Someone Please Knock Down "The Enemy in Iraq are Terrorists"

[leftchick]

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He keeps saying "the enemy", "the terrorists" over and over like Iraq is full of Taliban killing our troops. Foreigners make up less than 5% of the insurgency! The vast majority Are Homegrown Iraqis who want the US the fuck out of there and yes they use terror tactics Like all guerrilla fighters do. Murtha has been saying this for months! It would be nice if one of the journalists pointed that out.

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[LynnTheDem]

1. links to that FACT;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3001815

[leftchick]

2. Thank You Lynn!

The Queen of Iraq Facts!

U.S. Now Finds That Insurgents Are Mostly Iraqis

The battle for the city of Fallujah is giving U.S. military commanders an increasingly clear picture of this country's insurgency, and it is the portrait of a home-grown uprising overwhelmingly dominated by Iraqis, not by foreign fighters.

Of the more than 1,000 men between the ages of 15 and 55 who were captured in intense fighting in the center of the insurgency over the past week, just 15 are confirmed foreign fighters, Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. ground commander in Iraq, said Monday.

American commanders said their best estimates of the proportion of foreigners among their enemy was about 5 percent.

[LynnTheDem]

3. and more links to that FACT;

Report attacks 'myth' of foreign fighters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1576666,00.html

The 'myth' of Iraq's foreign fighters
Report by US think tank says only '4 to 10' percent of insurgents are foreigners
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0923/dailyUpdate.html