(Saudi & Israeli)Study cites seeds of terror in Iraq (war itself)(B.Globe)

[Up2Late]

Remember how a few years ago, the Boston Globe publish several * damning articles, but for some odd reason, NONE of the other "newspapers" around the U.S. picked up these articles? Well, it's happened again!

Last Sunday, The Boston Globe published this article about two Saudi and Israeli investigations (that agree) but, completely contradict our so-called President's rational for the Iraq War. Unforunatly for us, the Boston Globe archives it's stories after only 2 days, so my link goes to a Canadian Blog page <http://winnipeg.indymedia.org> at this link: <http://www.100megs29.com/~imcwpg/item.php?1571S>

If you want to pay the Boston Globe to read this at their site, you are welcome to search "Study cites seeds of terror in Iraq" at <http://search.boston.com/index.jsp?title=c&summary=c&byline=c&body=c&source=All&collection=month&queryStr=%22Study%20cites%20seeds%20of%20terror%20in%20Iraq%22>

Boston Globe July 17, 2005

Study cites seeds of terror in Iraq

War radicalized most, probes find

By Bryan Bender

Washington -- New investigations by the Saudi Arabian government and an Israeli think tank -- both of which painstakingly analyzed the backgrounds and motivations of hundreds of foreigners entering Iraq to fight the United States -- have found that the vast majority of these foreign fighters are not former terrorists and became radicalized by the war itself.

The studies, which together constitute the most detailed picture available of foreign fighters, cast serious doubt on President Bush's claim that those responsible for some of the worst violence are terrorists who seized on the opportunity to make Iraq the ''central front" in a battle against the United States. ''The terrorists know that the outcome (in Iraq) will leave them emboldened or defeated," Bush said in his nationally televised address on the war at Fort Bragg in North Carolina last month. ''So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction." The US military is fighting the terrorists in Iraq, he repeated this month, ''so we do not have to face them here at home."

However, interrogations of nearly 300 Saudis captured while trying to sneak into Iraq and case studies of more than three dozen others who blew themselves up in suicide attacks show that most were heeding the calls from clerics and activists to drive infidels out of Arab land, according to a study by Saudi investigator Nawaf Obaid, a US-trained analyst who was commissioned by the Saudi government and given access to Saudi officials and intelligence.

A separate Israeli analysis of 154 foreign fighters compiled by a leading terrorism researcher found that despite the presence of some senior Al Qaeda operatives who are organizing the volunteers, ''the vast majority of (non-Iraqi) Arabs killed in Iraq have never taken part in any terrorist activity prior to their arrival in Iraq." ''Only a few were involved in past Islamic insurgencies in Afghanistan, Bosnia, or Chechnya," the Israeli study says. Out of the 154 fighters
analyzed, only a handful had past associations with terrorism, including six who had fathers who fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, said the report, compiled by the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel.

<http://www.100megs29.com/~imcwpg/item.php?1571S>
(more at link above)

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok this is aa good sign

saudi and Israelis working together? WOW

Taht said, their conclusion is not that surprising