US forces raided the headquarters of the Kurdish Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, arresting 20 people suspected of having links to Ansar al-Islam, said police sources and a human rights activist in Kirkuk, Muayad Ibrahim hmed. Jamaa's leader Ali Bapir was arrested on July 10 by US forces. The US State Department has alleged that Ansar al-Islam, which operates in northeastern Iraq, has close links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network.
| And Jamat-e-Islami is one of its funnel organizations, and probably its "legit" front organization. |
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