increased their arsenal greatly with a huge supply of missles.
VII. However, they got annoyed with many people in the Zarqa market as they tried with great difficultly to hall their arsenal wrapped in burlap bundles through the city in the morning.
VIII. The market was crowed at the sky was thick with smog.
IX. Finally however, they got out of the city and saw the sky turn blue above them.
X. They were angry though thinking about how they were returning to a country where they were despised, looked down upon, and disrespected by so many enemies. Truly though they mused to each other, they would not just annoy their enemies with these rockets--they would make their enemies beg for mercy with these new weapons.
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