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Friday, September 26, 2003


Bremer: US has taken 19 al Qaeda members prisoner inside Iraq
American adminsitrator of Iraq Paul Bremer said today at the Pentagon that the United States holds 19 members of al Qaeda prisoner inside Iraq.

"The number is 19 to be precise," Paul Bremer told reporters. The United States has said that foreign fighters moving into Iraq to oppose U.S.-led coalition forces there have become a major "terrorist" problem.
The US also holds a total of 248 unlawful combatants, aboutn half of whom are Syrians; many are Yemenis and Iranians. He gave no informatuion about the nationalities of the al Qaeda prisoners.

I wonder why the WaPo used scare quotes for "terrorist" problem. That is what Bremer called them, but a single-word quote is odd.

by Donald Sensing, 9/26/2003 05:10:57 PM. Permalink |  





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