Extent of Foreign Fighters in Iraqi Insurgency May Be Less Than Often Port

Extent of Foreign Fighters in Iraqi Insurgency May Be Less Than Often Portrayed

By Jim Krane Associated Press Writer
Published: May 3, 2004


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. officials have for months publicly promoted the notion that foreign fighters and terrorists are playing a major role in the anti-American insurgency in Fallujah and the rest of Iraq.

By blaming foreigners, U.S. authorities hope to quash the idea that Iraqis are rising up against military occupation and frame the conflict as part of the wider war on terror. However, foreigners play a tiny role in Iraq's insurgency, many military experts say.

In Fallujah, U.S. military leaders say around 90 percent of the 1,000 or more fighters battling the Marines are Iraqis. To date, there have been no confirmed U.S. captures of foreign fighters in Fallujah - although a handful of suspects have been arrested.

Those who have spent time inside Fallujah have described a city consumed with the fight - fathers and sons fighting for the local mujahedeen and wives and daughters cooking and caring for the wounded.
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I'll check it out.

ass and seeing the light of day!

What passes for journalism these days is sickening. If these people had been doing their job from the beginning this damn country wouldn't be the sheep that they are!

and thought pretty much the same thing.

Someone here recently asked how many ways can a person say 'Duh'?

Many wearing the uniform of the US military.

for the insurgency in Fallujah. That is why it would have been a mistake to try and retake it with force last week. The problem has to worked from different angles.