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Article: Al-Qaida determined to open a new front in Iraq
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2003
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BERLIN -- Two years after the attacks on the United States, Osama
bin Laden's leadership cadre has been isolated and weakened and is
increasingly reliant on the violent actions of local radicals around
the world to maintain its profile. But the al-Qaida network is
determined to open a new front in Iraq to sustain itself as the
vanguard of radical Islamic groups fighting holy war, according to
European, American and Arab intelligence sources.
The turn toward Iraq was made in February, as U.S. forces were
preparing to attack, the sources said. Two seasoned operatives met at
a safe house in eastern Iran. One of them was Mohammed Ibrahim
Makawi, the military chief of al-Qaida, who is better ...