Blog Details

Iraq: Al-Qaeda 'Afghanistan Iraq' Base Discovered

An Iraqi security source has announced the discovery of an Al-Qaeda training base named "Afghanistan Iraq" in the Al-Anbar province.

The base has human skulls positioned at its entrance.

The source said that Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi, commander of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, had been in charge of all operations in this base up until his assassination in June 2006.

Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi, London, April 10, 2009

Share:
  • Print version
Recent MEMRI Blog Posts
About The MEMRI Blog

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Blog features brief news items from Arabic-, Farsi-, Urdu-, Pashtu- and Turkish-language news media sources.

Read on