A Master Terrorist’s First Days in Baghdad

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Before the U.S. entered Iraq.

9:45 PM, Apr 19, 2010 • By THOMAS JOSCELYN

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Lo and behold, we find that Abu Ayyub and other senior EIJ members relocated to Saddam’s Baghdad in 2002. And Abu Ayyub had plotted terror inside Iraq ever since.

Thomas Joscelyn is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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Abu Ayyub, Abu Ayyub al Masri, Abu Hamzah al-Muhajir, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Al Qaeda, AQI, CIA, Dawud Muhammad Khalil al Zawi, George Tenet, Iraq, Masri, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Zawahiri

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