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December 29, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,1-943868,00.html

We Follow Osama, Not Saddam, Say Iraqi Desert Guerillas

(London Times) - In Rutba, in Iraq's western desert, Muhammad and his Sunni guerilla cell say they have no intention of ending their fight against American forces. "The resistance is Islamic, we are ordered by God," he said. Far from the secular Baath party "dead-enders" being rounded up every day by American forces, they idolize Osama bin Laden, and they are well-organized. Muhammad said he has seen his group expand from five people to 95, all former soldiers from Saddam's huge conscript army. "We don't know of any Baathists fighting. They are all at home," he said.

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