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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1782653,00.html
Zarqawi's Dark Forces Riding High on a Tide of Blood
(Times-UK) Richard Beeston - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's tactics in Iraq include the mass murder of Shia civilians, beheading Western hostages, and assassinating government officials. He is responsible for making large areas of central Iraq ungovernable. His insurgent campaign has successfully challenged the might of the U.S. military. Al-Zarqawi's group is the richest, best organized, best armed, and most powerful insurgent force in Iraq, with thousands of volunteers, including some from around the Middle East and beyond, prepared to fight and die for their cause. His slick propaganda department can record a suicide attack, release it within an hour on the Internet, and relay it into the homes of Muslim sympathizers around the world. Experts fear that al-Zarqawi intends to spread his campaign across the Middle East, into Europe, and even into America. Jean-Charles Brisard, the author of Zarqawi: The New Face of al-Qaeda, said that last month's failed rocket attacks by al-Zarqawi's fighters against U.S. warships docked at the Jordanian port of Aqaba should serve as a warning. "I believe that his fight will not stop in Iraq. There is intelligence that his people were traveling in Europe a few weeks ago."