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US doubles Zarqawi bounty
Isnât he worth more than Binny now?The U.S. military on Wednesday doubled its bounty for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an Al Qaeda-linked Jordanian who officials suspect has been trying to spark an Iraqi civil war. American officials think al-Zarqawi was probably behind the Feb. 1 double attack on Kurdish political parties in Irbil, in which explosive-strapped bombers killed 109 people celebrating the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. On Tuesday and Wednesday, vehicle bombings killed up to 99 people in Iskandariyah and Baghdad. Both attacks targeted Iraqis working with the coalition. "If I could draw on a relationship to his memo and also these attacks ... Yes, they are related," Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr., commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, said Wednesday. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-02-11 |
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