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UPI: al-Qaida of Mesopotamia fleeing Iraq for Africa
 Iraqi officials at the Ministry for National Security Affairs said documents uncovered in suspected al-Qaida holdouts in the Sunni areas of Baghdad 'prove these elements left Iraq for Somalia and Sudan.''Our intelligence information indicates the withdrawal of certain groups of al-Qaida from Iraq because of the military strikes,' Maj. Gen. Hussain Ali Kamal of the Iraqi Interior Ministry told Gulf News. 'I believe this is the beginning of the complete withdrawal of al-Qaida from Iraqi territory,' he said. Posted by: 3dc 2008-07-09 |
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