CIA says Iraq is now terrorist training camp

[Pawel K]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050622/pl_nm/security_iraq_cia_dc

A classified report from the U.S. spy agency says Iraqi and foreign fighters are developing a broad range of deadly skills, from car bombings and assassinations to tightly coordinated conventional attacks on police and military targets, the official said.

Once the insurgency ends, Islamic militants are likely to disperse as highly organized battle-hardened combatants capable of operating throughout the Arab-speaking world and in other regions including Europe.

[pfitz59]

1. On the job training.......

new kids on the block

[sniffa]

2. see? bush wasn't Lying

[Spinzonner]

3. Well, now that we have them all in one place, all we have to do is ...

[Up2Late]

4. Thank You Mr. Obvious

NOW GO FIND THEM!

[Inland]

5. But NOBODY could EVER have predicted that blah blah blah

and on it goes. We TOLD you not to invade and this was one of the very things we said could happen.

The only surprise is that anyone bothers to have a "classified report" stating the obvious.

Bush sucks.

[Up2Late]

6. Iraq creating new breed of jihadists, says CIA (The Guardian)

("It will be worse than Afghanistan...," Oh Great! Way to go George!)

Iraq creating new breed of jihadists, says CIA

Ewen MacAskill, Duncan Campbell and Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday June 23, 2005
The Guardian

The war in Iraq is creating a new breed of Islamic jihadists who could go on to destabilise other countries, according to a CIA report. The CIA believes Iraq to be potentially worse than Afghanistan, which produced thousands of jihadists in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of the recruits to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida had fought in Afghanistan.

The sobering caution came as a senior British anti-terrorism source warned that those trained in terror techniques in Iraq could use their newly-acquired skills in Britain at the end of the war. The CIA report, completed last month, remains classified. But a CIA source yesterday confirmed that its broad conclusions, disclosed by the New York Times yesterday, were accurate.

The concern expressed in the CIA report contrasts with the optimism of US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld two years ago when he welcomed the prospect of Iraq as a magnet for jihadists. The Foreign Office and British security services are sceptical about the CIA assessment that the insurgency could spill into other countries. Security sources said that there was only a "trickle" of recruits from Britain joining the insurgency in Iraq.

If there was to be a spill-over, Saudi Arabia is potentially vulnerable because many of the Arab fighters in Iraq originate from there. Jamal Khashoggi, media adviser to the Saudi ambassador in London, said yesterday he agreed in part with the US assessment. "It will be worse than Afghanistan," he said. "We are talking about a very brutal type, a very weird version of Islam in Iraq. It is very scary."

(more at link above)

[clydefrand]

7. So we just eliminate everybody in Iraq and we'll have 'em all,

right? If a few escape to another country, we do the same there until no one is left but RW fundies.

[jarab]

8. Duplicate/ Lock.

Try this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1571283&mesg_id=1571283