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Summary Jordanian-born Zarqawi was killed in an air strike by the US military in Iraq in 2006.
A top Islamist lawyer said on Tuesday the nephew of slain Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among six jihadists arrested in Jordan last week as they tried to cross into Syria.The government has said without elaborating that Jordanian border guards clashed at dawn Saturday with armed men in a border area and arrested all of the gunmen.At least 10 jihadists were arrested in Jordan when they tried enter Syria in April and June, according to Salafist leaders.Jordan shares land borders with Iraq, Israel, Syria, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia.It has beefed up its security along the border with Syria, since a deadly uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad erupted in mid-March last year.The kingdom currently hosts more than 200,000 Syrians who have fled the bloodletting.
