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Al Qaeda Q&A
Comprehensive Q&A on the terrorist organization.
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Captives Deny Qaeda Worked With Baghdad
NYTimes.com
Two of the highest-ranking leaders of Al Qaeda in American custody have told the C.I.A. in separate interrogations that the terrorist organization did not work jointly with the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein, according to several intelligence officials.
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Resentful West Spurned Sudan's Key Terror Files
The Observer
Security chiefs on both sides of the Atlantic repeatedly turned down a vast intelligence database on Osama bin Laden and more than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda terrorist network in the years leading up to the 11 September attacks.
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Saddam’s Surrogates
By Michael Isikoffand Mark Hosenball
Newsweek, Updated: 2:11 p.m. ET Oct. 27, 2004
Synopsis: Who are the Iraqi Insurgents?
(1) Zarqawi's 300 al Qaeda, (2) Saddam's 10,000 Mukhabarat fighters.
According to U.S. defense sources, the rate at which "improvised explosive devices" are being planted around Iraq every day by insurgents has nearly doubled since last spring. As of May and June, sources say, the rate of bombs being planted ran at about 500 per month. Today, the figure is running at just under 1,000 per month.
U.S. intelligence analysts believe Zarqawi's group consists of a hard core of only 200 or 300 fighters, perhaps an equal number of serious supporters, and another 1,000 or 2,000 who might be willing to give active fighters food, shelter or other logistical support.
A much larger network of former Saddam loyalists—directed by former leaders of Saddam's feared intelligence service, the Mukhabarat—may be playing an even larger role. According to U.S. and British intelligence sources, the former Baathists consists of as many as 8,000 to 10,000 active fighters and at least that number of tacit sympathizers or logistical supporters.
Nearly 380 tons of powerful explosives has disappeared from a Iraqi munitions stockpile called Al Qaqaa.. The Bush campaign argues that the explosives may have been removed by Saddam before American troops arrived at the complex, but they did not check when they arrived and so no one knows. United Nations officials tell NEWSWEEK that as many as 10,000 other conventional-arms dumps around Iraq are believed to have been looted after the U.S. invasion, the officials say.
The looting of conventional-arms depots means that Zarqawi and the ex-Baathists are not unlikely to run out of weapons any time soon.
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