"On Sunday, two Palestinian groups, Fatah and Islamic Jihad, said they were sending suicide bombers to Iraq to increase the number of attacks on the coalition forces." http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1049077442217 also form Jpost article: "Palestinians honor bomber of US troops By KHALED ABU TOAMEH " Palestinians in the refugee camp of Jenin have named their main square after the Iraqi army officer who carried out the first suicide attack against the US Army in Iraq. " AP: "A Palestinian suicide bomber wounded 30 people outside a packed cafe in northern Israel on Sunday, an attack the Islamic Jihad called "Palestine’s gift to the heroic people of Iraq." The blast raised Israeli fears of more bombings as the war in Iraq intensifies. The militant group said a vanguard of Palestinians has arrived in Baghdad ready to kill American and British soldiers in suicide missions. The claim came a day after a noncommissioned Iraqi army officer driving a taxi detonated explosives at a U.S. checkpoint in Iraq, killing himself and four American soldiers." http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/ar...ype=news&article_path=/news/news030331_13.htm
In my mind this is a good thing. Why don't they get a big caravan, cross over the border, and get blown up by US aircraft. Sounds good to me. Jihad.
On a recent News Report with Jim Lehrer, they were discussing the switch in Iraqi tactics. One dimension they touched on was that these suicide attacks will make our soldiers much less likely to trust Iraqi civilians or to accept surrendering Iraqi troops and this plays into Saddam's attepmts to win the propaganda war and the war for Iraqis' hearts and minds.