August 14, 2003

Al-Qaida's calling card

By Lucy Mohl Amid headlines that U.S. security agencies have stung, and otherwise pre-empted potential terror attacks, comes a disturbing sign: Al Qaida has apparently (and literally) left a calling card for American forces in Iraq. According to the website Middle East Online, which carries news and photos of the cards left at the scene of a Fallujah firefight on Wednesday: Senior US officials, both in the military and the civilian coalition struggling to rebuild Iraq, have warned that the extremist foot soldiers and financiers of Osama bin Laden are gravitating here. The article details a credible trail to suggest that Ansar al-Islam, a group related to Al Qaida, has infiltrated Iraq from Iran, and has been involved in both Iraqi uprisings against U.S. forces and the bombing of Jordan's Baghdad embassy August 7th, that killed 14 people.

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