[link|http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6202988%255E663,00.html|Weren't they not supposed to be in Iraq?]

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BRITISH military interrogators claim captured Iraqi soldiers have told them that al-Qaida terrorists are fighting against allied troops near Basra.

At least a dozen members of Osama bin Laden's network are in the town of Az Zubayr, where they are co-ordinating grenade and gun attacks on coalition positions, according to the Iraqi prisoners of war.

A senior British military source inside Iraq said: "The information we have received from PoWs today is that an al-Qaida cell may be operating in Az Zubayr, near Basra in the south. There are possibly around a dozen of them and that is obviously a matter of concern to us."

British forces were believed to be preparing a military strike on the base where the al-Qaida unit was understood to be holed up.

If confirmed, it would be the first proof of a direct link between Saddam's regime and Osama bin Laden.

I say:

Proof is subjective. Those of us who have common sense have always known they were there. The rest will never believe, no matter what the proof.