WAR: Al-Zarqawis Group in Iraq Changes Name, page 1
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Topic started on 19-10-2004 @ 08:30 PM by FredT
Just days after swearing allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida, the Tawhid and Jihad, have changed their name. The two groups led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world with a $25 million dollar bounty on his head are now known as al-Qaida of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers.




abcnews.go.com
CAIRO, Egypt Oct. 19, 2004 — Tawhid and Jihad, the Iraqi militant group of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, apparently has changed its name two days after announcing its merger with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization.

An Internet statement released Tuesday under the purported new name, al-Qaida of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers, claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.S. military convoy west of the Iraqi city of Fallujah the same day. The two rivers in the new name refers to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Iraq.

Witnesses in Habaniyah, west of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, reported seeing three American Humvees burning, but the U.S. military didn't comment on the alleged attack.

"A lion from the martyrdom brigades … plowed into an American convoy that had entered Habaniyah," said the statement. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified.




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The reference is to the two main rivers in Iraq, the Euphrates and Tigris. The newly named group has claimed responsibility for attacking a U.S. military convoy near the city of Falluja. While U.S. military had no comment on the incident witnesses reported 3 HUMVEES burning.
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