Unwilling Victims? U.S. Official: Some Iraqi Suicide Bombers May Have...

[w13rd0]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/World/iraq_suicide_bombers_040723.html

...Been Forced

Whose interests would be served by advancing the notion this story puts forth? Just interesting...

Oh, and remember, they aren't insurgents anymore, but "anti-Iraqi" forces...

[CaTeacher]

1. actually, that definitely does happen.

But it is very sad nonetheless.

[fob]

2. Negroponte sure isn't wasting any time.

That's all I'm sayin'.

[thebigidea]

3. I always did wonder about the strikes on Shi'ite civilian targets

Always seemed just a bit convenient, almost designed to give bad pr to the "insurgents."

Wolfie, I'm lookin' in your direction.

[struggle4progress]

4. "The big myth is that the foreign fighters are everywhere, ...

... that there are thousands," Custer said.



More evidence against the "flypaper" theory.

[daleo]

5. The U.S. forces have been pushing the "foreign fighter" angle

Now General Custer (irony overload in that name) is claiming that it is the Iraqi resistance (I presume that is what he really means to imply by Arab Street) who is pushing that line. I don't get it. Why is the official U.S. line being altered on this point?

"The big myth is that the foreign fighters are everywhere, that there are thousands," Custer said. "My feeling is that that's largely that Arab street . That's the story everybody wants to hear, and Iraqis don't want to admit that some of might be Iraqis."