Bin Laden told Zarqawi to plan attacks in the US: US official

Agence France-Presse (excerpt) ^ | May 22, 2007

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden told the group's Iraq head Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to plan attacks inside the United States before Zarqawi was killed in a US air strike last year, a senior US official said Tuesday.

Frances Townsend, President George W. Bush's homeland security advisor, made the revelation to defend Washington's argument that it is fighting in Iraq to prevent the country from becoming a new "sanctuary" for Al-Qaeda.

The bin Laden-Zarqawi link was made in secret documents that were declassified Tuesday amid pressure from Democratic lawmakers for US troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq.

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[Jorge]

Zarqawi plan attacks.
Zarqawi dead.

[sheik yerbouty]

Buzkashi anyone?

[goodnesswins]

THIS is news?