Posted on 11/23/2007 5:26:56 AM PST by SubGeniusX
More than 40% of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency in the past year were citizens of Saudi Arabia, America's key partner in the Middle East, according to detailed information seized from a camp used by them. Documents and computers found by the US army at Sinjar, on the Iraqi-Syrian border, revealed that the other single largest group came from Libya, which is now being rehabilitated as a reliable western ally.
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US military officials believe that 90% of such bombings are by foreigners.
The captured data has been described as an intelligence treasure trove that included biographical details and the hometowns of the more than 700 fighters who entered Iraq since August 2006. Of those 307, or 41%, were Saudis and 137, or 18%, Libyans, senior US military sources told the New York Times.
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The presence of a large number of Libyans among the insurgents in Iraq suggests that the regime of Muammar Gadafy has pushed its violent Islamist enemies abroad, having cleaned up its own act by renouncing support for terrorism and surrendering its chemical and nuclear arsenal after the US invasion of Iraq.
The documents, found in September, showed that the third-largest source of foreign fighters was Yemen, with 68, followed by Algeria, 64, Morocco, 50, Tunisia, 38, Jordan, 14, Turkey, six, and Egypt, two. These figures seem to corroborate suggestions of a worrying increase in jihadi activity across north Africa, where armed groups from Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco have united under the banner of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
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41%, were Saudis .............. This is a suprise? They’re home land of Wahabi Islam.
Doesn’t surprise me at all. If we do not get a handle on the Arabs and now Pakis, we will be dropping by the thousands here at home. 9/11 is a prime example.
Unsurprising.
Voting against drilling in ANWAR is voting to keep our heads in the sand.
Our fundamentally inconsistent foreign policy is driven by our dependence on foreign oil.
If the Saudis keep coming, we’ll keep killing them. It’s a small country population-wise..... If enough of their young die in Iraq, the Filipinos can take over Saudi!
Saudis make up 41% of foreign fighters in Iraq...
and these are our friends????
I read another poll that the numbers are higher for Saudi terrorists.. but either way it’s a real problem that does not get enough attention.
Only 700 foreigners, including 307 Saudis, entered Iraq since August 2006?
Iraq has better border security than we do.
Another poll noted that bears defecate in the woods. (Film at 11:00)
Do I really need a < /s> on this?
What is surprising is the few Egyptians in the mix. Also the lack of Palestinians. One would think that with the huge population of Egypt and the supposed influence of the Muslim brotherhood there that they would attract more”martyrs”.
Stinking jihadist SOB's went out of their way looking for trouble, and they should be suitably repaid for their efforts.
Filthy izlammik scum...
Keep your friends close. Keep your enemies closer.
The Saudis definitely are not our friends. We need to become completely independent from their oil supplies (like Brazil) and quit sending billions over to these people - its absolutely insane.
Unfortunately, the day may well come when we have to nuke both Mecca and Medina. In Mecca, the Kabba stone Muslims march around seven times would be blown away and the surrounding area would be radioactive for decades.
With no more pilgrimages (Hajj) possible by Muslims to Mecca, one of the five pillars of Islam could no longer be fulfilled by its followers. The false religion of Islam could very well die out within a couple of generations.
Nice Bumper Sticker type slogan ... but stupid foreign policy ...
It has worked so well in the past for us...
Saddam
Noriega
Papa and Baby Doc
Mujahadeen/Taliban
Putin (gazed into his eyes)
Musharraf
shall I go on...
The "Keep your enemies closer"/"the enemy of my enemy" approach to foreign policy has always turned out to be a disaster... why do we insist on repeating our mistakes???
Saudi Arabia is not America friendly.
In my opinion, they are our enemies. Their leadership has a lot of fun playing the traditional arabic assassin/intrigue game against those they speak soothingly to in public settings.
Yes!
The insanity will only end when we get SERIOUS about no longer tolerating SH*T from enemies.
Yep
How close? Close enough to slit our throats and take our money?
No kidding. By that logic we should have never gone to war against Hitler or Hirohito.
No kidding. Sometimes I feel like we landed on LV-426.
Only this time they don’t drip acid for blood. They just read the koran.
With friends like the Saudis who needs enemies?
It’s hard to fight your #1 enemy in breeding terrorism, when the President is so close to the rulers of Saudi..
It’s a sick twist on the war on terror.
Saudi Arabia was the other country, other than Afghanistan, that should have been bombed after 9/11/2001.
Fixed.
I suspect only 700 members of this small camp. There are hundreds of camps.
When it comes to taking our the Islamic enemy, it should be a triple hitter, Tehran, Riyadh and Damascus, and while we're at it, before they attack US, place Moscow on the list too.
“The presence of a large number of Libyans among the insurgents in Iraq suggests that the regime of Muammar Gadafy has pushed its violent Islamist enemies abroad, having cleaned up its own act by renouncing support for terrorism and surrendering its chemical and nuclear arsenal after the US invasion of Iraq.”
But the liberal media won’t see it that way. They’ll just keep showing that picture of Bush holding hands with Prince Abdullah, and that point to the 307 Saudis found at that camp in Iraq.
“The presence of a large number of Libyans among the insurgents in Iraq suggests that the regime of Muammar Gadafy has pushed its violent Islamist enemies abroad, having cleaned up its own act by renouncing support for terrorism and surrendering its chemical and nuclear arsenal after the US invasion of Iraq.”
But the liberal media won’t see it that way. They’ll just keep showing that picture of Bush holding hands with Prince Abdullah, and then point to the 307 Saudis found at that camp in Iraq.
You'd rather we use up our oil first, so the only cheap oil is overseas? Not a good strategic plan, IMHO.
Before that, I'd go for offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, where Cuba/China are drilling while we have banned ourselves from the area.
You'd rather we use up our oil firstI'd rather we use the resources we have available to us, which means developing an area that might have much more potential than we realize, than sit around with our thumbs up our butts and our dollars going directly into the coffers of the Jihadists.
Are you referring to these men?
CPT Humayun Saqib Muazzam Khan, SSG Ayman Abdelrahman Taha, or MAJ James Michael Ahearn...
you left this one out:
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/556
Though from some of your recent postings I’m not suprised.
Thank you! I'll take that as a compliment on my logic skills, since including that one would have made no difference in my point and to think so would be to commit a fallacy. (For example, if you were to say that all cows are black and white and I showed you a Guernsey and a Jersey, trotting out a Holstein wouldn't make you correct!)
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