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...leading role in the Sunni insurgency. But, over the past week, Sunni insurgents have expressed support for Sadr, who has called for a rebellion by all sects, and Sunni crowds in Baghdad marched alongside Sadr supporters. That spectacle won't please the Qaeda-friendly Iraq-based Jordanian terrorist Musab al-Zarqawi, who has called on Sunnis to kill Shiites, but other Sunni insurgent commanders presumably recognize the usefulness of a Shiite uprising that forces the Coalition to spread its forces...
...condemning the attacks and urging Iraqis against responding to sectarian provocations. Despite deep differences, they share a common interest in keeping the transition process on track, and most sought to put the blame for Tuesday's massacre on foreign elements, such as the al-Qaeda-linked Jordanian fugitive Musab al-Zarqawi, dedicated to fomenting a civil war. The message: Don't fall into this bloody trap being laid by those who don't have Iraq's interests at heart...
...instincts of the Arab majority; but among the Arabs the minority Sunni who have traditionally ruled Iraq appear unwilling to submit to the domination of the Shiite majority that direct democracy would bring. The CPA has used the capture of a document allegedly written by an al-Qaeda associate, Musab al-Zarqawi, to paint the danger of civil war as arising primarily from a diabolical al-Qaeda strategy, but Brahimi warned that the Iraqis were quite capable of getting there by themselves. "Civil wars do not happen because a person makes a decision, 'Today, I'm going to start...
...Besides the possibility of the Prague encounter, the claim of an Iraq-bin Laden link rest on three pillars: The fact that "bin Laden associate" Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who runs the Islamist terror network suspected of killing a U.S. diplomat in Jordan, had taken shelter in Baghdad after being wounded in Afghanistan; The fact that the Kurdish Islamist group attacking mainstream pro-U.S. Kurdish groups in northeastern Iraq had received cash and training from al-Qaeda; and Iraqi records show that an Iraqi emissary had held a meeting or meetings with bin Laden representatives in Afghanistan...
Officials are also talking up the presence of al-Qaeda bigwigs in Baghdad. The only one identified so far is a chemical-weapons operative named Abu Musab Zarqawi, who stopped in the Iraqi capital last summer to have his leg amputated after he was wounded in Afghanistan. Iraq let him escape when Jordan sought his extradition. Since then, he has been fingered for involvement in the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan and in the London ricin plot. A senior Administration source claims that Zarqawi met with Saddam's lieutenants in an effort to acquire chemical weapons...