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2005-03-27 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-27 2:01:38 PM|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Foreign fighters who have entered Iraq in recent months are making up a growing percentage of insurgents

Does this mean the number of locals fighting the new regime has dropped, or more foreigners have joined up?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-27 8:08:17 PM|| 2005-03-27 8:08:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Foreign fighters who have entered Iraq in recent months are making up a growing percentage

Sounds like the latter, TW, although the former could be true too. The key graf is Abizaid saying "The Syrians are not doing everything we've asked them to do."

Getting nervous in Damascus, Assad? Oh, and about those bombings in the Christian part of Lebanon, you might want to keep in mind that Gen. Abazaid is a Christian Arab who studied for a time in Amman Jordan (still has friends there) and served in Lebanon w/ the UN Observers.

He's got your number, boy.

Posted by too true 2005-03-27 8:22:01 PM|| 2005-03-27 8:22:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think its a misleading headline and the reporter is an idiot. The commander said "the percentage of foreign fighters over the past several months seems to have increased."

That simply means that the percentage of foreign fighters have increased - not that the numbers has increased (as the title suggests).

Kind of like if there were 100 people there - ten of which are american (10%). 90 are killed including 2 americans leaving 8 americans (or 80%) and two non-americans (20%). This idiot reporter would report that there are more american fighters.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-27 8:38:37 PM|| 2005-03-27 8:38:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess everyone has noticed that Mathematics and Logic are not strong suits among the LLL Moonbats... Same can obviously be said for the MSM, Turks, Arabs, et al...

It's prolly a common genetic predisposition thingy. Got it? Better herd goats or go the "liberal arts" path...

Posted by .com 2005-03-27 8:52:28 PM|| 2005-03-27 8:52:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's from the Turkish press. For a while I thought it was from the Beeb, but checked the link. 'Nuff said.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-27 9:10:19 PM|| 2005-03-27 9:10:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Foreign fighters who have entered Iraq in recent months are making up a growing percentage of insurgents battling US troops and the countryâs fledgling security force, a senior US military commander said Sunday.

Not a problem. They can die too, like the ones that came before them.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-27 10:33:49 PM|| 2005-03-27 10:33:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought MSM were LLL moonbats.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-27 11:07:12 PM|| 2005-03-27 11:07:12 PM|| Front Page Top

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