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>Oh, so that's why the majority of terrorists in Iraq are from other countries.
They're not; that's US propaganda.
They're not; that's US propaganda.
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"apparently" this porn site is having a bit of luck getting a few more hits tonight.
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got any linked articles that might illustrate that point?
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Scoop 0
When you've seen friends shot and blown up I guess it tends to build up a little bit of frustration and anger. It is a warzone so we shouldn't be so shocked. Im sure it has happened and will continue to happen in many more conflicts.
Lucky they werent beaten to death in some crazy mob, towed through the streets behind a car then the charred bodies put on display hanging from some local landmark. Now that would be animal. Who would do such a thing?
Lucky they werent beaten to death in some crazy mob, towed through the streets behind a car then the charred bodies put on display hanging from some local landmark. Now that would be animal. Who would do such a thing?
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-07-05-detainees-usat_x.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1576666,00.html
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/051117_iraqforeignvol.pdf
Excerpted from the last one:
Nevertheless, these numbers pale beside those for the Iraqis themselves. By all reports, the insurgency remains largely homegrown. US experts and top level Iraqi officials estimated in November 2005 that at least 90% of the fighters were Iraqi and the total might be closer to 94% to 96%.. Coalition sources also indicated that only 3.8% of some13,300 detainees held in the fall of 2005 were foreign, and this percentage was lower than it had been in the early winter of 2005. Major General Rick Lynch in the Coalition command in Baghdad stated in October that only 376 of the detainees taken in 2005 were foreign: 78 Egyptians, 66 Syrians, 41 Sudanese, 32 Saudis, 1 American, and 1 Briton. These numbers had not changed significantly as of November 1, although the total number of detainees had risen to 13,900. . . .
These figures mark a sharp contrast to some allegations that the insurgency was being driven by large numbers of foreign volunteers, and that a flood of new volunteers came in 2005. As Major General Joseph J. Taluto, the commander of the US Army’s 42nd Infantry Division, which was based in Tikrit put it, “The foreign fighters attacks tend to be more spectacular, but the local national, the Saddamists, the Iraqi rejectionists, are much more problematic."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1576666,00.html
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/051117_iraqforeignvol.pdf
Excerpted from the last one:
Nevertheless, these numbers pale beside those for the Iraqis themselves. By all reports, the insurgency remains largely homegrown. US experts and top level Iraqi officials estimated in November 2005 that at least 90% of the fighters were Iraqi and the total might be closer to 94% to 96%.. Coalition sources also indicated that only 3.8% of some13,300 detainees held in the fall of 2005 were foreign, and this percentage was lower than it had been in the early winter of 2005. Major General Rick Lynch in the Coalition command in Baghdad stated in October that only 376 of the detainees taken in 2005 were foreign: 78 Egyptians, 66 Syrians, 41 Sudanese, 32 Saudis, 1 American, and 1 Briton. These numbers had not changed significantly as of November 1, although the total number of detainees had risen to 13,900. . . .
These figures mark a sharp contrast to some allegations that the insurgency was being driven by large numbers of foreign volunteers, and that a flood of new volunteers came in 2005. As Major General Joseph J. Taluto, the commander of the US Army’s 42nd Infantry Division, which was based in Tikrit put it, “The foreign fighters attacks tend to be more spectacular, but the local national, the Saddamists, the Iraqi rejectionists, are much more problematic."
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>Oh, so that's why the majority of terrorists in Iraq are from other countries.
They're not; that's US propaganda.
No Bill every thing on CNN and Fox is true how dare you!!!!!!!!
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When you've seen friends shot and blown up I guess it tends to build up a little bit of frustration and anger. It is a warzone so we shouldn't be so shocked. Im sure it has happened and will continue to happen in many more conflicts.
Lucky they werent beaten to death in some crazy mob, towed through the streets behind a car then the charred bodies put on display hanging from some local landmark. Now that would be animal. Who would do such a thing?
Indeed. I can't even begin to imagine what impact it makes on a person to see your family being blown to bits by a "smart bomb" dropped from a b-52, who came to "save you" in the first place.
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Indeed. I can't even begin to imagine what impact it makes on a person to see your family being blown to bits by a "smart bomb" dropped from a b-52, who came to "save you" in the first place.
Yeah, hearts and minds in action. Haha. Anyway, doesn't make it any less relevant for those paticular soldiers.
What a fubar....
linz
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