| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - These local forces had been fighting alongside al-Qaeda against U.S. and Iraqi government troops previously, but al-Qaeda???s extremist Islamist ideology and its massacres of civilians so alienated the populace that the local leaders have been willing to make a temporary alliance with U.S. forces to drive out the extremists, many of whom come from Saudi Arabia and other foreign countries.
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