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* Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is an enemy in plain view. Thirty-seven years old and a Jordanian by birth, he's a longtime Qaeda loyalist. He is known to have fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, and to have recruited for the Chechens. Above all, he was commander of Ansar al-Islam, a group of all-Arab fanatics under Saddam Hussein's direction in Iraqi Kurdistan, where they blazed a trail of murder and brutality. Here's someone with clear links to both Saddam and Osama bin Laden. In his precampaign report early last year to the U.N., Secretary of State Colin Powell first fingered him. During the actual fighting, Kurdish and U.S. forces destroyed much of Ansar. Zarqawi and other survivors went underground, and they are suspected of committing most of the outrages in Iraq. At the Iraq-Iran border, Kurdish forces ...