Posted on 06/27/2005 7:37:16 PM PDT by Wiz
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Several commanders of the Al Qaida movement in Saudi Arabia have transferred their operations to Iraq in an effort to fight the U.S.-led coalition.
Islamic sources said the movement of scores of leading Al Qaida fighters from Saudi Arabia has hampered operations against the Saudi regime. They said the Saudi members of Al Qaida have become aides and financiers of Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi in Iraq.
About 3,000 to 5,000 Saudis have been fighting the U.S. military in Iraq. Over the past few months, about 200 Saudis returned to the kingdom.
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It's all Bush's fault.
If he hadn't provoked Al Qaeda, they wouldn't be in Iraq trying to kill our soldiers.
It's all Bush's fault. It's all our fault too.
(sarcasm off)
The US has been really low balling the number of foreign fighters in Iraq for a long time. I keep hearing generals say that there are only a few hundred or a thousand. But, we captured 100 foreign fighters in one felt swoop in operation Spear.
Good, bring em on!
After all, the best defense is a great offensive.
We can't be afford to be passive in this world we live in.
Mininum number is 5,000 terrorists. Could go as high as 20,000.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Sauds were paying to get rid of these guys.
"commanders of the Al Qaida movement in Saudi Arabia have transferred their operations to Iraq in an effort to fight the U.S.-led coalition."
Flypaper alert
"Islamic sources said the movement of scores of leading Al Qaida fighters from Saudi Arabia has hampered operations against the Saudi regime. They said the Saudi members of Al Qaida have become aides and financiers of Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi in Iraq."
Ah, Sun Tzu said it best: Where strong, project weakness ... Now if we can turn our perceived weakness into strength.
"Al Queda fighters" they mean terrorists... right?
This puts the ramp-up in violence, seemingly inconsistent with political progress, in context. Al Qaeda has made a move in recent months to redouble efforts in Iraq; the number of 3,000 to 5,000 Saudis in Iraq is shockingly high, yet consistent with the other news items: That 90% of suicide bombers are foreigners; that the composition of the insurgency is increasingly foreign; that more and more Iraqi Sunni 'tribes' are getting sick and tired of the Jihadist 'insurgents'.
This is not a single war we are fighting in Iraq, but the third one. We won the first war, against the Saddam Hussein regime. And the second war, against those Baathist regime remnants and the 'anti-occupation' insurgents, has deflected and stopped their attempts to derail the movement of Iraq to democracy.
This news is in the short term very serious, but in the long term may be of fundamental importance in the global war on terror. In the best case, this sucks the oxygen out of Al Qaeda in other places, and terrorists who would have lived to threaten us elsewhere are dying in the attempt to bloody us in Iraq. In the worst case, Iraq's violence is becoming both a recruiting tool for Jihadists and a training ground for our enemy.
The trick is to turn Iraq into a 'roach motel' where the terrorists can't check out. Flypaper is no good if the flies don't stick.
Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Kuwait are the top three of foreigners in Iraq.
This is bad? I think it is a good thing...
I agree. I think that this has been one of the Bush admins principals goals. 1. Search Iraq, deny Al Qaeda any WMD. 2. End Iraqi funding of suicide bombing in Israel. 3. Remove Hussein and 4. Suck Al Qaeda into Iraq and kill 'em.
I have often thought that Bush has been "Bunching flies" in Iraq.
I think you just put it best.
The second part of the war really seemed to end after the January 30th elections. The violence that has appeared post January 30th after the several month lull has been almost exclusively mass unrelenting suicide attacks on everyone a new and extremely effective tactic by Zarqawi.
I think the president really needs to tell the American public tomorrow that the main battle in Iraq is now no longer domestic insurgents, it is Zarqawi led foreign extremists. The administration has been afraid of doing that for some time for fear they would be blamed for not keeping them out, but it doesn't matter the US public needs to know who they are fighting and it needs to have a enemy to rally against, and hell would have trouble making a greater piece of evil shit then Zarqawi, so use him damn it. Don't drone on and on about "insurgents" and Saddam loyalists because they aren't the ones reeking havok everyday and the US public isn't going to be willing to keep US forces in Iraq to keep fighting an enemy they don't fear will come to the US to kill them and the US public really doesn't fear the ex-Baathists, and there isn't much reason to, for the most part they are trying to join the political process anyway. The administration needs to focus on the real evil in Iraq.
It doesn't appear to be the Iraqis, who lived under Saddam in a secular society, who want this jihad. It's these radical foreign Muslims who are invading, trying to force Iraq to become their vision of a regional muslim empire. They have no right to be there!
Seems like the Iraqis themselves should be responsible for flushing these terrorists out. Do they want their Country or not?
If you talk to the SF you would find it is Saudis and Chechens.
Al Qaeda is doubling down on their bet....they need a win(NOT GOING TO HAPPEN) in Iraq or its pretty much over for them.
Does anyone know what happens to the ones we capture?
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