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...commander of a sister battalion was shown in a pro-resistance video called Confession of an ICDC Officer, sold in Fallujah. In the propaganda movie, obtained by TIME, the captive, Lieut. Colonel Khudeiyr Muslim Hussein, claimed that al-Marawi was killed because he had stopped cooperating with the mujahedin, or holy warriors. "Lately we noticed," said a visibly shaken Hussein, "he didn't have the will to work with the mujahedin." Marine commanders haven't heard from Hussein since...
Despite the risks, the Marines are determined to find Iraqis who are up to the job. About 2,000 Iraqis have been trained at India Base. But after the mujahedin overran two Iraqi battalions in early August, Collins was forced to piece together a new force from scratch. The recruits include the few remaining soldiers as well as deserters who are being invited back. (To emphasize the new start, the Americans have renamed the ICDC in Fallujah the Iraqi National Guard.) But it isn't easy bringing the Iraqis back. Although many are attracted by the money, and in some...
...have Osama hidden somewhere," the President said, "and we'll bring him out close to the American elections. We can't. We don't have any idea where Osama is." Al-Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, announced on a video released last week that holy warriors, or mujahedin, were winning the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pakistan has arrested more than 550 al-Qaeda suspects and delivered most to U.S. investigators, but Musharraf's own intelligence officers say that dozens of the virulent, well-organized cells are still out there?and they want the President dead...
...erratically, when it suits their needs. But insurgent sources tell TIME that elements in the resistance, especially jihadis who have ties to al-Qaeda, are pushing to unite the area's disparate militants under a single command. The insurgents are working through a loose assembly of leaders known as Mujahedin Shura, often translated as "supreme council of the mujahedin." This informal group, which meets occasionally to share intelligence and tactical tips, already has a defense minister, an army chief and an operations commander of sorts. At recent meetings, insurgent leaders--including Iraqi nationalists, Baathists and sundry Sunni extremists--have debated...
...closing days of the cold war, we must also recall his gutting of an already modest social safety net, pillaging of the national Treasury through irresponsible deficit spending and setting the stage for the Taliban's rise to power through his Administration's shortsighted support of the Afghan mujahedin. Christopher J. Hughey Neuilly-sur-Seine, France...