Ansar al-Islam

In the early days of the war against -- in Iraq, the Americans successfully, along with their Kurdish allies, pushed out of Iraq, northeastern Iraq, a group called Ansar al-Islam, which is an al Qaeda affiliate.

CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2003 2003

According to some reports, Zarqawi also may have traveled to Iraq's Kurdish region to visit a pro-bin Laden militia called Ansar al-Islam, and to the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia, where Qaeda operatives reportedly train with Chechen militants.

CT-SEN: Lieberman Suggests Terrorists Were In Iraq Before U.S. Invasion 2009

Powell accused the movement, called Ansar al-Islam, of having ties to both al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

CT-SEN: Lieberman Suggests Terrorists Were In Iraq Before U.S. Invasion 2009

In his March 2002 piece, he credulously recycled the claims of "Kurdish intelligence officials" that a Kurdish terror group called Ansar al-Islam was "shielding Al Qaeda members, and ... doing so with the approval of Saddam's agents."

Spencer Ackerman: Fast and Loose With the Facts 2008

What they were talking about was this group called Ansar al-Islam, that was holed up here in the north, in the Kurdish region.

CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2007 2007

A particularly virulent group of Islamicists, known as Ansar al-Islam, is holed up in Kurdish territory in northern Iraq.

Spies, Lies &Amp; Iraq 2007

What they were talking about was this group called Ansar al-Islam, that was holed up here in the north, in the Kurdish region.

CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2007 2007

What they were talking about was this group called Ansar al-Islam, that was holed up here in the north, in the Kurdish region.

CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2007 2007

According to U.S. officials, he turned up in a Jihadi camp belonging to a group called Ansar al-Islam, located in Kurdish controlled Northern Iraq.

CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2006 2006

According to U.S. officials, he turned up in a Jihadi camp belonging to a group called Ansar al-Islam, located in Kurdish controlled Northern Iraq.

CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2006 2006