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  • Letter Shows Terrorists' 'Desperation' In Iraq, General Says

    02/09/2004 10:21:47 AM PST · by Calpernia · 5 replies · 224+ views
    American Forces Press Service ^ | Feb. 9, 2004 | By Gerry J. Gilmore
    A suspected al Qaeda operative's urging of starting a religious civil war in Iraq indicates that terrorists are increasingly uneasy over pro-coalition developments in that country, senior U.S. officials said in Baghdad today. Commenting on an article that appeared in today's New York Times, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7, acknowledged to reporters that coalition forces had intercepted a courier and confiscated a letter written by Abu Musab al Zarquwi, a known terrorist with suspected links to al Qaeda. The author of the 17-page letter writes about conducting 25 anti-coalition operations since...