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19 May 2005
Foreign fighters are the least of our worries in Iraq
The new Iraqi Government requested that its neighbors stop the resistance
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari called on neighboring countries Thursday to help prevent foreign terrorists from crossing into Iraq as a series of attacks killed more than a dozen Iraqis and two American soldiers. The only problem is the resistance, it is not an insurgency, is not based totally, or for that matter, at all outside of Iraq. The only ones saying this is bushCo. and the new Iraqi Government. In an inappropriately named WaPo article U.S. military estimates cited by security analysts put the number of active jihadists at about 1,000, or less than 10 percent of the number of fighters in a mostly Iraqi-dominated insurgency. But military officials now say the foreigners are responsible for a higher percentage of the suicide bombings, and the online postings include few names of dead Iraqis affiliated with Zarqawi's group. Furthermore, western press is so quick to blame Syria and Iran, when the greatest number of jihadists come from Saudi Arabia In a paper published in March, Reuven Paz, an Israeli expert on terrorism, analyzed the lists of jihadi dead. He found 154 Arabs killed over the previous six months in Iraq, 61 percent of them from Saudi Arabia, with Syrians, Iraqis and Kuwaitis together accounting for another 25 percent. He also found that 70 percent of the suicide bombers named by the Web sites were Saudi. In three cases, Paz found two brothers who carried out suicide attacks. Many of the bombers were married, well educated and in their late twenties, according to postings. Juan Cole weighs in noting that some jihadists get sent back without a fight in Iraq From al-Hayat of May 14 via BBC World Monitoring:' Al-Hayat has learnt that two Saudi brothers who went to Iraq across the Syrian border for "jihad" against the occupation returned without taking part in any fighting after a bitter experience. So the claim that the neighbors are behind the resistance seems to be false and we are truly dealing with a national resistance supported at a low level by foreign jihadists, contrary to western press reports and MSM claims. 4:19 PM // Blogroll AE // Email // |
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