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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 06:36 PM
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18. Opening tidbit from The Atlantic
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 06:37 PM by SpiralHawk
The Atlantic Monthly | July/August 2006

The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

How a video-store clerk and small-time crook reinvented himself as America’s nemesis in Iraq

by Mary Anne Weaver

O n a cold and blustery evening in December 1989, Huthaifa Azzam, the teenage son of the legendary Jordanian-Palestinian mujahideen leader Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, went to the airport in Peshawar, Pakistan, to welcome a group of young men. All were new recruits, largely from Jordan, and they had come to fight in a fratricidal civil war in neighboring Afghanistan—an outgrowth of the CIA-financed jihad of the 1980s against the Soviet occupation there.

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