Foreign militants fuel anti-U.S. fight

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/7220542.htm

MANY WITH AL-QAIDA TIES ACTIVE IN IRAQ, OFFICIALS SAY
By Richard C. Paddock, Alissa J. Rubin and Greg Miller
Los Angeles Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Answering Osama bin Laden's call for holy war in Iraq, hundreds of followers from at least eight nations have entered the country and are playing a major role in attacking Western targets and Iraqi civilians, U.S. and Iraqi officials say.

Operatives of the Al-Qaida network and affiliated extremist groups are collaborating with Saddam Hussein loyalists, officials say, forming an array of shadowy alliances that are emerging as one of the biggest challenges to U.S. efforts to bring stability to the war-torn country.

Center for extremism

Some officials believe that Iraq is replacing Afghanistan as the worldwide center of Islamist militancy and becoming the prime locale for fighters who are eager to confront Americans on Arab soil.

As many as 2,000 Islamist fighters from as far as Sudan, Algeria and Afghanistan are operating in Iraq, officials say. Ansar al-Islam, an Iraqi group affiliated with Al-Qaida and previously active in northern Iraq, also has made a comeback, officials say.

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Trouble is, I think Bushco expected all these people to be "awed" by his mighty night. They're probably gonna keep on coming. America has become the country people love to hate. Must be our "freedoms." Or... possibly the fact that we just killed 10,000 innocent Iraqi citizens.

[ima_sinnic]

1. This is absolute madness

:cry: :scared: :cry:

[DUreader]

3. Madness?... I call this absolute Bullshit... not 1 captured or killed

If there were It would be plastered 24/7 all over the news because so

far this remains an allegation and you can bet they are dyin' to say

"see...see... we told you so.. TOLD YOU SO!!!


Because they have been wrong about every single thing about this

duckspeak quackmire.

Cakewalk MotherF***ers that they are.


ps thanks ima_sinnic for a good line to riff off.

[Barrett808]

2. So says Talibani

Color me skeptical.

[dArKeR]

4. I don't believe foreign people have entered Iraq. The Iraqi resistance

wouldn't accept them for fear they are CIA infiltrators. This is just common sense from Spy/Resistance Class 101. And if you can't really imagine this then think of it in terms of something like a GOP Whore could understand. (Terminator 2: The monster is chasing you but you don't know who the monster is because it looks like everyone else. So are you going to trust someone you don't know? (Maybe a video game example would be more understandable!))

www.wbur.org had a panel of experts show which said the same thing. About 4-5 months ago. I posted it but I can't find the link.

(In fact the foreign fighters wouldn't know who to trust either. They have no food, no home, no place to sleep, no weapons, and would stick out like sore thumbs. And does anyone know about languanges? Did you know most countries have about 10 dialects within their country? The Philippines has about 1000 dialects. So what languauge are the foreign fighters using so they don't stick out like sore thumbs?