Foreign Fighters Captured in Iraq Come From 27, Mostly Arab, Lands

NY Times ^ | October 21 2005 | DEXTER FILKINS

[Southack]

The NY Times doesn't exactly come out to say that insurgent attacks are down, now do they?!

An honest omission, I'm sure...

[Panic in the Streets]

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.

[kublia khan]

How can this be????????? I saw Gary Hart on the hahn Vannity show tonight and he frankly stated that 90% of the combatants we are killing in Iraq are homegrown insurgents. I can't believe Gary would lie about something like this; now knocking the bottom out of an intern or two that's different but not this!

[Just A Nobody]

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.

[jim-x]

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...

[Berlin_Freeper]

Notice Iran is not mentioned, that is probably because they are the ones blowing themselves up while the others take up arms.

[endthematrix]

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.

[endthematrix]

Doesn't seem to boggle as much as I thought. I don't know if the US, coalition and Iraq each have separate counts.

"U.S. figures show some success in curbing infiltration. Zahner said the number of foreign fighters entering Iraq, which had started to approach 200 a month in June, appeared to drop to 100 a month or fewer by the end of August. More than 315 foreign fighters have been killed since March and nearly 330 detained. Suicide attacks fell about 50 percent from May to August."

Zarqawi 'Hijacked' Insurgency
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492581/posts

[Bazooka]

What if they run out of space in Guantanamo?

[American in Israel]

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.

[American in Israel]

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.

[CyberAnt]

Proving once again that BUSH WAS RIGHT!

Iraq is the central front in the WOT!!

[rogue yam]

Pennsylvania Amish are NOT terrorists.

We know most Terrorists are Methodists and Lutheran.

Once again the Mennonites totally skate! Wake up people!

[M. Espinola]

Jihadist killers keep entering Iraq and continue losing. Solutions to curbing the threat of foreign infiltrators would be régime changes in Syria, Iran and later on Saudi Arabia.

[Fresh Wind]

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.

[Stonewall Jackson]

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.