al-Qaida Helping Iraq Rebels, Leader Says

al-Qaida Helping Iraq Rebels, Leader Says
By RAWYA RAGEH, Associated Press Writer

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Al-Qaida's alleged leader in Saudi Arabia said in an Internet statement that the militant network was helping insurgents who are battling occupation forces in Iraq.

In the statement that surfaced Friday on an al-Qaida-linked online periodical, Abdulaziz Issa Abdul-Mohsin al-Moqrin said al-Qaida is in close contact with fighters in Iraq.

"By our jihad in the Arab peninsula, we are serving Iraq's cause and helping the mujahedeen (fighters) there, whom we are in close contact with," he said. "There is mutual support between the two of us and we are working on confusing the American enemy."

It was not immediately possible to verify the statement's authenticity.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040514/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480

the run. How in the hell are they providing military support in a foreign land?

NOTE TO MIS-ADMINISTRATION:

We are not the fools you think we are. Stop trying to link Iraq to AQ.


Jay

America's attempts to demonize the "rebels" of Iraq, apparently. Al Qaeda is very handy that way...