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To: kech who wrote (294446)	7/12/2006 2:10:58 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577937

"Guess you didn't read the article:" Guess you didn't either. Before the invasion of Iraq, Zarqawi was apparently not a member of the Al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden. He was, rather, the leader of an Islamic militant group loosely affiliated with Al-Qaeda. Zarqawi's group received funding from Osama bin Laden but pursued "a largely distinct, if occasionally overlapping agenda," according to The Washington Post. The Post article also discloses this revealing episode: In the fall of 2001, according to German telephone wiretaps, Zarqawi grew angry when members of his Monotheism and Jihad cell in Germany told him they were also raising money for al Qaeda's local leadership. "If something should come from their side, simply do not accept it," Zarqawi told one of his followers, according to a recorded conversation that was played this month at a trial of four alleged Zarqawi operatives in Duesseldorf. "Just forget it!" [1] More on Zarqawi's "arm's-length relationship with al-Qaeda" before the invasion can be seen here and here.