Iraq becomes prime training ground for export of Jihadists

[babylonsister]

http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/iraq-becomes-prime-training-ground-for-export-of-jihadists/20074919-j7h.html

Iraq becomes prime training ground for export of Jihadists

June 19, 2007 - 11:43AM

Iraq has overtaken Afghanistan as an ideal training ground for Jihadists to export their battle across and beyond the Middle East, experts say.

The new generation of Islamist militants in Iraq are more battle-hardened than their veteran anti-Soviet counterparts from Afghanistan, and the export of their Muslim "holy war" to calmer Arab countries has become a phenomenon.

The presence of Saudi, Jordanian and Yemeni volunteers in the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in north Lebanon, as well as arrests in Jordan and Saudi Arabia of Jihadists coming from Iraq illustrate this.

"The Iraqi resistance doesn't need people inside, they have more than they need, freeing up foreign fighters to fight elsewhere," said Marwan Shehadeh, an expert in radical movements with the Vision Research Institute in Amman.

"They are in contact with each other because Salafi (strict Muslim) ideology is spread all over Arab and Islamic countries," he said.

"They're ready to work, they're well trained and ready to start a global war against their enemies, not only the United States and Israel but also Western-backed Arab regimes."

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[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Thanks to Dubya and his supporters, Osama can realistically say "Mission Accomplished".

His efforts to start a worldwide Jihad, put an end to Israeli/Palestinian peace efforts, destabilize the whole region, and make the United States into a pariah, have realized more success than he could have dreamed.

All thanks to an immoral and incredibly stupid response to an act carried out by a few fanatics that should have been handled, from the first, as a crime instead as an act of war.

[babylonsister]

2. It's mind-blowing what OBL has accomplished thanks to his US enablers. nt