(New UN Report) Al Qaeda gains recruits from Iraq war - UN study

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2006/09/28/world/al-qaeda-gains-recruits-from-iraq-war-un-study.html

Al Qaeda gains recruits from Iraq war - UN study
28/09/2006 00:33

By Irwin Arieff

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. report released on Wednesday said the Iraq war provided al Qaeda with a training centre and recruits, reinforcing a U.S. intelligence study blaming the conflict for a surge in Islamic extremism.

The report by terrorism experts working for the U.N. Security Council said al Qaeda was playing a central role in the fighting in Iraq as well as inspiring a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, several hundred miles (km) away.

"New explosive devices are now used in Afghanistan within a month of their first appearing in Iraq," said the report. "And while the Taliban have not been found fighting outside Afghanistan/Pakistan, there have been reports of them training in both Iraq and Somalia."

Al Qaeda, it said, "has gained by continuing to play a central role in the fighting (in Iraq) and in encouraging the growth of sectarian violence, and Iraq has provided many recruits and an excellent training ground," it said. more: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2006/09/28/world/al-qaeda-gains-recruits-from-iraq-war-un-study.html

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Even bush's own govt officials are saying it IS true!

But bush says it ain't true.

So STOP SAYING THAT!!!

DEAD...DESTROYED...MAIMED...RUINED...for bush's lies.

How many more, America???