Thomas Joscelyn made another good find regarding former members of Saddam Hussein's regime who joined with al Qaeda.
Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi was captured by Jordanian officials during the suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan.
She is also the sister of "Al-Hajji" Thamer Mubarak, a former Iraqi military officer turned key aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was involved in the August 2003 attack on UN headquarters in Iraq.
Joscelyn notes:Prior to the war, many in the U.S. intelligence community believed that Baathists and Saddam’s forces couldn’t sustain a cooperative relationship Islamists like Zarqawi. No one, apparently, ever told Rishawi or her family.
