IRAQ�S most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, goes to sleep every night wearing a suicide belt packed with explosives, according to a leading insurgent who met him two weeks ago.
�He never takes it off,� said Sheikh Abu Omar al-Ansari, leader of a Sunni resistance group called Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura (Army of the Victorious Sect).
�He told me: �I would rather blow myself up and die as a martyr � and kill a few Americans along the way � than be arrested and humiliated by them�.�
His account, passed to The Sunday Times by a reliable intermediary, is the first description of Zarqawi in Iraq since Washington slapped a $25m bounty on his head, the same as the reward for the killing or capture of Osama Bin Laden.
The sheikh�s two-day meeting with the Jordanian-born Zarqawi provided a rare insight into the terrorist accused of masterminding the videotaped beheadings of western hostages � including Ken Bigley, the Liverpool-born engineer, in 2004 � and countless suicide bombings and assassinations.
�He is known by America and the world as the prince of beheadings, the murdering sheikh of innocents, the blood spiller,� said Ansari.
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