Report: Most Iraq Fighters From Gulf-(70 Percent Of Insurgents Are NON-IRAQI)

CBS NEWS ^ | 5-23-07 | CBS/AP

[tcrlaf]

KUWAIT CITY, May. 23, 2007 (AP) Seventy percent of insurgents fighting in Iraq come from Gulf countries via Syria where they are provided with forged passports, an Iraqi intelligence officer alleged in a published report Wednesday.

"They, according to their own confessions, gather in mosques in the said (Gulf) states to travel to Syria using their passports, taking with them phone numbers of individuals waiting for them there," Brig. Gen. Rashid Fleih, the assistant undersecretary for intelligence of Iraq's Interior Ministry, told Kuwait's Al-Qabas daily in an interview.

Fleih did not provide more specific details about the alleged insurgents or which countries they come from. But he said once in Syria, the alleged insurgents are transported to the al-Qaim border area. Individuals provide the men them with new passports after destroying the old ones, Fleih alleged in an interview from Baghdad.

[tcrlaf]

Too bad it's taken YEARS for AP to admit what the MilBlobs have been telling us all along...

I'm even MORE surprised to see it on CBS!

Another version of this was posted by someone around 2AM, but it should be seen IN THE DAYLIGHT!!

[AmericanGunner]

Iraq should just pass an immigration bill. That will prevent all the non-iraq’s from entering the country.

Sincerly,

George Bush

[eureka!]

Syria really needs to be dealt with, and soon...

[ZULU]

SYRIA?????

I’m STUNNED!!!!

That’s like saying Iran is providing the insurgents with military equipment!!!

How absurd.

[gov_bean_ counter]

They are just fighting the battles most Iraqis aren’t willing to fight. /s

[Always Right]

I thought this was a civil war?????

[Always Right]

This makes the ‘insurgents’ actually foreign invaders.

[Stultis]

Huh? Don't the Jihadis streaming down it in their rush to go and bomb Iraqi mosques and market places know (per SanFranNanGran) that "the road to Damascus is the road to peace"?

Maybe Nancy can try telling them "Palamino"?

[james500]

Kinda screws up the left’s spin, doesn’t it?

[Always Right]

Kinda screws up the left’s spin, doesn’t it?

Only if they report it. Most will ignore and continue to spout off about the civil war.

[james500]

“Individuals provide the men them with new passports after destroying the old ones, Fleih alleged in an interview from Baghdad.”

I wonder if Ramzi Yousef got his Iraqi passport the same way.