Iraq war 'recruiting extremists'
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The war in Iraq has acted as a "recruiting sergeant" for Muslim extremists, a Ministry of Defence report says.
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An Iraqi militant said to be close to al Qaeda allegedly warned a British cleric: "Those who cure you will kill you." The warning -- or threat -- is now taking on new meaning after last week's UK terror plot, believed to have been hatched by health professionals.
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Recruiters working for U.S. contractors are hiring former Colombian soldiers - and even luring some active-duty ones - for security jobs in Iraq, says a former army officer who met with the recruiters.
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The risk in Iraq is not of civil war but that the country will end up under the control of extremists who &quot;run around chopping off people&#39;s heads,&quot; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in remarks broadcast on Saturday.
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Military waging distinctly different battles with Shiite extremists, Sunni fighters, al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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The US Army is seeking 500 Arabs and Kurds for a special mission.Those who sign up will be shipped off to villages with names like Tikrit and Fallujah, where they'll don dishdashas and head scarves and live in ...Comment
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British troops could be sent to some of Iraq's most volatile areas to back up US forces, the BBC learns.
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France has smashed an underground Islamic network recruiting French nationals to fight U.S. forces in Iraq, a source close to the dossier said Tuesday.
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Violent Muslim, Christian and Jewish extremists invoke the same rhetoric of "good" and "evil" and the best way to fight them is to tackle the problems that drive people to extremism, according to a report obtained by Reuters.
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Iraq believes the weekend massacre of  49 army recruits could have been an inside job, a source close  to interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told Reuters Monday.
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Extremists' rise can be traced in part to Bush policy, analysts say.
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Part of a classified intelligence report that says the war in Iraq has increased the terrorist threat against the United States has fueled calls by congressional Democrats for a new direction in the nation's war on terrorism.
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The U.S. military has evidence that Shiite extremists in Iraq are receiving arms and training from Iran, but it is not clear if the Iranian government is involved, a U.S. spokesman said Monday.
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Iraqi unrest poses a threat to the outside world as Islamist groups gain experience and contacts, the CIA warns.
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The conduct of the Iraq war fueled   Islamic fundamentalism across the globe and created more   enemies for the United States, a retired U.S. Army general who   served in the conflict said on Monday.
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CAIRO -- As many as 30,000 well-trained terrorists are actively operating throughout Iraq at the behest of former regime leaders based in Syria, Iraq's intelligence chief said in yesterday's edition of a pan-Arab newspaper.
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Jordan&#39;s King Abdullah II said in an interview published Tuesday that if elections are held in Iraq amid the current violence, extremists will be the victors, and he warned that