Cheney Blurs Focus on Al-Qaeda: "Vice President Dick Cheney has in recent speeches mentioned the major bombings in Iraq this past summer in the same breath as the deadly strikes in Bali, Casablanca and Riyadh, which authorities say were carried out by Al Qaeda or groups affiliated with it.
... Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the American ground commander in Iraq, said recently, 'We do not have any confirmed Al Qaeda operatives actually in custody at this point.'
... "To paint all these groups with such broad brush strokes does a great disservice," said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat on the Armed Services Committee and a former officer in the 82nd Airborne Division. "We'll lose our focal point on what's the greatest threat.""
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