Foreigners Blamed for Iraq Suicide Attacks By PATRICK QUINN and KATHERINE SHRADER ASSOCIATED PRESS The vast majority of suicide attackers in Iraq are thought to be foreigners - mostly Saudis and other Gulf Arabs - and the trend has become more pronounced this year with North Africans also streaming in to carry out deadly missions, U.S. and Iraqi officials say. The bombers are recruited from Sunni communities, smuggled into Iraq from Syria after receiving religious indoctrination, and then quickly bundled into cars or strapped with explosive vests and sent to their deaths, the officials told The Associated Press. The young men are not so much fighters as human bombs - a relatively small but deadly component of the Iraqi insurgency. "The foreign fighters are the ones that most often are behind the wheel of suicide car bombs, or most often behind any suicide situation," said U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Don Alston, spokesman for the Multinational Force in Iraq. Officials have long believed that non-Iraqis infiltrating the country through its porous borders with Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia were behind most suicide missions, and the wave of bloody strikes in recent months has confirmed that thinking.
From your perspective that everyone not in your American Legion chapter is a foreigner and a commie, I'm sure this is true.
The vast majority of guns and artillery used by the Viet Cong weren't Vietnamese either. Our people were still being killed, though.
Thank god we have american soldiers over there, not foreigners. (Ooops - I forgot Poland. Those are foreigners)
If I understand Ian's point, it's that suicide terrorism didn't exist in Iraq until we attacked the country for being part of a network responsible for suicide terrorism on 9/11/01.
Except our foriegn soldiers who are using enlistment as their ticket to citizenship. (Kind of reminds me of Rome towards the end - after the Germanic tribles started kicking ass.)
I'm going to pretend you didn't just compare american soldiers to foreign terrorists blowing up innocent people in Iraq.
Oh, do share. So what is your point? The Iraq adventure is "worth it" because our guys are keeping us safe here at home by drawing fire over there? That we've created a vacuum of power that allows terrorism to flourish?
Since when are "North Americans" a unified ethnic and cultural group with 2 thousand years of written history?
Since when has the Middle East been a unified ethnic and cultural group with 2 thousand years of written history. . . Do your homework, cupcake, its a diverse, diverse world out there. (or at least watch Lawrence of Arabia)
There are over 150,000 foreign soldiers in Iraq - American troops and their coalition allies. And these foreign invasion troops have acted as a magnet to bring in other foreigners. A sad consequence of the BushCo lies and manipulations.