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2004-07-06 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve 2004-07-06 10:55:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 According to the first sentence of this article "It is well known by now that the forces confronting the soldiers of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq include a significant number of foreign "jihadis." "

I'd like to believe this, but according to an article in USA Today "Only 90 of the more than 5,700 people in custody in Iraq (news - web sites) as security risks are foreign fighters, defense officials said on Tuesday, a figure that suggests the Bush administration may have overstated the role of outside militants in the deadly insurgency. " (The link is at http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-07-05-detainees-usat_x.htm" since it doesn't seem to show up when I preview.)

Do we not have a clue as to who we are fighting, or are we just not catching the foreign jihadis? I certainly don't have a firm grasp on who we're up against, what concerns me is that I'm not sure our military in Iraq does either - or is this a case of different sources (Wash. Times & Reuters/USAToday) pushing their own point of view?

Posted by Dakotah 2004-07-06 4:28:42 PM|| 2004-07-06 4:28:42 PM|| Front Page Top

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