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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (294440)7/12/2006 1:45:27 PM
From: kech  Read Replies (4) of 1576635
 
Zarqawi wasn't in Al Qaeda until Feb 2004 when he applied for financial help from Bin Laden.

That is interesting. Powell says Zaraqawi was operating in Ansar Al Islam in Northern Iraq, in the Kurdish area. Hussein had him up their keeping his troublesome Kurds in line. Powell also thinks Zarqawi was in Baghdad getting medical help in May 2002.

cnn.com

A more detailed Zarqawi primer can be found here:

nationalreview.com

This was especially interesting:

Powell noted that Zarqawi's lieutenants operate the Ansar al-Islam camp in coordination with a senior Iraqi agent "in the most senior levels of the radical organization.
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