Posted on 10/05/2004 10:26:43 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Half of insurgents captured at Samara were Africans
BAGHDAD – The U.S. military has established that Al Qaida-aligned insurgents from North Africa have played a leading role in the Sunni insurgency in Iraq.
Officials said about half of the insurgents captured in Samara last week were nationals from Arab states in North Africa. They said an initial interrogation has determined that the insurgents arrived from such countries as Egypt, Sudan and Tunisia.
U.S. officials said insurgents from such countries as Algeria, Egypt, Sudan and Tunisia have been recruited for operations against the Multinational Force in Iraq. They said many of the insurgents were recruited by the Salafist Brigade for Combat and Call, based in Algeria and regarded as the leading subcontractor for Al Qaida.
The presence of North African insurgents was highlighted during the U.S. military operation to capture Samara, under the control of a coalition of Saddam Hussein supporters and Al Qaida-aligned agents since October 2003.
About 150 insurgents were said to have been killed in the combination of air and ground strikes by U.S. units and Iraqi forces.
The insurgents were said to have been recruited by Salafist operatives in North Africa and transported to Iraq via Syria. Many of them then joined the Tawhid and Jihad group, headed by Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi, regarded as the most lethal insurgent in Iraq. The recruits were provided with Iraqi government documents that listed their professions as everything from electricians to farmers.
Officials said resistance by Saddam and Al Qaida-aligned forces continues despite the capture of Samara. They said the military has not captured the heads of the insurgency.
The U.S. military and the Defense Department has assessed that the lion's share of insurgency attacks have been conducted by former members of Saddam's military and security forces. But they said the suicide bombings in Baghdad and cities in the Sunni Triangle have often included foreign volunteers.
There's John Kerry's international coalition!
He's descended from Muhammad, doncha know.
(John Kerry gonna take care of all this trubble . .)
Line them up and shoot them.
Makes sense to me, Algeria former French Colony!
But 'Effin said they were all in Afghanistan.......and that's where the US shud be......
I wonder who's helping them get into Iraq...could the countries name start with the letter "I" and end in "ran"?
they'l be driving cabs in NYC and Detroit next year. except for the dead ones
Like flies to flypaper. Whatever few 'patriotic Iraqis' survive and return home will have grim stories to tell. Word is already spreading of Syrian and other regional jihadis who have gone back home and told desperate stories of being unsupported by the Iraqi people, and massacred by the Americans. I hope that these stories spread far and wide.
Hey, isn't "Viet Cong" John's wife, Terry Kerry, from Africa???
Death to all Islamofascist terrorists ~ Bump!
Be Ever Vigilant!
ping
Iran is undoubtably sending its own (shiite) people over, but the north africans are sunnis and, as the article stated, came through a country that starts with 'Syr' and ends with 'ia'
Aren't these the people who are routinely granted political asylum in Canada and the UK?
This was the law under which the British hanged Nathan Hale in Manhattan, in the American Revolution. General Washington followed the same law in hanging Major John Andre in New Jersey (he was the contact for General Benedict Arnold's treachery). This was the same law under which American military executed by firing squad certain Germans and others during the occupation after WW II.
It is time to get tough. Let the drumhead trials and executions begin.
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More Al Qaida outsourcing.
This is bad. Why are we 'capturing' insurgents? Did these guys woos out on their martyrdom thing?
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