Most fighters in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia

[FreedomAngel82]

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8293410/

Snip: <By Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit
June 20, 2005

An NBC News analysis of hundreds of foreign fighters who died in
Iraq over the last two years reveals that a majority came from the
same country as most of the 9/11 hijackers — Saudi Arabia.

Among the suicide bombers was Ahmed al-Ghamdi, a one-time medical
student and son of a Saudi diplomat. In December 2004, he climbed
into a truck in Mosul and blew himself up.

On an Internet video, another Saudi says goodbye to his mother, then
drives an ambulance full of explosives into a building.

They are among more than 400 militants from 21 countries whose
deaths were celebrated on Islamic Web sites over the last two years.

"By far the nationality that comes up over and over again is Saudi
Arabia," says Evan Kohlmann, an NBC News terrorism expert.

The NBC News analysis of Web site postings found that 55 percent of
foreign insurgents came from Saudi Arabia, 13 percent from Syria, 9
percent from North Africa and 3 percent from Europe. >

[aquart]

1. Well, Saudis have killed our people before, haven't they?

[Alpharetta]

2. That does not mean the insurgency is mostly Saudi fighters

[Alpharetta]

7. the media is uninterested in clarifying the nature of the insurgency

It disappoints me the media is uninterested in clarifying the nature of the insurgency.

ABC is poking holes in those theories that Syria or Iran is the main culprit behind the insurgency.

What I don't understand is why ABC is passing on a golden opportunity to say what the insurgency is and is not.

- how organized
- various groups and their motivations
- how funded
- how armed

[Kikosexy2]

3. Duh???...did...

we invade the wrong country or what?

[Selatius]

4. Saudi Arabian oppression breeds radicalism

Are all these guys Wahhabists? This is the same radicalism that was seen under the Shah, and it eventually boiled over and helped to cause his downfall, but it led to Iran as we know today.

[Kagemusha]

5. Uh. Most foreign fighters. Maybe. But most fighters?

What happened to you know, Iraqi fighters? Or does such a thing exist in the current lexicon?

[cynatnite]

6. The subject of your post is misleading

You might want to change that.

[Walt Starr]

8. Then that settles it! We have absolutely no other choice but to attack

Syria and Iran!

[warrens]

9. It's because Georgie wouldn't hold hands with them

Jealous little suckers.

[TXlib]

10. It looks like we Shocked&Awed the wrong country

Can we finally assassinate the Saudi Royal Family and put our puppet government in place?