Report: Qaeda Shifting to Iraq from Afghanistan

[Khephra]

Report: Qaeda Shifting to Iraq from Afghanistan
Sun December 7, 2003 03:34 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda told the Taliban last month it planned to divert a large number of anti-American fighters from Afghanistan to Iraq and cut by half funding to Afghan fighter groups, Newsweek reported on Sunday.
Three representatives of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden allegedly met with two emissaries from Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in the Afghan mountains of Khost province near the Pakistan border in mid-November, the magazine said.

Newsweek cited Taliban sources as saying that bin Laden ordered the shift of resources away from Afghanistan to Iraq because he saw it as an opportunity for killing Americans and their allies in Iraq and neighboring countries such as Turkey.

Asked about the report, a U.S. intelligence official told Reuters there did not appear to be a sizable reallocation going on. "There is no sign of significant shifts in that regard," the official said on condition of anonymity.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3951356

[cthrumatrix]

1. sure they use the CIA jumbo jet to shift the "terra" where needed....

who in the hell sits around and makes up this crap.

We don't have inttelligence in Iraq...but know their travel plans?

[Racenut20]

2. I would guess it is "deep cover"

From the Pentagon and White House to keep the words, terra, etc. in the voters minds until after the election.

[NNN0LHI]

3. I guess that is one way to get them out of Afghanistan. Whoda thunk? n/t

[mazzarro]

4. For an organization that the world is having problem containing

we sure do have detailed information about their inner workings and plans! Hmmmmmmmmm, may I hazard a guess that this is one of the on-going titillating bits of "terra" stories needed to keep the US populace in line?

[bemildred]

5. What bullshit.