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Date Posted: 18:41:46 03/29/03 Sat
Author: ZEKE
Author Host/IP: 65.70.221.251
Subject: If it is Al Qaeda - does the US "drop the gloves"
In reply to: Ed Cohen 's message, "Al Qaeda ..." on 17:50:34 03/29/03 Sat

>Saturday, March 29, 2003
>By Bill Sanderson
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>Al Qaeda fighters may be in southern Iraq,
>coordinating grenade and gun attacks on British forces
>in a town near Basra, it was reported last night.
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>"The information we have received from POWs today is
>that an Al Qaeda cell may be operating in Az Zubayr.
>There are possibly around a dozen of them," a British
>military source in Iraq told a reporter for The
>Scotsman.
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>British troops were believed to be planning a military
>strike on the Al Qaeda hideout, the newspaper said.
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>If the prisoners� reports are true, they may provide a
>concrete link between Saddam Hussein�s regime and the
>terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center.
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>Several links between Al Qaeda and Iraq have been
>reported previously:
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>-- In northern Iraq, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group
>called Ansar al-Islam is allegedly plotting suicide
>attacks on U.S. forces and has allegedly experimented
>with chemical weapons.
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>Two members of an Afghanistan-based Al Qaeda cell were
>killed this week in a shootout between U.S. and Ansar
>al-Islam forces, and the group�s base also has been
>bombed.
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>Reports say Ansar al-Islam has about 600 members --
>and it may be getting reinforcements from Al Qaeda
>cells in Chechnya and other regions, sources told The
>Post earlier this week.
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>The group also is blamed for a suicide bombing
>Saturday that killed an Australian TV cameraman.
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>-- Two dozen "Al Qaeda affiliates" followed terrorist
>Abu Mussab al Zarqawi when he sought medical treatment
>in Baghdad, and remained there afterward, Secretary of
>State Colin Powell told the United Nations last month.
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>-- In the Philippines, a terrorist with the Abu Sayyaf
>Muslim extremist group -- believed to be loosely
>affiliated with Al Qaeda -- allegedly telephoned an
>Iraqi diplomat in Manila last year with the same cell
>phone used to trigger a bomb attack.
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>For more news, entertainment and sports coverage,
>click here for NYPost.com.
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