Calling on Bin Laden
As if the Iraqi insurgency situation wasn't bad enough, now an al-Qaida chapter based in Iraq is causing additional trouble with homegrown rebel groups -- and calling on Osama bin Laden for assistance.
As if the Iraqi insurgency situation wasn’t bad enough, now an al-Qaida chapter based in Iraq is causing additional trouble with homegrown rebel groups — and calling on Osama bin Laden for assistance.
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A Sunni insurgent group in Iraq has called on Osama Bin Laden to exert more control over al-Qaeda members there.
Members of al-Qaeda in Iraq were killing insurgents from other groups which did not support their ideals, said the Islamic Army of Iraq.
In its statement, it called on al-Qaeda to review its behaviour in the country.
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