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To: NickSE who wrote (101257)	6/12/2003 12:03:17 PM
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U.S. troops arrest group in Iraq with al-Qaida link columbiatribune.com .....The officials said those arrested included several suspected associates of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Palestinian described by the Bush administration as "an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida lieutenants." The group also included suspected members of Ansar al Islam, or Partisans of Islam, a Kurdish Islamic extremist group, the officials said. Officials provided no further details of the arrests, but said there’s evidence that Zarqawi’s group directed terrorist operations in the Middle East and Western Europe. The intelligence officials said they believe the group in the Iraqi capital oversaw a plot in London to manufacture ricin, a deadly toxin made from castor beans; plotted the murder in October of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan; and was planning other terrorist attacks in Western Europe. The intelligence officials said Saddam’s regime apparently allowed Zarqawi’s group to operate with impunity, in much the same way that administration officials charge that senior al-Qaida leaders have been directing terrorist operations from sanctuary in neighboring Iran....