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Qaeda defectors claw way back into Iraq mainstream (AFP)

Ex Al-Qaeda fighter interviewed under the fictitious name of Abdul Rahman Mohammed, leaves a house in the town of Duluiyah, 70 kms north of Baghdad on August 18, 2008. Mohammed and hundreds like him from Al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups in largely Sunni Arab Salaheddin province surrendered under an amnesty offered by US and Iraqi militaries with a pledge to begin a new civilian life.(AFP/File/Jay Deshmukh)AFP - Last month Al-Qaeda fighters Abdul Rahman Mohammed and Ahmed Ali laid down their arms after nearly four years of fighting US soldiers in Iraq.

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