Iraq begins to export Islamist fighters - Looks like we are going to have to fight them over here

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/May/focusoniraq_May153.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=

May 2007



WASHINGTON - The war in Iraq, which President George W. Bush said was necessary to combat Islamic extremism, is beginning to export guerilla fighters to neighboring countries and beyond, The New York Times reported on its website late Sunday.

Citing unnamed US, European and Middle Eastern government officials, the newspaper said some of the fighters appear to be spreading around the world in waves of Iraqi refugees crossing borders.

But others are dispatched from Iraq for specific missions, the report said.

Major General Achraf Rifi, general director of the Internal Security Forces in Lebanon, is quoted as saying in a recent interview that “if any country says it is safe from this, they are putting their heads in the sand.”

Last week, the Lebanese Army found itself in a battle against a militant group, Fatah al Islam, whose ranks included as many as 50 veterans of the war in Iraq, according to General Rifi.

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1. But you heard Dick Morris. He said as long as US soldiers are in Iraq, the

terrorists don't need to attack us on Wall Street when they can kill Amurkins in Eye-rack.:sarcasm: