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Originally Posted by daswig
coppertop, nope. I also don't think that most of the insurgents in Fallujah are Iraqis either.
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Your argument is BS, because it is not supported by the facts, It is required,
though, to rationalize our disfunctional, national leadership and it's criminal
military aggression.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002091915_fighters16.html">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002091915_fighters16.html</a>
Insurgents mostly Iraqis
By John Hendren
Los Angeles Times
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq — The battle for the city of Fallujah is giving U.S. military commanders an increasingly clear picture of this country's insurgency, and it is the portrait of a homegrown uprising overwhelmingly dominated by Iraqis, not by foreign fighters.
Of the more than 1,000 men between the ages of 15 and 55 who were captured in intense fighting in the center of the insurgency over the past week, just 15 are confirmed foreign fighters, Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. ground commander in Iraq, said yesterday.
There is evidence that organized foreign fighters were present. One dead guerrilla bore Syrian identification. A number of insurgents believed to be foreigners wore similar black "uniforms," each with black flak vests and weapons superior to those of their Iraqi allies.
There has been an intense focus on the terror network of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by U.S. and Iraqi officials who have insisted that most Iraqis generally support the country's interim government. However, U.S. commanders said their best estimates of the proportion of foreigners among their enemy was about 5 percent.
The overwhelming majority of insurgents, several senior commanders said, are drawn from the tens of thousands of former government employees whose sympathies lie with the toppled regime of Saddam Hussein, unemployed "criminals" who find work laying roadside bombs for about $500 each, and homegrown Iraqi religious extremists.
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