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Roughly 300 al Qaeda-Linked Kurdish Militants Are Holed Up in Iranian Border Towns
The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^
| 10-06-03
| NEWSWEEK
Posted on 11/28/2003 3:23:58 PM PST by nuconvert
NEWSWEEK: Roughly 300 Qaeda-Linked Kurdish Militants Are Holed Up in Iranian Border Towns; Training New Recruits for Raids Into Iraq
Press Release
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. and Kurdish security officials tell Newsweek that roughly 300 militants of al Qaeda-linked Kurdish group, Ansar Al-Islam, are holed up in small Iranian towns along the border with Iraq. The group seems to be recruiting new members in Baramawa, a Kurdish refugee camp inside Iran, reports Special Correspondent Babak Dehghanpisheh in the October 13 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, October 6). (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031005/NYSU003 ) For 18 months Ansar had waged a fratricidal jihad against its secular Kurdish neighbors instead of helping them fight Saddam Hussein. After the U.S. assault on its enclave last March, the group seemed to vanish, and though Tehran insists that none of Ansar's 900 or so fighters were allowed into Iran, many of the group's survivors tell Newsweek they did indeed flee there and are now sneaking back across the border to continue their battle against the West.
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:23:58 PM PST
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:24:09 PM PST
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
Time for a little cross border incursion I would think.
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:27:45 PM PST
by
Az Joe
To: nuconvert
OK IRAN,
EXPELL THEM ALL INTO OUR HANDS WITHIN 24 HOURS
Or, your nuke plants AND your border towns will be glass.
Appeasing idiots of the world, wise up.
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:30:39 PM PST
by
Quix
(WORK NOW to defeat one personal network friend, relative, associate's liberal idiocy now, warmly)
To: Quix
Interesting article in light of Mansoor Ijaz report.
Article is dated Oct6.
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:32:56 PM PST
by
nuconvert
To: Az Joe
A MOAB would do nicely.
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:33:59 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: nuconvert
sounds like an excellent opportunity for our new friend....MOAB.
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:46:12 PM PST
by
Khurkris
(Ranger On...)
To: nuconvert
... roughly 300 militants of al Qaeda-linked Kurdish group, Ansar Al-Islam, are holed up in small Iranian towns along the border with Iraq. Too Bad the end result can't go something like this ...
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posted on
11/28/2003 3:57:16 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: expatpat
I agree. Wait for them to cross and let them meet MR MOAB !!!!!
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posted on
11/28/2003 4:49:41 PM PST
by
Pedrobud
(CNN sucks !!)
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