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Iraq
Saudis make up 41% of foreign fighters in Iraq
2007-11-23
More than 40% of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency in the past year were citizens of Saudi Arabia, America's key partner in the Middle East, according to detailed information seized from a camp used by them. Documents and computers found by the US army at Sinjar, on the Iraqi-Syrian border, revealed that the other single largest group came from Libya, which is now being rehabilitated as a reliable western ally.
I wouldn't go that far, I'd say that they're being defanged ...
Overall, US officials reported that the number of foreign fighters entering Iraq this year dropped from 80-110 a month in the first half of the year to around 40 in October, partly due to the Sinjar raid.

After the raid the number of suicide bombings in Iraq fell to 16 in October - half the number seen during the summer months and down from a peak of 59 in March. US military officials believe that 90% of such bombings are by foreigners.

The captured data has been described as an intelligence treasure trove that included biographical details and the hometowns of the more than 700 fighters who entered Iraq since August 2006. Of those 307, or 41%, were Saudis and 137, or 18%, Libyans, senior US military sources told the New York Times.

Saudi Arabia, former home of Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers, has supposedly cracked down hard on al-Qaida in recent years. Saudi intelligence works closely with its US counterparts, but there have long been suspicions that the country's most dangerous jihadis have gone to Iraq. "The border with Iraq is apparently much more carefully controlled than it was 18 months ago," said one British official. The Saudis also run extensive programmes "re-educating" and rehabilitating fighters who have returned from Iraq or Afghanistan to see "the error of their ways".
To follow the Wahabi dictates in the future, and wage jihad only when told to do so ...
The US, Britain and others have praised the Saudis for their efforts, pointing especially to a recent appeal by the kingdom's grand mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Asheik, who condemned "mischievous parties" who send young Saudis abroad to carry out "heinous acts which have no association with Islam whatsoever".

The presence of a large number of Libyans among the insurgents in Iraq suggests that the regime of Muammar Gadafy has pushed its violent Islamist enemies abroad, having cleaned up its own act by renouncing support for terrorism and surrendering its chemical and nuclear arsenal after the US invasion of Iraq.
Which is why we need to have a further 'conversation' with Q-man ...
The documents, found in September, showed that the third-largest source of foreign fighters was Yemen, with 68, followed by Algeria, 64, Morocco, 50, Tunisia, 38, Jordan, 14, Turkey, six, and Egypt, two. These figures seem to corroborate suggestions of a worrying increase in jihadi activity across north Africa, where armed groups from Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco have united under the banner of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
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#9  The key might be in finding what the Saudis think is a shameful way to die. For example, the Iraqis hang, but the Saudis behead, usually murderers and drug smugglers. Perhaps if the Iraqis took to beheading captured Saudi terrorists, it would click back home.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-11-23 21:32  

#8  It would also screw up the retirement plans of a lot of folks in Washington that nurse at the Saudi teat while claiming to be upstanding, patriotic Americans.

That alone would be worth the price of admission. We have been sold out.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-11-23 16:16  

#7  A half-dozen LARGE nukes over Saudi Arabia would put an end to much of the mischief in the world - as long as it's coupled with about 20 in Iran. It would also send a clear message to the jihadis that if they mess with the West, they will cease to exist - as a nation, as a religion, as a people. It would also screw up the retirement plans of a lot of folks in Washington that nurse at the Saudi teat while claiming to be upstanding, patriotic Americans. It would also END the "war on terror" - what a stupid name! How about the War against Islamic Jihad?
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-11-23 14:20  

#6  So, in effect, we are at war with these bastards and have been for quite some time. Not only on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in the mosques of Europe and America. The only problem is our elites won't let anybody call it a war and they won't do what's needed to win the war because of the oil. Well, everybody has to have priorities. At what point will the elites decide that the priorities need to change? If I was the Soddy king I would give some serious thought to that question.
Posted by: Abu Uluque6305    2007-11-23 12:57  

#5  "Saudi Arabia, America's key partner in the Middle East..."

Yeah, and there is a tooth fairy, Santa, and Easter bunny too. As the saying goes: "With friends such as this who needs enemies?" I only wish Saudis would clamp down as much on terrorism and AQ as they do on women, anything anti-islam, and other religions.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-11-23 09:55  

#4  Bring on the $5.00 per gallon gasoline but slap the Saudis into next Tuesday.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-11-23 08:33  

#3  Tell me again about "Staunch WoT ally".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2007-11-23 07:06  

#2  Once, Maghreb was a domain of humans.
Posted by: twobyfour   2007-11-23 06:08  

#1  Saudis are taught to hate USA and the West from a young age.Only the Paleos are taught more hatred in the Middle East!!!!
Posted by: Paul   2007-11-23 04:48  

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