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CIA Recalls Top Officer In Baghdad

HeadlineFeb 25, 2004

In Iraq, for the second time since May the CIA has recalled its top officer in Baghdad over doubts about his leadership abilities. This according to Agence France Press. In Baghdad, the CIA is running the largest office in the agency’s history with over 500 agents. Also in Iraq, the US is claiming it killed an aide of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and arrested several other people in a raid last week in Al-Ramadi. The U.S. has claimed Al-Zarqawi has ties to Al Qaeda and is organizing the foreign resistance in Iraq.

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