CIA says Iraq is now a terrorist training ground, CIA says

[BigBearJohn]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA believes the Iraq insurgency poses an international threat and may produce better-trained Islamic terrorists than the 1980s Afghanistan war that gave rise to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Wednesday.

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.

Fighters leaving Iraq would primarily pose a challenge for their countries of origin including Saudi Arabia and Jordan

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

[cyberpj]

1. Haven't heard it on the news yet -they're too busy talking about Durbin nt

[Mythsaje]

2. But we're fighting them in Iraq so we don't have to fight them...

...oh.

[LiberalFighter]

3. How could Iraq be a terrorist training ground??? when...

the United States military occupies and controls the country?

[jmaier]

5. Hmmm

I thought we'd go after the leadership of any country harboring and abetting terrorists?

[Jacobin]

7. Be George, I think you are onto something!!

We need to pull all the troops out and re-invade it!!!

[LiberalFighter]

8. Then they should get cracking on it

[opiate69]

4. But... but... but...

"For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place." *

"I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. " *

"Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror." *

"The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free." *

"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace." *

"We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without him."
Iyad Allawi

"In Iraq, we saw a threat, and we realised that after 11 September, we must take threats seriously, before they fully materialise. Saddam Hussein now sits in a prison cell. America and the world are safer for it." *

I'm getting mixed signals here...

[killbotfactory]

6. Last throes....

It's all peaches and sunshine for Cheney.

[cynatnite]

9. No training is worth anything unless it's hands on

:sarcasm:

[Botany]

10. Mission Accomplished

No need to sneak into the US to kill Americans ..... * now sends our
troops to them ....

fuckwit

[BigBearJohn]

11. Countdown covers this tonite. Says Iraq bigger training ground than Afghan

[seabeyond]

12. cool our soldiers training the terrorist with our soldiers bodies

so they can terrorize thru out the world. interesting concept. bush fails at EVERYTHING. when are people going ot get it.