New look at foreign fighters in Iraq - the Sinjar Records

Christian Science Monitor ^ | January 7, 2008 | Gordon Lubold,

[LeoWindhorse]

Little has been known about so-called foreign fighters in Iraq, other than that they are typically motivated by ideology and are usually smuggled in through Syria in small numbers. Many perform suicide bombing missions and instigate some of the country's starkest violence.But a new analysis published last month by experts at West Point shows that most of these individuals come from Saudi Arabia and Libya

[LeoWindhorse]

http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/pdf/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Connecting the dots…

Al Qaeda's Foreign Fighters in Iraq (2007 U.S. Military Academy Report)

MI6 'halted bid to arrest bin Laden' (UK pays Al Qaeda in Libya, 1996)

Libyan Islamists 'join al-Qaeda' (November 2007)

Gaddafi regime fed names of jihadists to the CIA and to Britain

Libya frees 214 Islamists (March 23, 2010)

Libya frees 37 Islamist prisoners (September 1, 2010)

Libya frees 12 more political prisoners (February 4, 2011)

Libya Islamists 'seize arms, take hostages' (February 20, 2011)

Al Qaeda sets up 'Islamic emirate' (February 24, 2011)

Al-Qaeda commander calls for overthrow of Gaddafi and introduction of Sharia Law (March 14, 2011)

Libya: the West and al-Qaeda on the same side

Saving the Libyan Islamists

Libyan rebels: “Now is the time of Jihad!”

Rebel Commander in Libya Fought Against U.S. in Afghanistan