BBC - US reveals 'al-Qaeda Iraq plot'

US officials in Iraq say they have uncovered what they believe is a plot by a militant linked to al-Qaeda to foment sectarian violence there. The Americans seized a memo thought to be from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a suspected Jordanian militant. The message laments the failure to expel US troops from Iraq - but suggests igniting the Shia-Sunni conflict could rescue the resistance. Iraq's majority Shias were persecuted under Saddam Hussein, a Sunni.