Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda - Times Online
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A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist
force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.
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Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister, who has also led a crackdown on the
Shi’ite Mahdi Army in Basra and Baghdad in recent months, claimed yesterday
that his government had “defeated” terrorism.
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The number of foreign fighters coming over the border from Syria to bolster
Al-Qaeda’s numbers is thought to have declined to as few as 20 a month,
compared with 120 a month at its peak
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