Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly, a top aide to the terror group's leader Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is arrested by Jordanian intelligence agents May 23, 2006. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

    AMMAN, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A senior member of the al-Qaida's wing in Iraq, who was arrested by Jordanian intelligence agents, made confession of abducting and killing Arabs on Jordanian state television on Tuesday.

    The arrested Iraqi man was identified as Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly and a top aide to the terror group's leader Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

    He admitted that he had carried out attacks on Jordanian citizens, including truck drivers on the highway between Iraq and the kingdom.

    The al-Qaida suspect added that he abducted two Moroccans working at Moroccan embassy in Baghdad last October. Last November, al-Qaida said the two men were sentenced to death.

    The state prosecutor has started legal procedures to bring him to court for trial but the date has not been revealed. The al-Qaida in Iraq has claimed responsibility for several terror attacks against Jordan, including the triple hotel bombing attacks in Amman on Nov. 9, 2005, which killed at least 60 people, including three Iraqi suicide bombers.

    A Jordanian military court has sentenced al-Zarqawi to death three times for terror attacks in his absence. Enditem

Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly, a top aide to the terror group's leader Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, makes confession of abducting and killing Arabs on Jordanian state televisionis May 23, 2006. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)