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Gold9472
07-16-2007, 08:51 AM
Most foreign insurgents in Iraq are Saudis: report

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Most_foreign_insurgents_in_Iraq_are_07152007.html

(Gold9472: I thought our biggest enemy in Iraq was Al-Qaeda?)

Published: Sunday July 15, 2007

Most foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia, despite attempts by US officials to portray Syria and Iran as the main culprits of violence, a US newspaper reported Sunday.

Citing an unnamed senior US military officer and Iraqi lawmakers, the Los Angeles Times newspaper said about 45 percent of all foreign militants targeting US troops and Iraqi security forces were from Saudi Arabia, 15 percent from Syria and Lebanon, and 10 percent from North Africa

Official US military figures made available to The Times also show that nearly half of the 135 foreigners in US detention facilities in Iraq are Saudis, the report said.

Fighters from Saudi Arabia are thought to have carried out more suicide bombings than those of any other nationality, the paper said.

The senior US officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said 50 percent of all Saudi fighters in Iraq come as suicide bombers, The Times pointed out.

The situation has left the US military in the awkward position of battling an enemy whose top source of foreign fighters is a key ally that at best has not been able to prevent its citizens from undertaking bloody attacks in Iraq, and at worst shares complicity in sending extremists to commit attacks against US forces, Iraqi civilians and the Shiite-led government in Baghdad, the paper said.

beltman713
07-16-2007, 04:27 PM
I guess that blows that whole "Iran is blowin' up our troops" bit Bush and co have been pushing.

PhilosophyGenius
07-16-2007, 07:16 PM
Maher cited something like there are more Saudi weapons in Iraq than Iranians.

Eckolaker
07-16-2007, 07:34 PM
So were going after Saudi Arabia right?

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