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In this Special Analysis feature, Dan Darling demonstrates yet again why the CIA needs to hire him, as he takes us behind the scenes for a look at The New Al-Qaeda: the players, the setbacks, and the strategies: "2003 has not been a good year so far by al-Qaeda. In the course of less than six months, key members of their military committee have been captured or killed as a result of the US-led campaign against terrorism. Their two biggest losses so far this year include that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the head of their military committee, and Hanbali, the...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Militia defector claims Baghdad trained Al-Qaeda fighters in chemical warfare Gwynne Roberts in Ankara Sunday Times (London); Overseas news; News; 23 July 14, 2002, Sunday A FORMER colonel in Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen, one of Iraq's most brutal militias, has claimed that he trained with fighters from Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terrorist network in secret camps near Baghdad. The defector, who fled to Turkey three years ago, says that as long ago as 1997 and 1998, Islamic extremists were being taught how to use...