July 8, 2008 (BAGHDAD) – Al-Qaeda elements who fought against the US troops in Iraq are heading to Sudan and Somalia, a security source told the Gulf News.

- Osama bin Laden
Due to the intensity of latest military strikes launched against the terror organization by the US and Iraqi troops they escaped through the borders with Syria and Iran to Sudan and Somalia, the daily reported.
A source at Iraqi Ministry of National Security said that documents and letters found in hideouts of "some elements of Al Qaida" during search operations in Sunni suburbs in Baghdad, which were previously under the control of Al Qaida, "prove these elements left Iraq for Somalia and Sudan".
The information could not be confirmed by independent sources.
Despite his criticism to the Sudanese government, Bin Laden said that the United States and Britain were seeking to dismember Sudan and urged his followers to fight them in Darfur, calling the United Nations an "infidel body" and a U.S. tool. "I call on the mujahideen and their supporters in Sudan ... and the Arabian peninsula to prepare ... to wage a long-term war against the Crusaders in western Sudan," bin Laden said on April 24, 2006.
On September 20, 2007, Al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri urged Sudanese Muslims in a video posted on Thursday to fight a force of African Union and U.N. peacekeepers set to deploy to Sudan’s volatile western region of Darfur.
The Islamist government in Khartoum sheltered Bin Laden between 1991 and 1996 before requesting him to leave the country to Afghanistan.
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