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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:35:52 +0000, Doug Kanter wrote:


Do me a favor, OK? If I tell you I heard an American military official on
the radio, accept the fact that I heard it. Usually, I'm either in the
car
or working in the kitchen when I listen to the news and although I love
you dearly, I am not going to take notes just for you. Incidentally,
these
people were THERE in Iraq, not desk jockies sitting in the Pentagon.

Kind of depends on your definition of terms. While *all* reports I have
read, state that foreign militants are less than 10% of the insurgents, it
seems there are reports that those same militants make up 90% of the
suicide bombers. One caveat, while that 90% number is all over the
internet, it can be generally traced to one article written by Patrick
Quinn and Katherine Shrader and attributed to "one defense official".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...109609,00.html

Good link. Thanks.

``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.

Authorities have found little evidence that Iraqis have been behind the
near-daily stream of suicide attacks over the past six months, U.S. and
Iraqi intelligence officials said"



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Is that good enough for you, Doug?