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September 11, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/10/sprj.irq.border.watch/index.html

U.S. May Now Face al-Qaeda in Iraq

(CNN) - From the heights of a border lookout post, U.S. soldiers use high-powered binoculars to scan Syrian fields for foreign fighters trying to sneak into Iraq. Occasionally, they fire warning shots over the heads of anyone illegally approaching the barbed wire fence separating the nations. U.S. commanders in the Iraqi border town of Al Qaim, barely a mile from Syria, say four foreign fighters who they believed had al-Qaeda training were captured in recent weeks. Immediately afterward, they say, attacks on U.S. forces declined and were less sophisticated - leaving them no doubt that foreign fighters have been attacking them.

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