The NY Times doesn't exactly come out to say that insurgent attacks are down, now do they?!
An honest omission, I'm sure...
Posted on 10/20/2005 9:20:36 PM PDT by jmc1969
Some 312 foreign nationals, including one American, have been captured while taking part in the insurgency in Iraq since April of this year, a senior American military commander said Thursday.
Gen. Rick Lynch, the spokesman for American forces, said most of the foreigners captured were from Egypt, where 78 prisoners were from; followed by Syria, with 66; Sudan, 41; and Saudi Arabia, with 32. The rest of the detainees come from 23 different countries, most of them predominantly Muslim nations, but also some European ones like Britain, Denmark, France and Ireland.
The American in custody, they said, was of Arab descent, as were the two Britons and one Israeli. No other details were made available on those prisoners, nor on any of the others.
Chief among the foreign fighters in Iraq is a Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the terrorist group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
The foreign fighters are generally thought to enter Iraq from Syria, where they move through the cities and towns along the Euphrates River corridor toward Baghdad. In recent months, the American military has carried out a number of operations along the Euphrates to disrupt the flow of fighters.
That effort has brought the fighting right up to, and at times over, the Syrian border, sometimes by accident, sometimes by design, according to American officials. Some current and former officials add that the United States military is considering plans to conduct operations inside Syria, using small, covert teams for intelligence gathering.
A series of clashes have occurred between American and Syrian troops in the last year, including a prolonged firefight this summer that killed several Syrians. That skirmish, between Army Rangers and Syrian troops along the border with Iraq, was the most serious of the conflicts, according to American and Syrian officials.
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The NY Times doesn't exactly come out to say that insurgent attacks are down, now do they?!
An honest omission, I'm sure...
No, of course not.
Pennsylvania Amish are NOT terrorists.
We know most Terrorists are Methodists and Lutheran.
Get your facts straight before putting down the friendly and peaceful Amish, and start putting blame where it belongs.
The slimes is a bit late reporting this, wouldn't you say?
http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=762244
BAGHDAD, Aug 21 (KUNA) -- Up to 281 people have been arrested around Iraq for being implicated in terror-related attacks, said spokesman for the Iraqi government Laith Kibba on Sunday.
Speaking at a press conference, he said that among those arrested were 80 Egyptians, 64 Syrians, 41 Sudanese, 22 Saudis, 17 Jordanians, 10 Palestinians, seven Libyans, six Tunisians, as well as 12 Iranians, four Turks and one British national.
I wonder why they don't say how many foreign fighters have been "killed" in Iraq since April.
The number would probably boggle the mind...
Notice Iran is not mentioned, that is probably because they are the ones blowing themselves up while the others take up arms.
Again, isn't the point to have the battle ground in Iraq rather than the Midwest USA?
Let them travel to Iraq and let the Marines bury them in that sand box never to return.
What if they run out of space in Guantanamo?
Hard to capture a suicide bomb. They do not count.
There is a gag on any PA activity because we support them and it gets embarassing to Congress to be paying the payroll of the terrorists and our troops at the same time.
I would say it is way past time to stop giving aid to any country represented on the list, and Egypt is the first on the list and the highest paid.
Proving once again that BUSH WAS RIGHT!
Iraq is the central front in the WOT!!
We know most Terrorists are Methodists and Lutheran.
Once again the Mennonites totally skate! Wake up people!
Hmmmm. PA could mean Pennsylvania Amish, or it could mean Palestinian Authority. The Amish wear funny hats, the terrorists wear funny hats. Coincidence? I think not.
Just find a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific and drop them out the back end of a C-130. The parachute is optional.
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