Word: mousab
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...former Iraqi Baath officials allegedly supporting the insurgency from Syria that the U.S. wanted the regime to round up. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that the U.S. has pressed Syria to arrest Sulayman Khalid Darwish, a Syrian who Washington charges is not only the chief banker to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist mastermind in Iraq, but also one of his top logistical agents and recruiters. The official says Darwish sends money "across the Syrian border in vehicles driven by couriers carrying bags of cash" to be delivered to al-Zarqawi's personal aides. Assad's response...
Hard-line Islamist fighters like Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda group will not compromise in their campaign to create an Islamic state. But in interviews with TIME, senior Iraqi insurgent commanders said several "nationalist" rebel groups--composed predominantly of ex--military officers and what the Pentagon dubs "former regime elements"--have moved toward a strategy of "fight and negotiate." Although they have no immediate plans to halt attacks on U.S. troops, they say their aim is to establish a political identity that can represent disenfranchised Sunnis and eventually negotiate an end to the U.S. military's offensive...
...Baghdad are manufactured in the relative quiet of an arc of Sunni tribal lands around the capital. That is the true heartland of the resistance, where it draws on massive weapons depots secreted in river valleys and deserts. The nationalist fighters who control the area supply Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's networks with the ammo they use for their deadly operations, according to U.S. military intelligence. Even as more attacks took place last week in the run-up to the election--including mortar rounds on the U.S. embassy that killed two Americans--the Iraqi government announced the capture of several...
...some members of the insurgency--whose estimated strength could be higher than 20,000--may be coaxed to come in from the cold, there's little chance that jihadist guerrillas will abandon their goal of fomenting civil war. As if to underscore the point, a group loyal to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most-wanted insurgent in Iraq, released an Internet audio message last week in which al-Zarqawi purportedly vows to wage holy war against the U.S. and its allies in Iraq for years...
...President Bush sees himself as the leader of the democratic world and the fight against terrorists, his decisions since 9/11 have been reactive rather than proactive. It pains me greatly, therefore, to nominate two people who have really been calling the shots: Osama bin Laden and insurgent leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Both seem to understand that power comes through the hearts and minds of the people. Stanley J. Courtney Shrewsbury, England...