Sunday, July 15, 2007
What are friends for?
If not to provide the "suiciders" so dear to the heart of Our Dear Embattled Leader. According to US and Iraqi sources, the largest portion of the bombers comes from the folks who give Dick Cheney his marching orders.
About 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia; 15% are from Syria and Lebanon; and 10% are from North Africa, according to official U.S. military figures made available to The Times by the senior officer. Nearly half of the 135 foreigners in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq are Saudis, he said.The Saudis say they are doing all they can to stop this flow of bomber fodder, but others see a more self serving reason behind their inability to stop them.
Fighters from Saudi Arabia are thought to have carried out more suicide bombings than those of any other nationality, said the senior U.S. officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the subject's sensitivity. It is apparently the first time a U.S. official has given such a breakdown on the role played by Saudi nationals in Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency.
He said 50% of all Saudi fighters in Iraq come here as suicide bombers. In the last six months, such bombings have killed or injured 4,000 Iraqis.
Others contend that Saudi Arabia is allowing fighters sympathetic to Al Qaeda to go to Iraq so they won't create havoc at home...This seems far more valid as it lets the Saudis kill two birds with one stone, as well as a lot of Shiites. Dick Cheney is not expected to do anything to alter this situation that favors his masters.
....Askari also alleged that imams at Saudi mosques call for jihad, or holy war, against Iraq's Shiites and that the government had funded groups causing unrest in Iraq's largely Shiite south. Sunni extremists regard Shiites as unbelievers.
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