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Article: Mombasa bombing reveals possible links between al-Qaeda and Hizbollah terrorists For years, the idea of co-operation between Sunni and Shi'ite-backed terrorist groups in the Middle East and Africa was seen as unlikely. Now Con Coughlin reports on evidence that a new alliance has formed
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- December 8, 2002
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DISTURBING NEW evidence that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda
organisation has formed an alliance with the Iranian-backed Hizbollah
militia has emerged in the wake of the Mombasa terrorist attacks.
Investigators looking into the bombing of the Paradise Hotel,
which killed 16 people and injured 80, and the failed attempt to
shoot down an Israeli charter jet, have uncovered a number of clues
that suggest al-Qaeda is working with the Lebanon-based Hizbollah
militia to attack American and Israeli targets throughout the world.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Hizbollah, which is trained and
funded by Teheran, was responsible for a number of devastating
terrorist attacks including the 1983 suicide ...