A letter captured on June 7, 2006 from an Al-Qa’ida safe house in Iraq sheds new light on the friction between Al-Qa`ida’s senior leadership and al-Qa`ida’s commanders in Iraq over the appropriate use of violence. Based on the contents of the letter the author seems to be a highly placed Al-Qa`ida leader who fought in Algeria in the early 1990s. His letter echoes many of the themes found in the letter written to Zarqawi by Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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