Word: ansar
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...battle rages, fierce and bloody, perhaps the heaviest fighting northern Iraq has seen so far in this war. U.S. special forces are here, along with their Kurdish allies, facing down Ansar al-Islam, the diehard terrorist group based in Kurdish-controlled Iraq that the Americans believe is linked to al-Qaeda. "There are three or four isolated pockets of Ansar on very high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declined to give his rank or surname. All Saturday afternoon the Ansar fighters rain down sniper and machine...
Positioned on a mountainside in between, the Americans unleash their own barrage. During four hours of battle, I saw U.S. forces drill Ansar with mortars, heavy machine-gun and antiaircraft artillery, 40-mm grenades and 500-lb. bombs dropped from planes overhead. Still, the fire was returned by an enemy clearly visible through binoculars. At one stage an Ansar defender screamed, "God is Great," even as grenades and heavy rounds peppered the cave he had ducked into...
Special-forces marksmen joined the battle. Three of them took positions behind a rock, patiently waiting to sight their Ansar counterparts far above. "There's a sniper playing with us," said one. The Americans' high-powered rifles cracked intermittently. When the incoming rounds finally ceased, the American snipers picked themselves up. "I think between us we smoked three guys, sir," one said. "Oh, at least," said another...
...security - to transport men and materiél, and fears remain high of "the equivalent of a truck bomb at sea," a senior U.S. Navy official confirmed to Time. "Basically, look at a map, and anywhere you see the word strait is a point of concern." - By Jeff Israely Ansar Loses Twice ITALY Police arrested six men in three northern Italian cities on charges of running operations for Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group based in northeastern Iraq with suspected links to a-Qaeda. Ansar forces in Iraq were also routed last week in fighting with coalition-backed Kurdish troops...
...Documents and computer disks found in the Ansar camp are now being analyzed for names and locations of Ansar associates living in the U.S. and Europe. FBI officials say they have not yet received any data from the document exploitation process but they hope to do so soon. The bureau is concerned not only about Ansar followers but also other radical Jihadists and "lone wolves" moved to violent action by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Whatever their affiliation, Bureau officials say, U.S. lawmen should be aware that malefactors based in the U.S. could create enough toxins to contaminate a local...