ADDING to post no. 9:
stepping back in time...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828604/posts
In Jihadist Haven, a Goal: To Kill and Die in Iraq (Most Suicide Bombers From Outside Iraq)
New York Times ^ | 4 May 2007 | SOUAD MEKHENNET and MICHAEL MOSS
Posted on May 4, 2007 2:52:58 PM PDT by shrinkermd
This article is anecdotal recounting of a young man from outside Iraq who did his best to martyr himself. What is important, is the recounting of actually who is and who is not a suicide bomber. Remember, these bombers have been described as fomenting a civil war and proof positive of a civil war.
This is not the case as can be seen below:
“...The stories of the men from Zarqa help explain the seemingly endless supply of suicide bombers in Iraq, most of whom are believed to be foreigners.
“...Suicide bombings in Iraq are averaging roughly 42 a month, American military officials said.
“...In April, a pair of truck bombers killed nine American soldiers, another bomber blew himself up in the Green Zone killing one member of Parliament, and others killed more than 290 civilians.]
“...The anger among militants in Zarqa, a mostly Sunni city [in Jordan], is now directed at Shiites as much as Americans, reflecting the escalation in hostility between the two branches of Islam since Shiites gained dominance in the new Iraqi government. “They have traditions that are un-Islamic and they hate the Sunnis,” said Ahmad Khalil Abdelaziz Salah, an imam whose mosque in Zarqa was attended by some of Zarqa’s bomb
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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