US soldiers discover Zarqawi 'training centre' in Fallujah
U.S. soldier dumps an armful of small missiles found inside a building believed to be the headquarters of insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
It's possible that this SUV in the purported Zarqawi compound in Fallujah may have been the next suicide bomb vehicle.
A U.S. Marine forces an Iraqi detainee to lie down following his arrest in Falluja, November 18, 2004. The Iraqi government and U.S. commanders declared their offensive on rebel-held Falluja a success on Thursday but U.S. troops still faced danger.
U.S. Marine Sergeant Javier Jimenez from the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance of Charlie Company, guides a handcuffed Iraqi detainee following his arrest on a highway in the war-torn city of Falluja, November 18, 2004
Here's what the terrorists in Fallujah were seeing today.
US soldiers discover Zarqawi 'training centre' in Fallujah
FOREIGN STAFF
US TROOPS sweeping through Fallujah believe they have found a "training centre" for the terrorist group run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Inside the building, soldiers found documents, notebooks, old computers, photographs, flight patterns for aircraft - along with instructions on how to shoot them down - and copies of the Koran.
There were also two letters inside the house, one from al-Qaeda-linked Zarqawi giving instructions to two of his lieutenants in the region. Another sought money and help from the terrorist leader.
In video footage shot by an embedded CNN crew, soldiers were shown walking through an imposing building with a large sign in Arabic on the wall reading "Al Qaeda Organisation" and "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger".
Zarqawi’s group, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, is considered the deadliest terrorist network in the country, held responsible for a string of car bombings and gruesome kidnappings, and the beheadings of foreign hostages, including Ken Bigley, from Liverpool.
In a separate raid yesterday, troops discovered a workshop in Fallujah’s industrial section in which a 4x4 vehicle with a Texas registration sticker was being converted into a car bomb.
It was parked in a warehouse surrounded by several bags of sodium nitrate, used in making explosives. The vehicle had no licence plate, but some 15 licence plates were inside.
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1332542004
Military Believes Zarqawi Headquarters Found
Army Major Calls Fallujah Street 'One-Stop Shop for Terrorists'
By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 18, 2004; 9:08 AM
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 18 -- U.S. soldiers discovered a house in southern Fallujah on Thursday believed to be a main headquarters for Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of an insurgent network responsible for bombings, kidnappings and beheadings across Iraq.
A mural in the house indicated that it belonged to Zarqawi's organization.
In the house, the soldiers found letters reportedly written by Zarqawi to his lieutenants, medical supplies from the U.S. Agency for International Development and boxes of ammunition from the Chinese and Jordanian armies.
Nearby were medical supplies from the International Red Cross.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59519-2004Nov18.html
