Last summer, Suleiman again won praise after a long battle in a Palestinian refugee camp between the army and an al-Qaida-inspired militant group called Fatah al-Islam which left more than 100 soldiers dead.
Shaker al-Abssi, the leader of the Fatah al-Islam group that is involved in that conflict stands accused in Jordan of having conspired with Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born founder of al-Qaida in Iraq, to carry out terrorist attacks on Western targets in Jordan.
Ranging in age between 16 and 24 years, the youths had crossed into Syria to join a battalion led by a member of a militant Islamist group known as Fatah al-Islam, which is fighting to overturn the Syrian government, according to family members of some of the dead youth.