Definitions
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- noun city in northwestern Jordan
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06 April 2009 ZARQA (Petra) - Industrial exports of the governorates of Zarqa and Mafraq increased by 24.4 per cent during the first quarter of this year to $113.4 million compared to
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Zarqa is a shambolic industrial city of some 850,000 people, a sprawl of factories, open fields, and dust.
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Zarqa is a shambolic industrial city of some 850,000 people, a sprawl of factories, open fields, and dust.
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Zarqa is a shambolic industrial city of some 850,000 people, a sprawl of factories, open fields, and dust.
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Their first operation was in Zarqa, in 1993, a former Jordanian intelligence official told me, when al-Zarqawi dispatched one of their men to a local cinema with orders to blow it up because it was showing pornographic films.
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Their first operation was in Zarqa, in 1993, a former Jordanian intelligence official told me, when al-Zarqawi dispatched one of their men to a local cinema with orders to blow it up because it was showing pornographic films.
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Zarqa is a shambolic industrial city of some 850,000 people, a sprawl of factories, open fields, and dust.
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I mean, when you drive through Amman, you actually see a-- a sign for the town called Zarqa, which is not far from Amman, which was actually where Zarqawi comes from -- hence, his name.
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The house was empty, a neighbor told us; al-Zarqawi’s sisters, who still live in Zarqa, would come by to look after it.
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Everyone I spoke with readily acknowledged that as a teenager al-Zarqawi had been a bully and a thug, a bootlegger and a heavy drinker, and even, allegedly, a pimp in Zarqa’s underworld.
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