Marivan, March 22, IRNA -- At least sixty people were killed or       
injured in a Saturday US-led missile attack on the northern Kurdish   
city of Khaneqin, east of Sulaimaniya, local sources in this western  
Iranian border city said.                                             
    The toll came as US forces fired more than 100 Tomahawk missiles  
into the stronghold of Ansar al-Islam, a shadowy group with alleged   
links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.                          
    The group is said to have hundreds of fighters in a cluster of    
villages in northern Iraq, on a string of jagged peaks. Ansar is said 
to be one of the US targets in its invasion of Iraq.                  
    Washington accuses the group of having carried out or planning    
to carry out terror attacks against its targets as well as trying to  
build biological and chemical weapons with the help of al-Qaeda.      
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