Word: ansar
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...links between Iraq and the Sept. 11 conspirators are elusive, links to al-Qaeda may not be. In the past three years, an armed group of Islamic extremists now known as Ansar al-Islam, led in part by a suspected Iraqi intelligence agent, Abu Wa'el, has waged a terror campaign in Kurdistan. Most recently, in April, three militants tried to kill the Prime Minister of eastern Kurdistan just as a State Department official was visiting the region. "It was a message to the U.S.," says a Kurdish investigator. Many of the 700 to 800 members of the group were...
...middle-class trajectory of Saeed's life went off course after he volunteered for a Muslim charity in Bosnia and fell too ill to complete the trip. Within a year, Saeed dropped out of school and, after training at a camp in Afghanistan, joined the militant group Harkat ul-Ansar...
...Asbat al-Ansar, an anti-Israel Sunni Muslim group, last week denied U.S. accusations that it has financial ties to bin Laden. Its purported leader, Abu Mohjen, is believed to be operating out of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon after being sentenced to death in absentia by a Lebanese court for several killings in that country. A group spokesman is shown at left...