Word: mousab
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...officials have sought to lay the blame for the bloodshed on foreign terrorists. They point to a call for instigating civil strife that was contained in an intercepted letter allegedly written by Jordanian terrorist chieftain Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Said Bremer: "We know they did this as part of an effort to promote sectarian violence among Muslims ... because they believe that is the only way to stop Iraq's march toward the democracy terrorists fear." In the aftermath of Tuesday's carnage, Iraqi leaders of all stripes were quick to urge their constituents not to turn on ethnic or religious...
...Ministry of Interior estimates, exceeding the number of U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives (547 since March 20). One tantalizing possibility is that al-Qaeda may be fueling the attacks. In mid-January, U.S. officials intercepted a letter they believe was written by al-Qaeda operative Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who is thought to be based somewhere inside Iraq. The letter characterizes Iraq's new security forces as "the eyes, ears and hand of the occupier" and says they should be targeted "before their power strengthens...
brothers, leaders of Jihad." The author, U.S. military officials have concluded, was Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, whom U.S. intelligence believes is al-Qaeda's top operative in Iraq. If the memo is what Washington says it is, and if its author is not exaggerating, then al-Qaeda has played a greater role in the insurgency in Iraq than anyone has appreciated. The letter's author claims to have overseen 25 suicide attacks against various targets in Iraq, which would constitute almost all such assaults since the U.S. rolled into Iraq...
...Also captured was Husam al Yemeni, whom a U.S. official in Iraq says was supplying money to the anti-American resistance and commanding attacks against coalition forces. Yemeni, says another U.S. intelligence source, is "an al-Ansar guy" and an aide to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi...
...their base in March. Since then, says a security chief in Kurdistan named Khasraw, the Ansar fighters have returned to Iraq and established cells in Fallujah and Baghdad, with the aim to "attack U.S. interests everywhere on orders from outside, namely al-Qaeda." U.S. agencies believe that Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative and senior Ansar official who allegedly ran a terrorist camp in northern Iraq before the war, recently returned to Iraq to coordinate Ansar's activities. According to the Iraqi newspaper al-Azzaman, al-Zarqawi recently sent a letter to members of his tribe...