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2007-11-24 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2007-11-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 He may have been a tool, but not a victim.

But the stats of US mlitary re foreign jihadis, Sodys in particular, tell somewhat different story.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-11-24 00:58|| 2007-11-24 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 This is interesting info from Captain's Quarters,

The Guardian waits until the end of the article to list the third-highest contributor to the terrorists in Iraq: Yemen. This has more significance than readers might conclude, given its position in the story. The ethnic Yemenis, not the Saudis, have been the biggest problem in the war on terror, and the Saudis have the same problem with them as we do.

One of the terror-war factoids that one hears repeatedly is that the majority of the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia. What most people don't know is that the majority of those were ethnic Yemenis from disputed territory between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, which the Saudis now control. The territory generates terrorists against the Sauds as much or more than against the Iraqis or the US, as al-Qaeda exploits the dispute to amplify hatred against the Saudis. That fits perfectly into the plans of Osama bin Laden, who wants to see the Saudi royal family overthrown and a new caliphate put in its place -- headed by Osama.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-24 10:39|| 2007-11-24 10:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Aren't the Bin Ladins ethnic Yemenis as well?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-11-24 15:37|| 2007-11-24 15:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Yup.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-24 15:41|| 2007-11-24 15:41|| Front Page Top

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