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NEWSWEEK: Taliban Fighters Say Osama Bin Laden Is Likely to Capitalize On Saddam Hussein's Capture, Using It to Strengthen Anti-U.S. Resistance in Iraq; Sources Say U.S. Manhunting Teams Have Come Close to Finding Bin Laden on Several Occasions.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Taliban fighters tell Newsweek that Osama bin Laden will likely capitalize on Saddam Hussein's humiliating arrest-seeing it as a chance to radicalize and Islamize the anti-U.S resistance in Iraq. They say Saddam's capture has not changed bin Laden's plans-reported recently in Newsweek-to shift anti-American forces from Afghanistan to Iraq, Turkey and the Mideast. "The arrest of Saddam will have a positive affect on the anti-U.S. jihad and Qaeda operations in Iraq," says Rahman Hotaki, a Taliban official who works with Qaeda fighters in Waziristan on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. "Many Iraqis hated Saddam, so they didn't join the fight. Now ...

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