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al Qaeda in Iraq  

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  • al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI, aka al Qaeda in Mesopotamia; al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers) is an Iraqi Sunni insurgent group led by foreign leaders with anti-Shiite beliefs, extreme tactics, and connections to al Qaeda's transnational terrorist network. It was formed in October 2004 by Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a radical Jordanian Islamist who had operated a guerrilla training camp in Herat, Afghanistan, before the demise of the Taliban regime in 2001. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; al Qaeda in Iraq]

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