BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A U.S. air strike on a "terrorist meeting site" in Falluja Thursday night killed approximately 60 foreign fighters with ties to known terrorist leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the Coalition Press Information Center said.

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Bush administration officials have pointed to intelligence showing that Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of a terrorist group with ties to al Qaeda, spent some time in Baghdad, as circumstantial evidence of possible ties between Saddam's regime and al Qaeda.

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Sources said the individual is a member of a group operating in western Baghdad under the leadership of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian believed by the United States to have been the mastermind behind the assassination of American diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman last October.

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