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To: Brumar89 who wrote (171921)	10/4/2005 11:38:43 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) of 281500

...Jabor said intelligence indicated some Arab militants had already left Iraq after losing ground during last month's assault by U.S. and Iraqi forces on the northern town of Tal Afar, where more than 1,500 insurgents were captured. "They are leaving Iraq to transfer their training skills in car bombings to their original countries," he said. Iraq has become a magnet for Islamic militants similar to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan two decades ago, U.S. and Arab security officials say. While the Afghan war against the Soviets was largely fought on a rural battlefield, security officials say Iraq is providing extremists with more comprehensive skills including training in operations for populated areas. But Jabor said Zarqawi's recruitment of Iraqi militants such as Abu Azzam indicated more Iraqis could be joining al Qaeda, even though many local insurgents owe their loyalties to tribal and other nationalist leaders rather than foreign Islamists. "Some of the experience has been transferred to Iraqis like Abu Azzam and others, but I believe some of the leaders of the Arab Afghans will remain in Iraq," Jabor added, referring to foreign Arabs, like the Jordanian Zarqawi, who had operated in Afghanistan alongside the likes of Osama bin Laden... today.reuters.co.uk ----------- Don't you feel so much safer now? Just give it time for the seeds we have planted to give fruit...spreading democracy my left foot, more like spreading terrorism and instability.

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