Fallujah safehouse thought to be former Zarqawi hideout

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- U.S. soldiers combing through the wreckage of Fallujah found a house Thursday that they believe may have been used by the network of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the insurgent leader who was a prime target of the assault on the rebel city. The discovery of the apparent safehouse for al-Za...

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Published inKnight Ridder Tribune News Service p. 1
Main Author Liz Sly and James Janega
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 18.11.2004
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Johnson, David
Sattler, John
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Summary:FALLUJAH, Iraq -- U.S. soldiers combing through the wreckage of Fallujah found a house Thursday that they believe may have been used by the network of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the insurgent leader who was a prime target of the assault on the rebel city. The discovery of the apparent safehouse for al-Zarqawi would confirm something U.S. forces had asserted for many months: that al- Zarqawi was using Fallujah as a base for his campaign of kidnappings, beheadings and car-bombings. Iraqi government officials said earlier this week that they believed al-Zarqawi had already escaped Fallujah, perhaps before the much-publicized offensive began. He is believed to have fled with a prominent Fallujah cleric and insurgency leader, Abdullah Janabi.