Iraq's Porous Borders

Quds Hassan Abbas
YURI KOZYREV

Unrepentant
Quds Hassan Abbas, 32, also known as Mullah Quds, in a prison cell at Sulimaniyah. He had been a high-ranking member of the al-Qaeda aligned Kurdish group Ansar al-Islam until his capture last summer by Kurdish forces. Abbas told Time he had been trying to launch a new organization to fight the U.S. and its allies in Iraq

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