British security sources last night were quick to distance themselves from Colin Powell’s claim that the murder of the special branch officer Stephen Oake in Manchester was linked to a leading al-Qaida terrorist harboured by Iraq. Mr Powell said terrorist cells which had infiltrated western Europe, including Britain, had “graduated” from a camp in Afghanistan run by Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, who, he said, had close ties with Saddam Hussein’s regime. He said that according to a detainee named Abuwatia, Zarqawi’s network included “north African extremists” instructed to travel to Europe to conduct “poison and explosive attacks”. Full Story
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