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Iran replaces Al-Qaeda as chief US concern in Iraq
AFP
April 13, 2008
Recent violence in Basra has convinced the administration of President George W. Bush that Iran and not Al-Qaeda is now the primary threat to US interests in Iraq, The Washington Post said Saturday.
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Citing unnamed senior US officials, the newspaper said this view has sparked a broad reassessment of Washington’s policy in the region and prompted Defense Secretary Robert Gates to speak about Tehran’s “malign” influence there.
During their Washington visit, General David Petraeus, the top US military commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker barely mentioned Al-Qaeda in Iraq but spoke extensively of Iran, the paper said.
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