Posted by
Brian Peters on Thursday, November 22, 2007 1:37:50 PM
The New York Times, meanwhile, quoted senior American military officials as saying that Saudi Arabia and Libya were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks.
The report said that data came largely from documents and computers discovered in September, when a U.S. raid near the Syrian border targeted insurgents believed to be responsible for smuggling the vast majority of foreign fighters into Iraq.
A key discovery was a listing of hometowns and other details for more than 700 fighters brought into Iraq since August 2006, the newspaper said, according to the U.S. officials who were not further identified. Saudis accounted for the largest number of fighters listed with 305, followed by Libyans with 137. United States officials have previously offered only rough estimates of nationalities of such fighters.
Hello Dear Reader: Happy Thanksgiving. I am watching football awaiting other family members to finish up cooking, one of the rare days that I don't do the majority of cooking. That aside, I was reading a story about Al Qaeda in Iraq, attacking and killing Iraqi soldiers, taking their Humvee's, killing more people...all in the name of Islam.
Then reading at the the end of the story was this little nugget, 60% of the foreign fighters are coming from Saudi Arabia (same country that 'whips' innocent women like slaves ) and the supposeably World friendly Libya.
Growing up on a farm, we had to deal with rats. Sometimes we and our dogs, would kill a rat here or there about the farm, but the only way to get rid of the rats was to take out their nest. Now having lived down in the swampy South, I've had to learn how to deal with snakes. Again, the same thing, I will kill a snake here or there about my property, but to eliminate the snake problem, I've had to track down and find the nest, and whalla, no more snakes.
Seems now our military and some semblance of competent intelligence agencies, have tracked the rats and snakes back to their nest. Now it's time to deal with them. Oh, yeah, it's dangerous, getting into a nest, one can easily get bit, rats have rabies, snakes their poison, so it has to be quick, overwhelming, and decisive in the attack upon the nest. My family, the dogs, and I have all had success going that route.