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.
"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.
" It purports to "show that in the case of Iraq's relationship with al Qaeda, intelligence was exaggerated to support Administration policy aims primarily by the Feith policy office, which was determined to find a strong connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, rather than by the IC, which was consistently dubious of such a connection.
Al-Jayousi admitted that he was trained in Iraq by al Qaeda deputy Abu Musab al-Zarqawi sometime after the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
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.
The U.S. military and Iraq back al-Sadr's commitment to stop attacks by his followers.
Credible information indicates that Iraq and al Qaeda have discussed safe haven and reciprocal nonaggression.
They were not showing policy makers reports that justified concern about ties between Iraq and al Qaeda.
In the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, Bush had made stronger statements alleging cooperation between Iraq and al Qaeda.
Feith: No, as I told you, the main thing that the briefing of this team produced was not this Iraq-al Qaeda connection.
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Rather we said that the CIA's analysts were not giving serious, professional attention to information about ties between Iraq and al Qaeda.
It did not confine its review to Iraq or al Qaeda.
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The Sadr City fighting reflects the intra-Shiite power struggle in Iraq between Iraqi security forces dominated by the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.
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.
In Iraq Muqtada al-Sadr, a fiery mullah, has the power to veto decisions he dislikes and has succeeded in enforcing the removal of all American troops by the end of the year.
In exchange, al-Sadr said he wants the majority of coalition forces to leave the holy city, followed by a "broad discussion" about the future of his Mehdi Army in Iraq, al-Rubaie said.
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While Western liberals may deny any connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, bin Laden and the rest of the Arab world see it clearly and would advertise a U.S. withdrawal as his victory.
This was several weeks after I took my staff to meet with Mr. Tenet and two-dozen or so CIA analysts to challenge the quality of the agency's work on Iraq and al Qaeda.
In Iraq, al Qaeda (whose animosity toward Shiite Muslims almost matches its hatred of the West) has already shown it will take drastic steps to inflame Sunni-Shiite tensions by attacking shrines and religious festivals.
CIA's files for links between Iraq and al-Qaeda.
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"There have been reports that contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda also occurred after bin Laden had returned to Afghanistan, but they do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship, " the report said.
The strong case (stronger too than the unproven link between Iraq and al-Qaeda) is that letting a Saddam get his hands on a biological or nuclear bomb is simply too big a danger to the world.
After interviewing intelligence analysts involved in the drafting of a June 2002 agency paper, which examined possible links between Iraq and al-Qaeda, the ombudsman found that about half a dozen spooks complained of coming under intense pressure from officials.
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This effort infuriated the Central Intelligence Agency because it questioned whether the CIA and the rest of the U.S. intelligence community were being blinded in their assessment of ties between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda due to a working assumption that secular Baathists and Islamofascist terrorists would not cooperate against their common foe: us.
It was a global it was a global exercise, even though this particular report that briefing, I should say, that was prepared and given to the CIA focused on Iraq and al Qaeda because, as I said, that kind of fell out incidentally from the work that they were doing on global terrorist networks.
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It was a global -- it was a global exercise, even though this particular report that -- briefing, I should say, that was prepared and given to the CIA focused on Iraq and al Qaeda because, as I said, that kind of fell out incidentally from the work that they were doing on global terrorist networks.
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