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...their armed struggle into a political movement that aims to exploit the upheaval and turn parts of Iraq into Taliban-style fiefdoms. A potential leader is Sheik Mahdi Ahmed al-Sumaidai, a hard-line Salafi imam recently released from Abu Ghraib prison and now based in Baghdad's radical Ibn Taimiya Mosque. Mujahedin leaders and U.S. military and intelligence officers in Iraq say many jihadists are also rallying behind Harith al-Dhari, who leads the Association of Muslim Scholars, Iraq's most significant Sunni organization. Al-Dhari, who operates out of the Mother of all Battles Mosque, is said...
...jihadists are stirring up those sentiments in the one place that generally remains off limits to the Americans: the mosque. U.S. and Iraqi officials say a worrying number of mosques are providing support for insurgents, whether jihadist, Baathist or both. Early this month U.S. and Iraqi troops raided Ibn Taymiyah mosque in Baghdad, arresting the mosque's imam and 31 suspected militants and uncovering a cache of weaponry. Still, according to a senior military official, U.S. forces in Iraq have conducted relatively few raids inside mosques for fear of offending ordinary Iraqis. Says the official: "You could win the battle...
...Provisional Authority with a wealth of intelligence. The documents have helped expose the identities of several key resistance leaders, a senior Iraqi source tells TIME. And clues culled from the papers led U.S. forces last week to an alleged ring of Islamic terrorists operating out of the Sunni mosque Ibn Taimiya in Baghdad. The raid netted at least 32 suspected militants, including 26 who were wanted by the coalition. U.S. forces also detained the mosque's imam, Mahdi al-Sumaydah, who is believed to be a prominent resistance leader. "This was a major operations center for attacks against Iraqis...
...that spread far and wide, consuming desert camps and towns alike. He told his dream to a sheik, who said the man's son would found a new faith that the desert Arabs would adopt. And so it transpired--although the founder was ultimately the man's grandson: Mohammed ibn Abd Wahhab...
COUNTERSTRIKE 1818 to 1922 The Ottoman Empire and Egypt took back the land by 1818. But in 1902 Abdul Aziz ibn Saud led a Saudi resurgence, successfully uniting the different regions into one nation...