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A Middle Eastern intelligence agency intercepted a letter from Ayman al-Zawahiri to Abu Ayyub al-Masri which encouraged al Qaeda in Iraq to fight beyond Iraq's borders. "Zawahiri claims that it is defeating US forces and urges followers to expand their campaign of terror... He conjures a vision of an Islamic state comprising Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, where al Qaeda has already gained its first footholds."