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Ansar al-Islam
This is an alternative name for Jund-al-Islami. They're apparently getting funding from both Iraq and al-Qaeda. Their controller appears to be Abu Zubaydah, who was named as the operations chief for al-Qaeda last month. There's a good description of it here and the Guardian ran a piece on them in January. When last heard from, the Kurds had hit them hard, they were running out of money because Afghanistan had been whacked. I read someplace that stragglers were beginning to show up in Lebanon. Kevin...I like the sound of that. I'm feeling a Blogwatch on my horizon. :) Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-03-18 |
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