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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: neolib who wrote (163357)6/1/2005 1:55:52 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The Iraqi sources I've seen (mostly translations from Iraqi newspapers translated by blogs), plus occasion American remarks, differentiate between the insurgents in general and the suicide bombers. Most of the insurgents are Iraqi, but they say over 90% of the suicide bombers who could be identified were foreign. Presumably the suicide bomber hierarchy, the bomb-makers and planners and drivers and minders and so forth, are a mixture of foreign jihadis (like Zarqawi) and Iraqis.

The foreign fighters are not very popular even in Al Anbar. Did you see the reports from Al Qaim where the Marines sat outside of town and watched a running gunbattle between the local tribes and the foreign fighters?
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