"Al Qaeda wants us out of Iraq because al Qaeda wants to use Iraq as an example of defeating freedom and democracy, " he said.
Al-Masri is an Egyptian who replaced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as head of al Qaeda in Iraq after al-Zarqawi's death in a U.S. airstrike last June.
Among these groups are the Abu Sayyaf movement in the Philippines, Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, al Qaeda in Iraq and al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula.
Take al Qaeda in Iraq and Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The Islamist groups may be on different continents, but they subscribe to similar ideals, inciting state-to-state rivalries.
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An important differentiator between al Qaeda in Iraq and al-Nusra is one of its tactics: Zarqawi made a practice of indiscriminately killing Iraqi civilians, effectively terrorizing the Iraqi population, especially the Shiite minority.
Whether he is in Iraq or Syria, allegations that he is collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists in Iraq make sense given that Absi was formerly allied with Abu Musab Zarkawi, who led al-Qaida forces in Iraq until he was killed by US forces in June 2006.
The most striking thing about the captured records, however, is that it appears almost every foreign fighter entering Iraq to join al Qaeda in Iraq came through Syria.
It is a worrisome fact that al Qaeda in Iraq is the only al Qaeda franchise ever to have actually used chemical weapons.
When the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed by a U.S. airstrike in 2006, Vause was the only international reporter who visited the scene.
We have also neutralized five media cells, detained the senior Iraqi leader of al Qaeda Iraq, and killed or captured nearly 100 other key leaders and some 2, 500 rank-and-file fighters.
Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri had criticized the Jordanian-born founder and leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for his killing of civilians and lack of political acumen to win public support.
Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability....We have solid reporting of senior level contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda going back a decade.
In a 21-minute audio clip posted on militant websites late Monday, al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said his group was providing half of its budget to the conflict in Syria and that al Nusra whose leaders are generally unknown won't have a separate leader.
The results should spell out the status of the Sunni Arab "Awakening" movement -- which opposes al Qaeda in Iraq -- and the popularity of the Shiite factions, such as those backing al-Maliki, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
Also, a regional anti-al Qaeda group, the Anbar Salvation Council has emerged which is a coalition touted by the United States and Iraq as a positive development in the war against al Qaeda in Iraq.
The Multi-National Corps-Iraq statement said that historically, al Qaeda in Iraq attacked large gatherings of people: funerals, markets and checkpoints.
After America's complete withdrawal from Iraq in December 2011, many al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) militants defeated in the surge were released from jail and reunited.
The authenticity of the al Qaeda in Iraq message posted on Monday and al Nusra's response on Wednesday couldn't be confirmed, but they were widely posted on militant websites.
Petreaus and Crocker explained that in general, the US and its allies face two distinct enemy forces in Iraq today - al-Qaida in Iraq and Iranianbacked Shi'ite forces.
The blasts were meant to target the security plan "of the government of fools inside the Green Zone, in preparation of the meeting of Arab tyrants in Baghdad, " said a statement from the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq.
Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq, are Sunni groups that have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
U.S. officials said the attack was probably targeting Awakening Councils, or Sons of Iraq -- Sunni groups who have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
The city went on high alert after the Islamic State of Iraq -- the insurgent umbrella group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq -- distributed leaflets to police in Samarra on Saturday, warning them that they have three days to "repent" or be killed.
So the first key change was a big sea change in the Sunnis' appreciation of the strategic reality of Iraq brought about by al-Qaeda and Iraq's mistake in bombing the mosque and bringing the militias under the war.
The 10-page document, a declassified summary of a more detailed National Intelligence Estimate, also concludes that Iraq's sectarian groups have yet to reconcile and al Qaida in Iraq is still able to conduct deadly and highly visible attacks.
U.S. intelligence agencies believe al Qaeda in Iraq has provided a steady stream of fighters to work with al Nusra.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Reports of fighting between al Qaeda in Iraq and Sunni militants surfaced Tuesday, the latest hints of rising tensions between the two allied groups.
Al Qaeda in Iraq said last month that it had merged with Syria's al Nusra Front, a hard-line jihadi group that has been the most powerful rebel force in the fight against Mr. Assad.
The councils, also known as Sons of Iraq, are mainly made up of former Sunni insurgents who turned against al Qaeda in Iraq.
Two members of the Sons of Iraq -- a group of former Sunni insurgents who have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq -- were killed in Dora, southern Baghdad.
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