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99 foreign fighters detained in Iraq (Make them all sing!)
Associated Press /Philadelphia Daily NewsPosted on Mon, Jul. 12, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq is currently detaining 99 foreign fighters, the majority of whom are Syrians, Iraqâs human rights minister said Monday. Bakhtiyar Amin said the detainees include 26 Syrians, 14 Saudis, 14 Iranians, 12 Egyptians, nine Sudanese, five Palestinians, five Yemenis, five Jordanians, five Tunisians, one Lebanese, one Moroccan, one Turk and one Afghan. (No more jihad for these schmucks!) Amin said last week that the government was holding just 29 foreign guerrilla suspects at the maximum security section of Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, a fraction of the 5,500 suspected fighters being detained. The U.S. military said at the time that some 60 other foreign fighters were being held elsewhere in Abu Ghraib and at Camp Bucca in southern Iraq. (60 others, and how many more of these lice have already been wacked since the Iraqi ground war began?) U.S. officials have long blamed the violence on foreign fighters who crossed into Iraq to wreak havoc. But military officials and analysts said recently the fighters are mainly Sunni Iraqis, angry at the defeat of their patron, Saddam Hussein. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-07-12 |
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