US national among 376 foreigners captured in Iraq (as insurgents)

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - An American national figures among 376 foreigners captured in Iraq as suspected insurgents since the beginning of the year, a spokesman for the US-led coalition said.

Major General Rick Lynch, spokesman for the Multinational Force - Iraq, said he did not have personal details on any of the detainees, but said they were captured in sweeps against insurgents.

The largest single group -- 78 -- came from Egypt, Lynch said.

The foreigners included 66 from Syria, 41 from Sudan, 32 from Saudi Arabia, 17 from Jordan and 13 from Iran, according to a chart Lynch provided.

Two of the foreigners came from Britain, and one each from Denmark, France, Israel, Ireland and the United States.

Their nationalities were confirmed through interrogation and based on documents they were carrying, Lynch said.

"With authority, we can say they came from those countries," Lynch added.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051020/pl_afp/iraqusprisoners

[LynnTheDem]

1. 376!!! OH MY GAWD lookit all them FOREIGN FIGHTERS!!!

That's just a HUGH!!11! amount!

SERIES!!!11!

[NorCalDem]

2. makes you wonder how many other

"insurgents" and "enemy combatants" they've pegged incorrectly, doesn't it? The question begs to asked, especially because we are prone to torturing those captured for information.

God damn our leaders are so F**KED up right now, I almost want to crawl into a hole and hide until it's all over. The only reason I won't is because if we all did that, it would never be over!

[chiffon]

3. David? David??? Is that you?.

Oh no. I forgot, you are already back home.

[sweetheart]

4. They can capture 18 million insurgents in new york

And most of them will be american nationals.

There comes a point, where the whole charm of nationalism wears thin,
and what they captured was a man who opposed their tyranny. Then
it must have been John Brown. And already, like much of US history,
he is pre-condemed for opposing criminal evil with violence. Wasn't
he a freedom fighter, or was the broken violence also making him
just another insurgent.

So a society of paid yes-men and women who won't dare bite the hand
that feeds, pays for mass executions of the insurgency, so with
a little help from the russians, a nuclear war is orchestrated, and
the whole problem of urban poverty eliminated once and for all,
wrote the social darwinist who saw the world as nothing but war,
nuclear weapons and weapon-war zero sum superiority.

[leftchick]

5. Israeli, Irishman among foreign fighters in Iraq-US

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-10-20T162512Z_01_MCC041128_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ.xml

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 300 foreign fighters have been captured in Iraq by U.S.-led troops and Iraqi security forces since April and their nationalities include Israeli, Irish and British, a senior U.S. commander said on Thursday.

Most came from other Arab states, however, Major General Rick Lynch said as the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, made a long-awaited visit to Baghdad to discuss how fellow Arab countries could help Iraq with its security.

"Terrorists and foreign fighters" were responsible for some of the worst insurgent attacks, such as suicide car bombings, Lynch said. But he said U.S.-led forces had foiled several attacks by arresting or killing many of them in recent months.

He told a news briefing 376 foreign fighters had been captured this year, of whom 311 were detained since the start of April. No comparable figures for the total number of guerrilla suspects captured were available, although some 12,000 are currently held in jail, most of those Iraqis.

The countries of origin most represented were Egypt (78), Syria (66), Sudan (41) and Saudi Arabia (32). The list included several other Middle Eastern countries and a number of European states such as France (1) and Denmark (1) as well as two Indians and an American.

[LynnTheDem]

6. 12,000 detained (more than Hussein ever detained) MOST of whom

are Iraqis.

376 "foreign fighters" out of 12,000.

Every city in AMERICA has more foreigners than that.

[hiabrill]

7. Yet the Bush Admin

Mainly blames Al-Qaida for the violence in Iraq......

[LynnTheDem]

12. The bushCabal lie.

All lies, all the time.

[Barrett808]

14. Which, I suppose, explains why we're marching around on the Syrian border

...while five Baghdad neighborhaoods are under the real insurgency's control.

[leftchick]

9. yes indeedy Lynn!

so much for the "fightin them there" horseSHIT!

(I am home from the freeper relatives and am still trying to get "fox and friends" out of my brain!)
:crazy:

[LynnTheDem]

13. And while our troops are Iraqmired, NO ONE'S HOME to guard us

from the terrorists already here and on their way here.

[Kailassa]

15. Look at the bright side of things.

With the mess * has made of America, Nobody would be interested in invading it these days. ;-)

[KG]

8. how about the 120,000 foriegners that make up the occupation?

[xchrom]

10. 32 from saudi arabia.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. All the foreign tourists will be much cozier when we get a

Disneyland set up there.... and the McDonalds on every corner... mmmmmm good.

On edit: I meant to say "terrorists" not tourists.

[pinniped]

16. All countries on the list will need to be invaded for sitting idly...

by and failing to stem the flow of these alleged foreign fighters allegedly entering Syria and subsequently Iraq.

- Syria
- Sudan
- Saudi Arabia
- Jordan
- Iran
- Britain
- Denmark
- France
- Israel
- Ireland
- United States.

[HuffleClaw]

17. yeah right.

you wanna bet at least some of 'em happened to have a video camera, a nikon and a few notebooks with 'em that were subsequently 'lost' ?