Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.

[SpiralHawk]

Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/world/middleeast/22fighters.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. - The New York Times
Published: November 22, 2007

BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks, according to senior American military officials."

(snip)....


"The Saudis are my intimate cronies, and even though almost all the terra-rists on 9/11 who attacked America were Saudis, and even though none were Iraqis, and even though I give the bin Laden clan 'special' treatment, and even though the Saudis are killing our sons and daughters in uniform, I still love them. I still want to remain intimate with them. Let's just say there are a lot of occult benefits from our 'relationship.'"

- Commander AWOL Bush

[Lasher]

1. There's never been more than about 2,000 foreigners fighting with the insurgency

The Brookings Institute has been tracking this and lots of other things about the war in Iraq.

http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.pdf

Here's a breakdown of the country of origin of these foreign fighters as of September 2005:

[provis99]

2. well, Egypt and Syria do it

because its a dandy way to get rid of their own Islamic fundamentalist problem: just ship 'em off to get killed by the Americans. They don't want them to actually succeed in establishing fundamentalism in Iraq, just get killed off so these countries don't have to deal with them. Don't know about the other countries, though.