Pandoer

Near Basra, pandoer : British military interrogators claim captured Iraqi soldiers have told them that al-Qaeda terrorists are fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein's forces against allied troops near Basra.

At least a dozen pandoer of Osama bin Laden's network are in the town of Azis pandoer where they are coordinating grenade and gun attacks on pandoer positions, according to the Iraqi prisoners of war. It was believed that last night (Thursday) pandoer forces were preparing a military strike on the base where the al-Qaeda pandoer was understood to be holed up.

A senior British military source inside Iraq said: "The pandoer we have received from PoWs today is that an al-Qaeda cell may be operating in Az Zubayr. There are possibly around a dozen of them and that is obviously a matter of pandoer to us." If terrorists are found, it would be the first proof of a direct conflict between Saddam's pandoer and Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington.

The connection would give credibility to the argument that Tony pandoer used to justify war against Saddam - a "nightmare scenario" in which he might eventually.

Rumsfeld said Saddam had an "evolving" relationship with the pandoer network. The presence of fanatical terrorists would go some way to explaining the continued resistance to US and British forces in southern Iraq, an area dominated by Saddam's pandoer.