This Friday report in The Scotsman seems to be getting limited play in the U.S., with the exception of "right-wing" media like the New York Post and Fox News. It has been circulating in Commonwealth sources. Hope the Brits can get their hands on these bad guys.
Captured Iraqi soldiers have told British interrogators that al-Qaeda terrorists are fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein’s forces against allied troops near Basra. At least a dozen members of Osama bin Laden’s network are in the town of Az Zubayr, where they are co-ordinating grenade and gun attacks on coalition positions, according to the Iraqi prisoners of war.
A senior British military source inside Iraq said last night: "The information we have received from PoWs today is that an al-Qaeda cell may be operating in Az Zubayr. There are possibly around a dozen of them and that is obviously a matter of concern to us."
Posted by Alan at March 29, 2003 09:45 PM