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| Saudi insurgents turning up in Iraq |
| 2004-07-11 |
| An increasing number of Saudis who crossed the border into Iraq to fight the U.S.-led military occupation are returning home to plot attacks against the Saudi government and Western targets in the desert kingdom, according to Western counterterrorism officials and Saudis with ties to militant groups. The Iraq veterans are serving as fresh recruits for an underground network in Saudi Arabia that, until recently, was led by an older generation of fighters that had trained in Afghanistan and was closely connected to al Qaeda and its founder, Saudi native Osama bin Laden. Many of those leaders have been killed or captured in recent months by Saudi security forces. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 The real reason they are returning home is they know the Iraqi's won't be so nice to them when they get caught and they stick out like sore thumbs to the locals. Now that Iraqi security is "in charge" the beatings, torture and stuff that doesn't happen when the US forces get them will. Wahib does't want a electric anal probe administered by a practiced hand. So they are getting the hell out of Dodge. Now they are "trained" the limpies in the Saudi branch of Osama and sons hope to use them in that kingdom. It is yet to be seen if these punkls will be anything more than a nusance that backfires on Osma with the public. After all they killed far more Iraqi citizens than "infidel crusaders." You can expect more of the same at home. |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-07-11 5:26:37 PM |
| #1 Dan, the headline should prolly read "Saudi Insurgents Returning Home From Iraq and Causing Trouble." The WaPo has a similar and very detailed story on page A1 today. As I read this article, it occurred to me that these fighters are now al-Q's "Individual Ready Reserve", leaving the theater of war (because it's getting harder to stay alive/free in Iraq?) to go home and take potshots at easier softer targets. The article was well done, except there is no reference in it to the fact that the House of Sod is complicit in this mess, rather than an innocent bystander. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-07-11 11:44:51 AM |