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"Hundreds" of al Qaida operatives based in Afghanistan gained sanctuary in Iraq and Iran after the Taliban fell in Dec. 2001, according to legendary New York City detective-turned-international security expert Bo Dietl. Dietl first revealed the startling tidbit on Don Imus's Monday morning radio broadcast, sourcing an active duty Navy Seal who told him that U.S. Special Forces had tracked "hundreds of al Qaida who had fled to Iraq." We tracked Dietl down a few hours later and he elaborated on what the unnamed Navy Seal said. "He starts to tell me about how, right after 9/11, they took them...