Saudi fighters cross border to kill 'infidels'

Saudi fighters cross border to kill 'infidels'


By Faiza Saleh Ambah
ASSOCIATED PRESS



RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — There have been signs for months, despite official denials, that Saudi extremists are traveling to Iraq to take on U.S.-led forces, Saudi journalists who monitor Islamic militancy say.

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Many of the men going to Iraq previously fought in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Bosnia, and were experts on guerrilla warfare, said Abdullah Bjad al-Otaibi, who once counted himself among the extremists and now writes about them for Saudi newspapers.

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An Iraqi investigator, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the Saudis were among those arrested who admitted connections to Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network. Al Qaeda is a Sunni Muslim splinter group whose followers may have seen no contradiction in attacking a shrine holy to the minority Shi'ite Muslim sect.

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"American pressure on the kingdom and the fact that Saudi Arabia itself has suffered from militants has made it difficult for people to openly support the resistance in Iraq," Al-Riyadh journalist Mansour al-Nogaidan said.



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http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030831-121933-2108r.htm

So, some of those with al Qaeda ties who lately have been found in Iraq are just recent transplants. But, would Barney-Dropper, Rummy, et al., want us to view it that way? Doubt it.

:scared:

and this is just the tip of the ice-berg.

involved. There are a lot of people in the ME who know nothing BUT war and really don't want Bush's brand of freedom stinking up the neighborhood.