Over Ninety Percent of Terror Attacks in Iraq Not From Iraqis
By: Tim Saler · Section: Diaries
Promoted from Diaries...
From the Associated Press,
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi officials have long believed that foreign fighters infiltrating Iraq through its porous borders with Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia are behind most suicide missions, and the recent wave of bloody strikes has confirmed that thinking.
Authorities have found little evidence that Iraqis have been behind the near-daily stream of suicide attacks over the past six months, U.S. and Iraqi intelligence officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitivity.
The key role of foreign fighters in suicide attacks is one reason many senior military officials, including the top U.S. general in the Middle East, tend to view the war in Iraq as slowly developing into an international struggle against militant Islam.
Iraqis have carried out less than 10 percent of more than 500 suicide attacks since 2003, according to one defense official. At least 213 attacks have occurred this year - 172 by vehicle and 41 by bombers on foot - according to a count by The Associated Press.
How much longer will it take for the Democrats and the media (and some Republicans, of course) to stop calling the terrorist attacks taking place in Iraq part of an "insurgency"?
More below the fold.
Jul 1st, 2005: 09:59:59, Not Rated
When the Democrats and the media use the term "insurgency," they are implying that these attacks are coming from the discontent and dissatisfaction of the Iraqi people. According to these new statistics, that is far from the case.
This is an invasion by any stretch of the imagination. Foreign fighters have invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq and are fighting both Iraqis as well as United States/Coalition soldiers.
In every poll, the Iraqi people say that they want the United States to remain in Iraq until they are capable of defending themselves on their own. If the attacks were coming largely from Iraqis within their own country, what would they be defending themselves against? Themselves?
The Iraqi people know that these terrorists are coming from outside their country. The United States military on the ground know that these terrorists are coming from outside the country. They are not insurgent Iraqis, equivalent to our leaders in the Revolutionary War. They are foreign invaders, and it's about time the media start telling the truth about what's really going on over there.
I'm not holding my breath.
Full discussion: http://www.redstate.org/story/2005/7/1/9260/19744
This is really key. Good article - thanks for the link.
One of these days the Americans will be forced to admit that we are in the middle of a world war.
At times I think Bush must be one of the smartest men on earth, he at least is keeping a part of the war in the middleeast and not at home.
Had we not gone to Iraq, the jihadi's would have been taking pot shots here and that would have left us open to the communist groups from around the world.
The communist politicians are out of the closet, but the common America haters are still marching and burning flags.
It is going to be worse than the 1862 Civil War, if they all come out at one time.
As much as i posted here this morning, that was not all the war news of the world, it is rough and dangerous to be alive in this world today.
Glad to see you posting today, I have missed you.