Few Detainees in Iraq Are Foreign Fighters

[Sazar]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=13&u=/nm/20040706/ts_nm/iraq_usa_detainees_dc

:eek:

but we were all told there are gazillions of evil-doers in the prisons..

Only 90 of the more than 5,700 people in custody in Iraq as security risks are foreign fighters, defense officials said on Tuesday, a figure that suggests the Bush administration may have overstated the role of outside militants in the deadly insurgency.

The officials, who asked not to be identified, said the U.S. military command handling security detention facilities in Iraq confirmed a report in USA Today that fewer than 2 percent of those in custody were foreigners.

The small percentage indicates the war in Iraq may not have attracted very many Islamic militants from other countries.

:fu:

isalm is evil... the radical neo-cons say so... it cannot be that there are few islamic militants from other countries... bush says there are lots... :eek:

[Sazar]

and a simple segue from the above

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=6&u=/ap/20040706/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_death_on_the_tigris

at least the bastards are being prosecuted...

[vampireuk]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=13&u=/nm/20040706/ts_nm/iraq_usa_detainees_dc

:eek:

but we were all told there are gazillions of evil-doers in the prisons..



:fu:

isalm is evil... the radical neo-cons say so... it cannot be that there are few islamic militants from other countries... bush says there are lots... :eek:

Apologies from the United States: to the inmates at Iraqi prison systems, we would like to apologise to all the common thieves murderers and rapists for getting you mixed up with terrorists, we hope to have you all released as soon as possible as we realise that you have in fact done no wrong, and that guy simply fell on the knife

eh? :retard:

[UDawg]

Some how I don't have a problem with this. LOL!!!

[Son Goku]

Apologies from the United States: to the inmates at Iraqi prison systems, we would like to apologise to all the common thieves murderers and rapists for getting you mixed up with terrorists, we hope to have you all released as soon as possible as we realise that you have in fact done no wrong, and that guy simply fell on the knife

eh? :retard:

Oh, I see...so if a person gets put in jail for jay walking, they should get that, umm certain special treatment as well. Eh? Or considering that Sadaam would have gased his own brother (along with anyone who happened to be in the vicinity), when he didn't like the political advise his brother had given him; who knows what all them people are in there for...

hmm...kay, perhaps more of that compassionate conservatism we had come to "know and love" back in the 2000 elections :D

[UDawg]

All jay walkers should be stripped and piled like he-men at a Boy George concert until they lernt thems lesons real good.

[Son Goku]

All jay walkers should be stripped and piled like he-men at a Boy George concert until they lernt thems lesons real good.

bleh :(

I must say though, in all seriousness, that the accounts in Saz's second link, well sicken me, especially considering

USA Today reported that U.S.-led military forces had detained 17,700 people -- including some 400 foreign nationals -- in Iraq since last August who were considered to be enemy fighters or security risks. Most were freed after a review board found they didn't pose significant threats, the newspaper said.

True that the links might mention those we're detaining, but as to all inmates in Iraq, I don't think either of us has delusions about the kind of man Sadaum was, and just who might have gotten charged, for things with no more basis then what his own brother got gased for...

[PsychoSy]

Wow ... :eek:

When Bush announced years ago that he was expanding the U.S. Military, the majority of the taxpayers supported him.

Unfortunately, he didn't tell those taxpayers that the "expansion" was code for "enter the gulag business" ... :banghead:

[ChAsM]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=716&e=13&u=/nm/20040706/ts_nm/iraq_usa_detainees_dc

:eek:

but we were all told there are gazillions of evil-doers in the prisons..



:fu:

isalm is evil... the radical neo-cons say so... it cannot be that there are few islamic militants from other countries... bush says there are lots... :eek:

Perhaps they're better at concealing then we thought. Or, maybe they're better at evading capture. The Bush Administration has publicly said we have difficulty identifying "the enemy". That's why we need the help of the Iraqi people.


"The question here is not how many foreign fighters are involved, but who are they?" said Daniel Goure of the Lexington Institute, a private Washington think tank.


"Are they chiefly your average Joe from the Syrian mosque or the British mosque caught up in all the rhetoric?" Goure asked.


"Or are they people we should be more deeply concerned about -- perhaps with military and intelligence training from Syria and elsewhere? If these are serious, committed, well-trained ex-bin Laden jihadists, it's a significant factor," said Goure, using the term jihadists to mean militant Muslims battling the West.