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A Terrorist With a Deadly Past: Experts agree that Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi is a terrorist, but not all see him as a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq. (DON VAN NATTA Jr. with DAVID JOHNSTON, 2/10/03, NY Times)

Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi's disfigured body shows the hard reality of his life. A scar runs along the left side of his face, possibly the product of an accident with improvised explosives. He wears a prosthetic leg, fitted in Baghdad last spring where he received treatment for injuries caused by an American bomb in Afghanistan. [...]

In Germany, officials have investigated Mr. Zarqawi for more than a year, but Mr. Powell's assertion surprised them. "We have been investigating Mr. Zarqawi for some time," said a senior German intelligence official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We need to examine the evidence that Powell has drawn from, and it is possible that he knows things that we don't. But as of yet we have seen no indication of a direct link between Zarqawi and Baghdad."

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