The health of Jordanian Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi, a leading al Qaeda thinker, has deteriorated after a three-week hunger strike to protest his two year imprisonment without trial, his family said on Sunday.
Maqdisi, who was regarded as the spiritual mentor of slain al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was re-arrested in July 2005 following his acquittal at a trial of Jordanian and Saudi sympathizers of al Qaeda. Full Story
