"-rick-" wrote in message
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thunder wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:46:55 -0400, NOYB wrote:

And all of them come from outside Iraq and they admit this freely on TV
when they are interrogated.


BS. If all of these terrorists are coming from outside of Iraq, where
are
the bodies? In every study I could find, foreign fighters make up a very
small percentage of those fighting, typically less than 10%.. NOYB, you
have been using this "foreign fighter" argument for some time. Come on
now, show us a source. Where are the numbers?

There was a US General on Faux News (of all places) this morning
addressing that very question. He flatly stated that 95% of the
insurgency are disenfranchised Sunni Iraqis and maybe 5% tops are foreign.


What the reporters are reporting vs. what the statistics actually show has
created a completely skewed and erroneous picture of what is actually taking
place. If you read the following article, you'll see a slant by the
journalist to suggest that the terrorists are actually domestic insurgents.
However, I've clipped two important passages with statistics that completely
refute his claim.

First passage:
" increasingly violent suicide and roadside bombings are expected to
continue at a rate of 65 daily -- about 500 a week"

Second passage:
"Only two or three of the hundreds of suicide bombings that have occurred
since the war began appear to have been committed by Iraqis, apparently
radical Kurds from the north, according to the military intelligence
assessment.
The foreigners detained by U.S. forces in Iraq have come mostly from Egypt
and, second, Saudi Arabia, with others from Libya, Sudan and Tunisia, U.S.
military officials said.

Some recently discovered roadside bombs bear the earmarks of Hezbollah,
suggesting that insurgents have been schooled outside of Iraq."



So if the bombings are occurring at a rate of 500 week, and only 200-300
have been committed by Iraqis since March of 2003 (roughly 120 weeks), it's
logical to conclude that an *extreme* minority (less than 1%) of the attacks
are by Iraqis rather than by foreigners.