Thursday, June 12, 2008

Michael Ware reports: Al Qaeda in Iraq

One of the world's top war reporters, Michael Ware, reports on AQI based on details centered around the capture of a huge cache of documents in Anbar province.

Al Qaeda's folder on Operation Desert Shield expresses the depth, structure and measure of its military command. It is perhaps the most compelling illustration of how al Qaeda works.

Yet the Desert Shield folder is but one found among the thousands of pages of records, letters, lists and hundreds of videos held in the headquarters of al Qaeda's security prince for Anbar province, a man referred to in secret correspondence as Faris Abu Azzam.

(CNN)

Ware reports on an AQI with a surprisingly strong command structure as of 2006, and an organization aware that its severe treatment of Iraqis spelled public relations trouble.


If Al Qaida is in Iraq when Barack Obama is president of the United States, will he go after them?

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