When the United States attacked Afghanistan , American intelligence officials have said Zarqawi made his way through Iran to autonomous Kurdistan in northern Iraq , where he may have linked up with the terrorist group Ansar al-Islam in a region outside of Saddam Hussein 's reach .
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Saddam Hussein